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 ancient Japanese art of marbling ink on water, made playable. Drop concentric rings of sumi, indigo and crimson; comb the surface into flowing waves; and draw a stylus through the water to open blossoms — then lift the paper to capture your print. A meditative fine-art puzzle built on a real deterministic marbling engine (every tool is a closed-form fluid transform), so the title screen marbles its own masterpieces. Twelve master prints across three chapters, a koto score, a mounted atelier gallery, and a free studio. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
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TESSERA
The craft of Byzantine mosaic, made playable. Read the sinopia underdrawing, nip smalti square or wedge at the hammer, and drag glowing courses of glass along the flow lines — outlines before ground, the true andamento. Grout the finished panel, polish it to a shine, and watch the gold catch the lamplight. Built on a deterministic laying engine, so the title screen sets its own masterpieces and the demo is the regression test. Twelve panels across Roman floors, the gold ground of Ravenna and the starry vault, with an apse gallery of your finished work. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript.
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AINA
A fine-art light puzzle in a mirror palace at night. Tap to set silvered mirror tesserae on the diagonal and bend a warm candle's beam through the hall until every glass lamp is lit. Twelve chambers across three chapters — the Antechamber, the Court of Mirrors, and the Dome of Light — introduce amber, rose and jade beams, fixed mirrors and carved columns, up to a six-lamp finale. A deterministic beam tracer makes the title screen a live āina-kāri demo on the real renderer, and a Hall of Mirrors remembers every chamber you light. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex250
NACRE
A fine-art raden (mother-of-pearl inlay) puzzle. Lay iridescent shell into black urushi lacquer, partitioning each panel into galaxies that are perfectly point-symmetric about their pearl seeds — a serene Tentai Show deduction. Solve it and a togidashi polish sweep crosses the panel: nacre shimmers, concentric rings radiate from every seed, and the pearls bloom. Twelve uniquely-solvable panels across three lacquer settings, a live arcade demo, and a Cabinet of all you inlay. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
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KAKEHASHI
A serene fine-art Bridges (Hashiwokakero) puzzle in a night water-garden. Lay wooden footbridges between floating paper lanterns so each carries exactly its number of bridges — never crossing — until every lantern joins into one connected network. Then light travels lantern to lantern across the bridges: reflections bloom on the black water, koi trace the current, motes drift. Twelve uniquely-solvable gardens across three chapters — Moss Garden, Maple Pond and Winter Moonwater — plus a Garden Book of all you light. The title screen is a live demo. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex210
ORRERY
A fine-art celestial-instrument puzzle. Wire an antique brass orrery: each engraved body must carry exactly its number of rods, and every body must link into ONE connected train, no rod crossing another — the bridges rules of Hashiwokakero. Complete the linkage and the mechanism engages: the armillary rings spin up, the bodies light, and the heavens turn. Twelve uniquely-solvable sky-charts across three chapters — the Astrolabe, the Armillary, and the Great Orrery — plus an Observatory of every mechanism you set turning. The title screen is a live maker's demo. Pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex210
FILIGREE
A fine-art goldsmithing puzzle. Bend one unbroken gold wire into the single closed loop that runs STRAIGHT through the pearl granules and KINKS 90° around the black gems — the goldsmith's rules of Masyu. Complete the true loop and the piece fires: enamel pours into the cloisons, the gems light, and a polish sweeps the finished jewel. Twelve uniquely-solvable plates across three chapters — the Granulator's Bench, Byzantine Enamel, and the Reliquary — plus a Casket of every piece you fire. The title screen is a live master's demo. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex170
AZULEJO
A fine-art puzzle in the craft of Portuguese tin-glazed tiles. Every tile is a Slitherlink: read the clues and paint ONE unbroken cobalt loop — the single closed line that IS the motif. Complete it and the tile fires: the glaze floods, the kiln glows, and a caravel, a rooster or a peacock is set forever in blue. Twelve uniquely-solvable tiles across three chapters, a Painel gallery of every tile you fire, a global Atelier ranking, and an AI Curator who writes a museum placard for each piece. The title screen is a live master's demo. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
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SUMINAGASHI — The Floating Ink
Suminagashi is the ancient Japanese art of marbling ink on still water, made playable. Drop concentric ink rings, comb the surface into flowing waves, and draw a stylus through the water to open blossoms — then lift the paper to capture your print. A meditative fine-art puzzle built on a real deterministic marbling engine, with twelve master prints across three chapters and a free studio.
KIRIGAMI
The art of the folded, cut paper, made playable. Snip the folded sheet and every cut blooms symmetrically across the creases; match the printed pattern, then watch the waste flutter away to reveal your paper-cut. Built on a real fold-symmetry engine (one snip, mirrored eight ways), so the title screen cuts its own masterpieces and the demo is the regression test. Twelve patterns across three traditions — quarter-fold crests, vermilion cut-pictures, and eight-fold snow flowers — with a koto score, an atelier gallery, and a free studio. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
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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.
CLOISON
A fine-art cloisonné enamel puzzle. Drag gold wire (掐丝) between matching enamel gems until every compartment of a gilt bronze plaque is enclosed — then the kiln fires and the vitreous colour sets in a glowing wash of scrollwork. A connect-the-flow puzzle refined into Chinese metalwork: twelve plaques across three chapters (Lotus Court, Phoenix Hall, Dragon Throne), hand-drawn vitreous enamel and gold wire, cabochon gems, a guzheng score, an atelier gallery of fired works, and a deterministic engine whose title screen fires itself. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex30
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.
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.
Alex70
KUMIKO — The Lattice Joiner
A fine-art kumiko woodworking puzzle. Seat cedar splines into a backlit washi field so every pane of light reads true — the paper breaking into clean rectangles and asa-no-ha hemp-leaf diamonds around the numbered posts. Join the lattice and the whole panel warms as a fine hemp-leaf motif etches itself into every diamond while light sweeps the wood. Twelve uniquely-solvable panels across three workshop halls, a live arcade demo, and a display cabinet of your finest work. A serene Shakashaka deduction game. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex50
SEKITEI
A fine-art karesansui puzzle. Rake the white gravel around moss islets and carved stones until every garden reads true — each islet the size of its stone, the gravel one connected sea that never pools into a solid square. Solve it and the flat sand reorganises into concentric raking currents flowing around every islet while the moss blooms. Twelve uniquely-solvable gardens across three seasons, a live arcade demo, and a Garden Book of all you light. A serene Nurikabe deduction game. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex40
MANDALA
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.
Alex40
EMBERGLASS
The craft of hot glass, made playable in hand-lit pixel art. Gather a glowing gob from the furnace, blow it round, drag the wall to shape it, and roll it in colour to match a master form — then set it in the annealer and watch it cool into translucent, jewel-toned glass. Heat is the clock: shape it before it sets, and don't over-blow or the bubble bursts. Built on a deterministic hot-glass engine, so the title screen blows its own masterpieces and the demo is the regression test. Twelve commissions, three collections, and a glowing vitrine of your work. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript.
Alex30
LUMEN
A fine-art stained-glass restoration puzzle. A shattered cathedral window has had its lead came knocked askew — turn each glass pane to rejoin the tracery, and as the seams reconnect the glass brightens until sunlight floods through and the rose is whole again. Twelve rose and lancet windows across three chapters, hand-drawn antique glass and gothic lead work, an antique glass-bell score, a glazier's gallery of restored windows, and a deterministic engine whose title screen restores itself. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex30
INTARSIA
A fine-art marquetry puzzle. Drag across the cells to cut each veneer rectangle so its area matches the brass pin it covers and the whole panel tiles without a gap — then pieces resolve into grain-matched wood, the seams take a glue-line, the brass polishes, and a French-polish sheen sweeps the finished panel. Twelve uniquely-solvable panels across three chapters — parquet, boulle brass-and-tortoiseshell inlay, and exotic marquetry — plus a Cabinet of everything you have fitted. The title screen is a live joiner's demo on the real renderer. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex20
SHIBORI
The Japanese art of indigo resist-dyeing, made playable. Fold the cloth, clamp the resist over each region, then plunge the whole cloth through the ai vat — deeper with every dip. Clamp on time and a region keeps its shade; miss the moment and the indigo drinks it darker. The fold IS the symmetry, so one clamp blooms a kaleidoscopic pattern across the opened cloth. A real fold-symmetry engine drives it — clamp-then-dip is both demo and regression test. Twelve cloths across three traditions — itajime, kumo, arashi — with a rin-bell score, a cloth gallery, and a free dye studio.
Alex20
SAMPLER
The quiet craft of counted cross-stitch, made playable. Read the counted-thread numbers on each row and column — each an unbroken run of one floss colour, in order — pick a thread, and lay glossy X-stitches into the Aida cloth until the picture appears; then mount it in the hoop. A colour logic puzzle on a real solver that proves every chart has one honest answer, so the title screen stitches its own masterworks and the demo is the regression test. Twelve motifs over three chapters — garden, folk, night — with a music-box score and chalk marks. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex20
MALAM
The Javanese art of batik, made playable. Draw hot wax to seal a colour, dip the whole cloth into the next dye down a deepening chain, then boil the wax away to reveal a symmetric masterwork veined with crackle. One canting stroke blooms across the wallpaper symmetry, so you wax only a single folded motif. Twelve cloths across three traditions — the kawung palm-sugar grid, the ceplok star medallion, and the graded indigo rain-clouds of Cirebon — scored with a gamelan. The deterministic dye engine is both the attract demo and its own regression test. Portrait-first, pure JS, no build.
Alex20
KINTSUGI
A fine-art restoration game about golden repair. Broken heirloom ceramics arrive at your atelier: reassemble each vessel's shattered shards into its silhouette, then trace molten kintsugi gold along every crack so the break becomes the most beautiful part. Twelve heirlooms across three chapters — raku bowls, celadon and cobalt porcelain, Imari and Oribe masterworks — glazed ceramic under warm atelier light, with a vermilion maker's seal, a collection shelf, and a deterministic fracture engine whose title screen mends a bowl by itself. Portrait-first, pure JS, no build.
Alex20