Acolá Live

Draw something with someone somewhere. Someone leaves a drawing half done. You pick it up and add your part. Then it goes back to them. Round after round, until the clock runs out and the two of you are looking at something neither of you would have drawn alone. You will not know who they are. They will not know who you are. That is the fun of it. A cat you started comes back wearing a hat. A house gets a moon. A face you drew carefully turns into a potato, and there is nothing you can do about it, and that is the best part. IT IS SHORT ON PURPOSE Each turn lasts 10, 15 or 30 seconds, and you choose before you start. There is no time to be precious about it, no time to rub everything out and begin again, no time to worry about whether you can draw. You cannot. Nobody can. Go. There is no score, nothing to win, nothing to level up and nobody watching. A few minutes of drawing nonsense with someone far away, and then you close it. THE THREE DOORS Draw first: you start something and leave it for someone to continue. Draw second: you look at what people left half done and choose the one that makes you curious. Practice: you draw on your own, no clock and nobody waiting. This is the quiet one. WHAT YOU DRAW WITH Four brushes that behave like real ones. A round brush that thickens slowly and thins away to nothing. An airbrush that builds up by density instead of edges, so passing twice over the same place makes it darker. A square marker with a flat, even edge. And a chisel nib that keeps one width and changes weight with the direction of your hand. Twelve colours, an eraser that works like any other brush, and two fingers to zoom and turn the sheet while you draw. NOTHING IS KEPT, AND THAT IS THE POINT There are no accounts. No sign up, no name, no email, no photo. Drawings are not stored on any server: they travel between the two devices and disappear when the match ends. The one exception is a drawing that somebody reports, which we keep for ninety days so that a person can look at it. If you want to keep what the two of you made, download it before you leave the screen. Nothing to keep up with, nothing to come back to, no profile getting older somewhere without you. You open it, you draw, you close it. There is no chat: the only thing that travels between two people is drawing. You can leave any match with one tap, and report anything that bothers you, from any screen. For people aged 16 and over.