Different Strokes
🖼️ Everyone's favorite collaborative online painting game! 🖌️
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⭐ Deluxe Edition ⭐
To help pay for server costs we have introduced a Deluxe Edition that includes several special features: 9 exclusive colors! smaller brush sizes brush smoothing straight line tool canvas zoom studio room for viewing your paintings/liked paintings painting easel for saving draft paintings We really need your support to keep this game running so we hope you'll consider making this one time donation to unlock the latest features!
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 artwork that is, intentionally or otherwise, truly awful.
- Explore a never-ending, 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 and 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 fix the (inevitable) unacceptable art!
In addition to the main gallery there is also a portal to the "gallery of the week". Every week there will be a new gallery with a particular theme. The main gallery is pretty crowded so your art may have a better chance of standing out in the gallery of the week!
Controls
- WASD - Move
- E - Interact
- Space - Jump / Skip dialog
- B - Brush Tool
- G - Paint Bucket Fill Tool
- CTRL+Z - Undo
- ESC or P - Settings Menu
- [ or ] or mouse wheel - Change brush size
Credits
- Unity Programming - Scott Steffes
- Art - Rincs
- Network Programming, SFX, Graphic & Interior Design - Jasper Stephenson
- 3D Modeling - Cless Aurion
- Music - Alucard
Download
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Development log
- Critical Update, Download Immediately!Apr 01, 2026
- Many Small UpdatesJul 14, 2025
- New Game BuildMar 31, 2024
- Finishing Kingdom of NightJan 30, 2024
- Breaking Changes, Android APKNov 11, 2023
- Mobile SupportJul 17, 2023
- New Server build, requires downloading latest build of the game.Feb 05, 2023
- Itch.io version updated to match Steam versionNov 16, 2022
Comments
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There is nothing wrong with a female nipple, this is sexist.
i love it i got to see so much good art and i drew Pierrot from the freak circus
I can’t submit Paintings.
I can’t blame the Dev for paywalling the essential Feature of the Game because of previous nasty Edits.
I’m really impressed it’s just one Payment, not repeat.
It’s a Miracle that this doesn’t need continuous financial Support from every Player, unlike many other Multiplayer Online Games.
yo bro i used the horse to enter deluxe area
pls dont add a invis barrier to enter tha area or ban me
pls?
i love this game!!! im not very good at it though cuz i lwk cant draw using a mouse..... BUT IM OBSESSED!!!!! (if u see Urlocalweirdos art... thats me!!)
True. Some people are VERY good!
However there's a technique for even the artistically challenged... it won't get you votes, but it can be fun to mess around.
I've found that if you scribble all over the canvas in black, then swap to white scribble, then switch back and forth; you will make a mess, sure, but in those lines you might be able to 'see' an image of something (as the brain likes to find patterns as with Pareidolia). When you can see the outline of something in the messy environment, use your brush to enhance what you see so it looks more like what your brain thinks it should be.
A finished subject amidst a mess of random chaos ends up appearing in a grimy dreary dangerous aesthetic with horror feels. That's something one can make with only a mouse at least.
smarttttttt i might use that technique now 😉
One word of warning... keeping an open mind to find possible images is very useful; but also, you should also take regular breaks.
The mind can obsess when one finds mastery with a new thinking pattern. Pareidolia is great for being artistic, but it can be annoying when you can make out shapes in real life. (I think that's what Jonathan Blow was commenting on in the final scene of the game 'the witness'. In his case, it was about habitual application of pattern recognition rather than Pareidolia, but the same theme holds true.)
HAH love this game! (mines on the right, its just funny seeing my drawing next to the gorgeous drawing)
does anyone else get this issue where whenever they stop moving their mouse, their player characters automatically starts turning their head downward until they're looking directly at the ground? im trying to do the get to the top challenge and i think my character trying to look down is nerfing me
it won't let me play- maybe cause I'm on mobile ima try logging back in on my tablet
i am now addicted to this game,, 10/10 would recommend!
how to change the colors?
i loved it!!! i adore the weird n quirky stuff and ghosts in the gallery!! it gives me some fear but is also really relaxing
unbelievable game!
my laptop is about to die, so while i was on a blank canvas drawing a pigeon, I clicked cancel instead of upload thinking that, that was how to let others edit the canvas, all my progress is gone ripppp :')
incredibly fun!!
This is one of the coolest projects I've ever seen on Itch.io
Love this idea and love seeing the art!
well its quite interesting that this game is considered malware onmy chromebook..
uh oh
Okay..uh..thats uhm..interesting 😅
Craziest painting I have found so far: https://www.differentstrokes.xyz/view/1702831111@5103372
just wow we have some true talent in this game.
okay, so i'm not supposed to shoot it.
how do i reset from game over screen
Any tips for finding The Tower?
Nvm, found it!
What are the controls on mobile?
i'm suddenly having an issue on mobile?
i zoom in, and suddenly the game doesn't let me color the canvas. not even with the paint can.
edit: i can still draw and zoom if it's paintings in my studio.
its possible to crack the free version to get the deluxe things i believe
How
Yes, tell us! We gotta know!
if the features are at all in the files for the game, someone could theoretically reverse engineer it and unlock it, not sure but if the colours or other features almost at all are there it's possible.
and also, I have a place in the main hall FOREVERR!!!
dude has nobody pressed f or went through the portal?
F pulls out a fishing rod, and the portal takes you to a place you can fish at!!!!
Uh... Horsy with hat is fun!
How find artist of arts in game
Mobile bug- cant hop off horse... unless you spam you phones back button, wierd
My contribution <3
Is there any visual indicators that hint at where I should jump next to Get To The Top?
*Edit*: Nevermind, figured it out right after commenting lmao
Found the party room
how do you get to it? i've spend months (if not a year) trying to
Idk i just stumbled into this statue that asked if I wanted to party.
Follow the floating gems. If you don't know what I am talking about, just run around the gallery, you will eventually.
Is anyone else unable to install the deluxe version using the itch.io app? I know it's possible, I've done it in the past, but after resetting my computer and reinstalling the itch app it just doesn't show the deluxe version in the install options.
i did
How?
what i remember was going too paid versions on ythe app then i had too do all this stupid verifying
hi- i don't know what is occuring, but nothing will load, can someone explain how to fix this? i tried downloading, reloading page, restarting, nothing literally everything is blank, every door everywhere? -
the same thing is happening again, idk bug maybe? cuz apparently its not happening to everyone
oh well ty :)
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