This collaborative doodling website is like Google Maps plus MS Paint

A new website that allows you to paint on a world map with other real -time users has stormed the digital illustration community.

Wplace is a collaborative pixel art platform which serves as a spiritual successor to the experiences of the day of fools R / Place April from Reddit, by placing time restrictions on drawing tools that motivate users to team up to finish large or complex paints. While R / Place provided its users with a virgin white pixel grid, Wplace is superimposed on an interactive canvas of a world map made up of four pixel billions, according to the launch trailer of the site, which gives the impression of a mashup between Microsoft Paint and Google Maps.

Wplace also seems to be a permanent experience, unlike R / Place, that Reddit has only made available for a few days each time it revives the experience. That said, he seems to be trying under the weight of his explosive popularity, limiting his availability.

The WPlace painting aspect is intentionally difficult – new users have a limited pool of 30 pixels that they can place and find a pixel spent every 30 seconds. Although the maximum size of the pool develops, the more you draw, the recharging time remains the same. These limitations mean that wplage users must either operate extremely slowly and hope that no one will weigh their progress, or collaborate in major projects with the help of other users.

This makes some of the extensive paintings that have been shared on social media all the more impressive. The games and content linked to the Fandom seem particularly popular: fans of the NBC television series Hannibal Has strewn images and quotes everywhere in Florence, Italy, which is the framework of some of season 3, while Las Vegas, United States, is covered in tribute to the Fallout Games. Wplace himself also has certain gamified aspects, such as rankings that follow countries painted with the most pixels and which country has the most users who contribute to the world canvas.

The website has attracted more than a million users since Friday. Some functions are currently offline at the time of the declaration; However, with Wplace saying that it is “technical problems”. Existing users can add to the web, but new users are unable to create accounts, and the classification function does not display any information. It is not known when a regular service will be restored, but for the moment, you can always visit the website to scroll through all the works of art that have been placed this weekend.