ArtClash: Your Daily Dose of Creative Competition (Early Access)
ArtClash isn't Sketchbook, Photoshop, Procreate, or Infinite Painter. It's something new. Designed to inspire daily drawing, sketching, and cartooning practice, ArtClash is a work in progress currently in early access. The core game is complete, with more features on the way.
Challenge yourself by choosing topics (from single words to complex phrases), setting optional constraints (time limits, color palettes, canvas size), and creating artwork. Earn points when others correctly guess your creations!
This solo project was initially created for personal practice, but now aims to foster a creative community.
Current Features:
- Versatile Painting Tools: Sketch, paint, and blend with ease.
- Image Import & Reference: Use images as references or paint directly over them.
- Competitive Drawing Games: Choose topics, constraints, draw, and earn points based on correct guesses.
- Adjustable Difficulty: Six levels of topic difficulty, ranging from single words to five-word phrases.
- Extra Point Challenges: Three constraint options (time, colors, canvas size) for bonus points.
- Free Drawing & Sharing: Create and share your artwork freely with others.
- NSFW Filtering: Control the visibility of NSFW content.
Early Access Limitations:
- UI Refinement: The current UI is undergoing a redesign for improved responsiveness and aesthetics.
- Canvas Size Optimization: For optimal performance on lower-end devices, keep canvases under 1024x1024 pixels. Larger canvases may significantly impact performance.
Future Updates:
- Expanded Game Modes: New game modes are planned, starting with a drawing-based "telephone" game.
- Enhanced Social Features: Improved social features including avatars, comments, friend lists, and follow options.
- Performance Enhancements: Significant improvements to the UI and brush engine for faster performance.
- Advanced Editing Tools: Addition of a marquee selection tool and transform tool.
- Customizable Brushes: Support for user-created and shared brushes.
- Improved Layer System: Enhancements to the layer system, including features like locking transparent pixels and masking.
- Community Feedback System: A dedicated feedback system for feature requests, bug reports, and community voting on future updates.
- Moderation System: Implementation of a moderation system to manage flagged content and community issues.
- User-Submitted Content: Allow users to submit topics and constraints for community consideration.
- Long-Term Vision: Future plans include full image editing, animation, scripting, and game/storyboard prototyping capabilities.
Currently, ArtClash prioritizes social competition and creative encouragement over full image editing capabilities. This is due to performance limitations with large textures and the lack of advanced editing features in this early access release.
Tags : Art & Design
