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DrawTheBlock

DrawTheBlock is a collaborative, infinite-canvas pixel editor. The world is divided into blocks you can draw on, claim, and share, and everything you paint lives on one shared canvas that anyone can explore.

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About the Game

One infinite pixel canvas shared live by everyone. Draw with real brushes, no timer on your strokes. Create blocks, claim them, protect your art.

One canvas. Everyone. Live.

DrawTheBlock is a single, infinite-pixel canvas shared by everyone online, divided into 1024 x 1024-pixel blocks. Unlike pixel games where you place one pixel and wait, you get a real brush engine, and your strokes have no timer. Other artists' cursors and strokes appear live as they work, and everything saved becomes a permanent part of a world anyone can wander.

How it works

  • Explore. Pan and zoom across the shared world. The edge sits about nine quadrillion pixels from the origin in every direction, so there is room.

  • Draw. Brush, pencil, fill, and erase on any block that allows it. Your in-progress strokes stream to everyone watching the same area as a live preview.

  • Publish. Edits stay local until you hit Save. Saving makes them permanent for everyone; undo instead, and they never happened.

  • Create. Mint brand-new blocks on empty space with the Create Block tool. Creating is free, with a short cooldown.

  • Own. Buy unowned blocks with credits. Owners decide who may draw on their block: everyone, owner only, or a whitelist of friends. That is how crews hold territory and finished pieces stay finished.

  • Share. Every block and camera view has a deep link. Paste it into Discord or anywhere else and the preview shows the actual artwork at that spot.

Supported Platforms: Windows, Linux, and MacOS

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