Unleash your creativity with ArtClash, a unique platform designed to inspire daily drawing, sketching, and cartooning. Unlike Sketchbook, Photoshop, Procreate, or Infinite Painter, ArtClash is a work in progress that's all about fostering a community of artists who practice and share their work regularly.
ArtClash was born from a one-man project, crafted with love for my wife and me to hone our skills every day, and we want to invite others to join this creative journey. The first game is complete, and we're excited to announce that more features and games are on the way!
Current Features:
- Paint: Enjoy the freedom to sketch, paint, and blend with ease.
- Import Images: Use images as references or paint over them to enhance your creations.
- Interactive Challenges: Select topics or a series of topics, add optional constraints like time limits, color limits, or canvas sizes, and earn points when others guess your artwork correctly.
- Difficulty Levels: Choose from 6 levels of difficulty, ranging from single words to complex combinations of up to 5 different words, including nouns, verbs, places, and time periods.
- Constraints for Extra Points: Opt for time, color, or canvas size constraints to challenge yourself and earn more points.
- Free Drawing: Let your imagination run wild with free drawing and share your masterpieces with the community.
- NSFW Flag: Decide whether to view artwork marked as NSFW, ensuring a comfortable experience for all users.
Early Access Issues/Bugs:
- Ugly UI: The Unity UI has been challenging, but we're planning to switch to XAML for a better, more responsive interface.
- Performance: Keep canvases under 1024x1024 on lower-end devices to avoid slowdowns. We're actively working on optimizing the GPU-accelerated brush engine and exploring other engines for improved performance.
Upcoming Features:
- New Games: We're starting with a "telephone" game using drawings.
- Enhanced Social Features: Customize avatars, add comments to projects or games, and connect with friends and followers.
- UI and Performance Upgrades: Addressing current bugs to deliver a smoother and faster experience.
- Advanced Tools: Introducing marquee selection and transform tools.
- Expanded Brush Library: Adding more brushes and enabling users to share their own custom brushes.
- Improved Layers: Enhancing the layer system with features like transparent pixel locking and masking.
- Developer Communication: Implementing a feedback system for feature requests, bug reports, and community voting on future updates.
- Moderation: Promoting community members to moderators to manage flagged content and maintain a positive environment.
- User-Generated Content: Allowing submissions of topics and constraints for a more diverse and engaging experience.
- Future Developments: Full image editing, animation, scripting, and game/storyboard prototyping capabilities.
While ArtClash is not yet a full image editing suite due to performance limitations with large textures and the current lack of comprehensive editing features, it is optimized for social competition and encouragement. Join us on this exciting journey and let's create and grow together!
