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Mimi’s crate has room for a whole new world

Pick Up The Waste is growing: Fan Art is now included in the Steam game alongside Classic! This major update is included for existing Pick Up The Waste owners at no additional cost.

Choose your experience from the shared menu and return to a challenge that is easy to understand and surprisingly tricky to master: place discarded objects, find their balance and keep the pile standing.

A fresh look for Classic

Each of Classic’s 20 levels now has a new backdrop. Mimi and the waste objects have received a visual refresh, sound effects give actions more presence, and the widescreen layout gives the game room to breathe.

You now position the paw with the mouse or arrow keys. Click or press Space to release the item. Find a useful support, anticipate what might tip over and use recycling bonuses at the right moment.

Fan Art: your drawings take the stage

Fans and children drew waste objects at geek festivals and at a leisure centre in Aix-les-Bains, France. Those drawings become the objects Mimi handles in Fan Art.

They are preserved without visual retouching. Every line and every shape belongs to the person who drew it. That is what gives this part of the game its identity.

Explore four modes: Classic, Fan Art, Kids Fan Art and All Fan Art. Their different objects and shapes bring fresh stacking situations and new chances to beat your best score.

More in this update

• 26 Steam achievements covering both experiences, levels, personal bests and recycling.
• Your choice of English or French interface.
• A shared soundtrack based on my original compositions, rearranged and extended.
• Refreshed menus and sound effects, audio settings and an option to quit the game.

Two games I created, now brought together

I designed and programmed both original games, Pick Up The Waste (Classic) and Pick Up The Waste: Fan Art. For this major update, I used ChatGPT’s assistance to bring them together in one application and update their PC presentation for a horizontal layout. The original music compositions and my original drawings are also my own work. Fan Art’s waste objects remain the participants’ authentic drawings, without visual retouching.

Thank you to everyone who contributed a drawing, tried the game at a festival or followed its development. This update brings those encounters together in one adventure with Mimi.

Download the update, choose Classic or Fan Art and tell us about your most unlikely stack in the comments!

Christophe — RIVARDUS