Different Strokes

Different Strokes is an online collaborative painting game set in an ever-expanding gallery. A conceptual artist friend invites you to their exhibition, where visitors are drawing on the displayed canvases and over one another’s work. You explore the gallery, paint on blank canvases, edit other players’ art and rate finished paintings.

Create and edit art

All the art in the game is created, remixed and rated live by other players, then loaded dynamically. Paintings can be edited by other players, and you can rate completed work.

The galleries

Alongside the main gallery, a portal leads to the Gallery of the Week, which features a new theme each week. Paintings have a share-link button that opens a web page for sharing them with people outside the game.

Accounts and likes

You can play without an account or create one. When logged in, paintings you create or edit display your username, which other players can click to view your paintings. You can use a separate username and password across the Itch.io and browser versions, or log in with a Steam account that remains tied to Steam. The logged-in screen shows notifications when other players like your paintings and the total number of likes they have received.