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24 alternatives to A collaborative pixel drawing game for when you're bored
Hello HN. This is a project me and some friends built at university in 2017. It was originally built in a rush, but we've added a few improvements over the years. It's a fun game to host at a demoparty and project on a big screen - We did that at Instanssi many times. The implementation is still rough, and suffers from the fast pace of the modern web - The frontend is likely very outdated, and the backend is built with Vapor 2 and Swift 3.1, both no longer supported. You can host this yourself, but it might be a bit of a pain to set up. The WebSocket protocol is fairly trivial to work out…
A collaborative pixel drawing game built by university students in 2017 where multiple players draw on a shared canvas together. Originally created for displaying on large screens at demo parties, it allows groups to… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A collaborative pixel drawing game for when you're bored launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Here▲304Hang out and collaborate over video on a real-time canvas
2020 · here.fm · its alternatives →
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Create pixel art live with friends
2022 · pixelart.liveblocks.app · its alternatives →
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Hey, I'm the co-founder of Magma and coded huge chunks of the product. My other co-founder Radek coded the collaborative drawing engine in Typescript with parts in Web Assembly and also using WebGL - that's why it has a native app feel. If you have an iPad or a Wacom tablet we support pressure sensitivity (enable Windows Ink if you have issues). We prepared 10 drawings that you can join. Beware that there is a 30 users (drawing at once) limit on each. You can easily create your own drawing and share the url with others to join. https://magm.ai/k36k…
2022 · magmastudio.io · its alternatives →
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Everyone Draw▲258Draw art with people around the world on an infinite canvas
2024 · everyonedraw.com · its alternatives →
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ScribbleX - A social drawing game
2020 · scribblex.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…
2024 · 5-million-devs.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, We’re Philip, Amby, and Declan, and we made “multiplayer virtual computers” that you can embed anywhere, including 3D spaces. We decided to build this because we noticed that embedding third-party apps and websites can be a nightmare due to incompatible platforms, security issues, and poor UX. Adding multiplayer functionality to these embeds makes this problem exponentially more difficult. On the backend, we’re spinning up a VM and running a resource-optimized fork of Chromium which we then stream to participants via WebRTC. Since we’re hosting the servers running the applications,…
2022 · threejs-example.hyperbeam.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · awwapp.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · audenneedham.com · its alternatives →
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It requires no registration, no installation, and no configuration. Just run it on any computer and start drawing freely.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · wefiddle.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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Draw.Chat▲140Anonymous real-time whiteboard with text and video chat.
2017 · draw.chat · its alternatives →
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ScribbleX▲98Social drawing game to create some art together with friends
2020 · scribblex.com · its alternatives →
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Still very much a work in progress, but really wanted to share this even in it's early state. Had heaps of fun building it to learn more about WebRTC.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…
2022 · battle-of-flags.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · wbo.openode.io · its alternatives →
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Dibulo▲83Hi HN community! Proud to have recently become a founder myself and now to submit a "Show HN". We are Dibulo, a young startup which is on a mission to redefine coloring sessions for kids! We have built our first worlds, sold our first coloring books and now we want to let the world know about us :) So far we have been praised by parents, and also got pretty good feedback from institutions like daycares and elementary school teachers. What sets our coloring experience apart? Not only do we bring vibrant templates on paper to life on screens, but we also introduce a captivating group activity.…
2023 · dibulo.com · its alternatives →
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Photobomb▲84just shipped my first ios game: photobomb, a party game for 3–8 players. similar to cards against humanity one player gets a prompt (ex: "bad posture"), everyone else digs through their camera roll to find the best matching photo under 40 seconds. The prompter picks their favorite photo and the player with that chosen phot wins the round, and you rotate until everyone's been the judge. bonus: if your photo gets screenshotted during the gallery , you score extra point. ;) its free, just need three friends and photos to share
May 2026 · photobomb.online · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built the first version of Drawize back in late 2016 specifically for a Samsung Tizen OS app contest. I crunched and built the whole thing (including the real-time multiplayer engine) in under 4 weeks. It didn’t win anything in the contest. Since it was built with web tech anyway, I published it on the open web in early 2017 just to see what would happen. It started living its own life, and today — 8 years later — the database processed the 100,000,000th drawing. On the busiest days it’s been 30k+ active users, and storing 100M drawings currently sits at ~3.16 TB. The milestone…
Dec 2025 · drawize.com · its alternatives →
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Join us in SF or online on October 22
2022 · nextjs.org · its alternatives →
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Hey folks — here’s a small experiment I hacked together over the weekend: https://cleoselene.com/ In short, it’s a way to build multiplayer games with no client-side game logic. Everything is rendered on the server, and the game itself is written as simple Lua scripts. I built this to explore a few gamedev ideas I’ve been thinking about while working on Abstra: - Writing multiplayer games as if they were single-player (no client/server complexity) - Streaming game primitives instead of pixels, which should be much lighter - Server-side rendering makes cheating basically…
Jan 2026 · cleoselene.com · its alternatives →
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:fireworks: Draw pixels on a canvas with friends. Contribute to olahol/pocketplace development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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