Snapchat is releasing Bitmoji Paint, a massively multiplayer online painting game
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Today, Snapchat is getting a new original game called Bitmoji Paint. As the name suggests, the game involves Bitmoji â those cutely grotesque customizable avatars â and painting. Itâs Snap Inc.âs second title from its internal games studio, which began putting out games last year. âOur goal with Bitmoji has always been to be the worldâs avatar, to give people a digital version of themselves that represents them and lets them be themselves online,â says Ba Blackstock, co-founder of Bitmoji. âAnd so now with games, itâs also letting people play together in a really new and fun and exciting way.â
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…