disruption.ca

Last month there was an informal weekend long game development competition that Jay and I were planning on participating in. One of the themes chosen was “anti-text”. The voting was happening in IRC, and Jay suggested that we create a textless IRC. The idea of making something like a web based pictochat was kicked around, and after spending the weekend working on it we ended up with imageboard.net.

We built a site that is like a web based discussion form, except that you draw low resolution pixel art instead of typing text. I made the pixel art application in Flash, and Jay did the backend in Python, as well as the HTML/CSS/Javascript. Our icons on the web interface were contributed by users.

The site has resulted in some awesome pixel art, as well as some really clever image threads. For example, chickenz is one of my favorites.

Here are the top voted images, animations, and threads.

Here are the images that I have signed.

Now that you are done reading this, go draw something. The site is more interesting when more people are playing with it.