Different Strokes by Scott Steffes
Different Strokes has released on Steam! Get it here!
Your friend, a conceptual artist, has invited you to their latest exhibition.
You enter expecting to see their art adorning the walls, but to your surprise, the VISITORS are the ones drawing the art — they're even drawing over each other's work! It's up to you to protect the exhibition from being covered in questionable art (though it's inevitable).
- Explore a neverending, ever-expanding gallery full of user-generated art — and snarky guests!
- Add a new layer to art that needs a redo!
- Draw new art to fill the exhibition!
- Rate art to boost the good and hide the bad!
All of the art exhibited in the game is 100% created, remixed, and rated LIVE by other players. Yes, we host all of this art and load it in dynamically. We hope that you will choose to cover up / downvote the (inevitable) unacceptable art!
🎮 Play it! →→ HTML5 Player ←←
Controls
- WASD - Move
- E - Interact
- Space - Jump / Skip dialog
Credits
- Unity Programming - Scott Steffes
- Art - Rincs
- Network Programming, SFX, Graphic & Interior Design - Jasper Stephenson
- 3D Modeling - Cless Aurion
- Music - Alucard
💬 We started a Discord Server!
Feel free to join to share your work, your favorites, and talk with other players/artists! 🖌️
We also made a website for the game. 😎
New version!
- Added Undo (ctrl-Z) support
- Added Paint Bucket Fill tool
- Added "Share Link" button that gives you a URL to keep track of paintings.
- Added brush size indicators
- Added Settings Menu (press ESC or p)
- Scroll to change brush size
- New server architecture
- Performance improvements
Thanks so much for playing, everyone! Everyone's paintings managed to slow down our servers enough to necessitate a rewrite, which I count as a good thing. Happy painting! 👩🎨
Ratings
| Overall | 3th | 4.533⭐ | 336🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 24th | 4.251⭐ | 338🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1th | 4.776⭐ | 339🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 911th | 3.468⭐ | 334🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 109th | 4.442⭐ | 336🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 55th | 4.204⭐ | 328🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 100th | 4.061⭐ | 328🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 19th | 4.495⭐ | 334🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 29🗳️ | 28🗨️ |
The game itself does an outstanding job of not getting in the way of the art. It is itself artistically very compelling, with the white rooms and sketch-style display. I spent moments here and there enjoying the game's graphics, but it left all the room needed for me to shift my focus and enjoy the art. The way the rooms slide into place was another nice touch. I read it as an indication that the game was loading new content, and it helped me to understand the space was infinite and not to bother searching in any systematic way.
The music was another important aspect that did a lot to create a calm, contemplative mood, and I enjoyed it a lot.
Overall this is a killer entry: great concept, wonderful execution. Congratulations!
The first game I will check back onto, since I know there will be other stuff happening in the exhibit. How did you get from the theme to this?
Congrats!! this is amazing, I fixed and voted too many paints haha
Everything from the art style, to the way paintings are displayed, to the music, everything is just perfect!
I have played over 80 sum games at this point, and this is, by far, the most feature complete of them all!
I predict, and this game deserves, to place at very top of this Jam!
I even made my logo in game!
This game is such an enjoyable and relaxing experience! Quite the accomplishment!
10/10
I also loved the characters and the art style in the exhibition.
my humble contribution
I've made a sheep egg, hope you like it :)
Brilliant
Graphics are super cute and nice too. This game definitely gets 5 out of 5 stars for me!
Again, weel done all!
I had to be careful streaming it on twitch, lol.
What a unique game, great work! :heart:
It was really fun to go between painting my own paintings, making sure to leave space for improvement and adjustment with the knowledge that someone (hopefully) is going to add to the artwork, and changing the artworks of others. I usually tried to keep the original idea intact but change the art-style to that of my own.
I have some features that I would like to suggest adding: the ability to sign the painting with a username, the ability to report offensive paintings and the ability to inspect a painting again after having exited it (found myself forgetting to check the original and getting curious after having just left the painting).
i have no feedback, but i hope you like my bug i drew
It's unusual for me to spend more than half an hour per game, but this one simply wouldn't let me leave - and I'm sure I'll get back to it over and over again. So much to see, correct or corrupt...
Drawing feels REALLY GOOD and responsive, which I feel is rare for drawing-games (mainly talking about Gartic Phone here). The music really enhances the experience, encouraging to take things easy.
Two ideas I have for the future of this awesome project, which you undoubtedly came across before:
* It would be cool if you could comment on the art, and the visitors randomly choosing one comment on the respective piece. Maybe that would harm the charme of the game though, I don't really know.
* Also, the colour palette could be expanded on, though being restricted to the current palette did make for some creative problem solving!
Thank you so much for this absolute masterpiece! I'm a big fan!
Just the neverending gallery mechanic is impressive in itself. THis is ridicolous to have made over the Jam-time. I am in awe!
Dude, you made a legend! :heart:
I spent more than 3 hours in your gallery now and have created great works of art, destroyed great works of art and made some grand shitposts ( I might have kicked off the Among Us thing yesterday, I'm sorry. )
Only thing I don't get is if Works of art that are rated negatively get improved on again or if they just revert to the original. Sometimes I feel like its the latter, which would be a bit of a shame.
Perfect marks in almost every category if you ask me.
I hope you continue working on this and release it as a commercial product, I would enjoy coming back to it!
The artstyle is really great and effective, and I love the effect of spawning rooms, and the interactions with the NPCs. It really adds to the feeling and I love touches like that, making it more than just the core.
This is one of my absolute facourites so far, really well made and polished.
Awesome work!
I rate this game as FRESH!
Chainsaw Cheerz!
I can't see the theme reflected much, maybe it was more inspired by the ongoing r/place? Nevertheless it is a great entry and a nice footprint of the Ludum Dare community and our time.
PS. Had a crash, WEBGL said it ran out of memory (maybe I should close other game windows, but it might be a problem if the player walks spawns enough rooms).
I drew a pirate with a parrot and a lizard on a hat. Can't find it now. If found, please report it! :(
Strengths:
- A great sense of participation and community
- Overall polish makes for a great experience
- Soothing soundscape
Possible improvements:
- Mouse FPS commands sometimes behave strangely, especially when doing full rotations (angle of view gets reset).
Fantastic job !
Here is a Mondrian, courtesy of my terrible art skills:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g_myz6cCD8
What an unreal experience for a game jam....utterly unreal.
Give your selves some major props, I will be surprised if this doesn't win.
I've been a fan of multi-user online doodling/artwork -apps for more than a decade, so this hits the spot.
You found a good balance in the limitations of the drawing tools and color palette which is important in apps like this.
The changing rooms are a cool gimmick and effectively establish the sense of infinity.
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As others have said, a nice feature would be the chance to find your own work easier.
As of now they get lost in the vastness of the gallery walls, although one could argue that it's somewhat beautiful in a way.
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5 stars for innovation! :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :paintbrush: :pencil2:
So nice to walk around and see all the pictures at this point, some funny, some really nice drawn pieces, but all of them wholesome :) you guys made us the canvas for us to paint on, and it's all thanks to the community as well.
The setting and mood are really great making it chill vibes to walk around in. Also smooth and polished with the movement and camera zoom and what not. You have everything even interesting npc's, I don't know what to give of constructive criticism.
Oh maybe the lack of a button that clears the whole picture when drawing, you have to press cancel and then press 'E' to paint again.
All I can say is amazing job!
Love the game. Such a unique experience. The audio is soothing, it helped me draw something a bit serious instead of something goofy x)The art pieces there are astonishing, it's insane how beautiful that museum is.
On a frustrating side: I ctrl+Zed a couple of times closing the window....Dunno if there's a way to disable a browser native shortcut but that was ...frustrating.
anw, great great job to you! doing that game in 3 days, hats off.
What a great idea!
Very minor feedback:
Would be nice if the Brush size was visible on your cursor, so you could better know how much of an area it would paint on the canvas
The few points of criticism / changes I hope to see if you continue to develop this project after the jam:
- be able to check up on paintings I participated in
- undo/redo
- being able to press e on a painting after voting on it
But once again, really awesome stuff. I probably spent like an hour just walking around and admiring other's art - and then another hour adding my own. Great job overall.
Thank you for doing this !
Music was perfect and I got lost amongst all the art. Loooved this.
EDIT : I'm going to loose way too much time on this...
Though maybe some minor nitpicks. Some kind of cursor symbol or indicator for how big the paint brush will actually be would be helpful. And sometimes the ghost's dialogue can cover up a painting, though either way, this really is one of my favs this jam. The way the museum even opens up as you keep moving in it, absolutely amazing.
Some of my uploads so far not counting art which I added to lol
I would be afraid to maintain a self-moderated system like this haha!
My only complaint is that I got an "Out of memory" error that would crash the game (web version) 2 times halfway through my paintings :cry: Guess I took to long with my drawings
Anyone can get lost in there trying to view all of the art and with the constant loading of new rooms, it seems like there is no end.
What were you planning to do with this game for the future?
P.S. I had to lol I tried the best I could to get the photo to look the same with your limited palette
And today I came back to find:
Thanks whoever made that, I love it! 🐟
There is a lot of polish applied to this minimal design, and I even loved all the ghosts! Saving and loading persistent artwork on the fly in procedurally generated gallery rooms is also an extraordinary technical feat given the time constraints. Amazing and rich entry!
This really is something special.
I should also mention the excellent art of the game itself! It's simple, but provide a great mood both for creation and contemplation. I like the animation on the rooms generations, and the different visitors and their dialog. It makes it a fantastic virtual museum to visit!
I'm in Germany. As you can see above there are no artworks on the wall. As I said it didn't work as a standalone Windows 10 exe and it didn't work in Firefox. You can try to give me an IP or URL to ping but I can at least reach https://www.differentstrokes.xyz/
In the browser version, if you open the browser console do you have any errors? They'd probably show up in red.
P.S. HTML 5 doesn't show exhibitions :)
Awesome concept