Today, Snapchat is getting a new original game called Bitmoji Paint. As the name suggests, the game involves Bitmoji \u2014 those cutely grotesque customizable avatars \u2014 and painting. It\u2019s Snap Inc.\u2019s fourth title from its internal games studio, which began putting out games last year. \u201cOur goal with Bitmoji has always been to be the world\u2019s avatar, to give people a digital version of themselves that represents them and lets them be themselves online,\u201d says Ba Blackstock, co-founder of Bitmoji. \u201cAnd so now with games, it\u2019s also letting people play together in a really new and fun and exciting way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bitmoji Paint places players on a gigantic, pixelated grid, and lets them paint those squares as a shared canvas. Zoom out, and you get pixel art. You get there by pressing the rocket icon or through search; the first thing you\u2019ll see are floating islands in space, which are different servers you can join with hundreds of other players. There are three modes \u2014 move, paint, and map \u2014 and users can also interact with other players around the world using stock emotes. There\u2019s also a voice chat function in Snap\u2019s game menu so you can talk to your friends while you\u2019re scribbling. Creations persist, so you can keep working on the things you\u2019ve started.
\u201cA lot of the playability in the game is things like simple scribbles,\u201d says John Imah, head of games and entertainment partnerships at Snap. \u201cYou can send fun messages, and also even [make] giant landscapes, all these things are all possible in Bitmoji Paint.\u201d He\u2019s been playing the game for a while now and says he\u2019s excited for the world to see it, and then to see how people have fun with it. (As far as moderation goes, players can\u2019t see each other\u2019s Snap IDs unless they\u2019re already friends, and the company emphasized that it\u2019ll provide easy access to reporting tools.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Snap has used games and unique filters to pull people into its app and stand apart from competitors like TikTok and Instagram. Its recent anime lens went viral outside the app and was used 3 billion times in its first week. That said, to hear Imah tell it, the games program has already been a big success. \u201cTo date, we\u2019ve had more than 100 million Snapchatters play our games, which we\u2019re incredibly proud of,\u201d he says. \u201cAn average of 20 minutes are played per player every day, when they\u2019re playing Bitmoji Party,\u201d Imah says. Sounds like Bitmoji Paint has some large shoes to fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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