One live world of places we make together
How to play Canvas: your first pixel, home and adventure
Start the free multiplayer pixel-art game, paint safely on phone or desktop, save your progress and find your next project.
Start with something that is yours
Open the live game and choose Your home. Your free homestead includes a starter garden and an enterable cottage. No card is needed. Starter scenery is credited to WeSearch; the marks you add become your contribution. You can also explore the public worlds immediately.
Make a small first drawing
Choose Paint to zoom close enough to work safely, then choose a color. On a phone, tap or drag to paint and pinch with two fingers to zoom. Explore mode lets you move without painting. On a keyboard, arrow keys move your aim and Enter paints. Space-drag pans. Painting is disabled when zoomed out too far.
Know when a mark is saved
The status message confirms saved squares after the server commits them. If the connection changes, the game keeps its saved view and does not automatically replay uncertain strokes. Wait for the live connection before painting again. Undo restores your unchanged squares and keeps newer edits by other artists.
Keep a way back
Use the field kit to create a private explorer recovery key. Store it somewhere private: anyone holding it can act as your explorer. A bookmark in your journal keeps an exact world, coordinate and zoom. You can export a PNG or save an era of a view you want to revisit.
Find your next reason to play
Open Your next move for a short progression path. Name a drawing, visit a new world, build a trail from saved places, or join a crew to make a shared workshop. A rotating creative prompt offers a new small project without a login streak or a penalty for taking a break.
Use the controls that suit you
The field kit includes high contrast, larger text, larger controls, visible keyboard focus and motion preferences. Coordinates and direction buttons are alternatives to dragging. The map has a text view, and nearby drawings and doorways are available as a list.