Art is everywhere. In contemporary culture, there has also been a rise of various games that are related to art. Online platforms have been bringing people from different countries together through the involvement of art. Think of how fun it would be to look at art on the world map — it sounds impossible, but it actually exists!

Wplace (wplace.live) is a site that lets you change the pixels on the world map and edit them, thus resulting in colourful patterns, illustrations, as well as bigger sketches and drawings. Developed by the Brazilian developer Murilo Matsubara, it is a collaborative site that lets the entire internet work on it at the same time. The idea was conceived through an experiment called “r/place” which was started on Reddit and allowed users to select from a varying number of colours and allowed them to edit pixels on the canvas. Ultimately, the end product was drawings of anime characters, national flags as well as some famous paintings.