Fine-art games & apps
Creations tagged fine-art on 8x — every one is playable in the browser and open to remix.
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SUMINAGASHI — The Floating Ink
SUMINAGASHI is a meditative fine-art puzzle about the ancient Japanese craft of marbling ink on water. Drop concentric rings of ink, comb the surface into flowing waves, and draw the stylus to open blossoms — then lift the paper to capture your print. Twelve master prints across three chapters, a koto score, a mounted atelier gallery, and a free studio, all powered by a real deterministic marbling engine. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
UKIYO
A fine-art moku-hanga (Japanese woodblock printing) puzzle. Pull a print by hand: slide each carved block to the kentō registration marks, then rub the baren across the washi and the inked layer blooms through the paper — overprint indigo over safflower and the colours multiply into new ones, exactly as a real ukiyo-e print is built. Twelve prints across three chapters — Birds & Flowers, the Great Waves, and the Floating Moon — with a koto-and-shamisen score, a live print gallery, and a deterministic press whose title screen prints itself. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex360
MANDALA (Remix)
The art of the poured sand painting, made playable. Pour coloured sand into the folded wedge and every grain blooms symmetrically across all the petals at once. Match the printed chart, then watch the finished mandala sweep away to the winds — the ritual of impermanence. Built on a real dihedral-symmetry engine (one pour, mirrored up to twenty-four ways), so the title screen paints its own masterworks and the demo is the regression test. Twelve mandalas across three traditions, with a singing-bowl score, a shrine gallery, and a free sand studio. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
CLAYWRIGHT
The craft of the potter's wheel, in real 3D. Centre the clay, pull the wall up, and shape a spinning vessel to match the ghost of a master form — then fire it and watch the glaze bloom from the kiln. Built on a deterministic throwing engine (every pull and push a pure function of the clay), so the title screen throws its own masterpieces and the demo is the regression test. Twelve vessels across three studios — the everyday table, the celadon studio, and the moon kiln — with crackle, celadon and oxblood glazes, a kiln shelf, and a koto score. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex230