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cross-posted from: !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Wplace is a freemium online game that lets anyone create pixel art on top of a map of the world. I got into it just yesterday (and started a community showcasing the stuff I found). But basically any places with human population are already densely drawn-upon, so I've kinda missed out on a lot of those. If I don't care about the entire world being able to see what I draw, and I just want to be able to collab with a couple of friends and maybe share screenshots, what would be involved in basically making my own private clone of it?

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[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There is !canvas@toast.ooo and it's open source.

https://sc07.dev/sc07/canvas

(There are more clones of r/place after 2016 so maybe other one will be better like OurWorldOfPixels)

If you set a background to your town of choice I would guess it will be close enough for a group of friends.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

This actually looks really promising. The map could easily just be a static image. Thank you for the suggestion, I'll look into it!

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 13 points 17 hours ago

Well it's not open source that I see, so you'll be doing significant development to match it. There are probably place clones that you can use as a start, then tie in OSM. But that's far easier said than done.