Silly Mefite, Pix are for Kids!
August 4, 2021 2:11 PM   Subscribe

In-browser JS/HTML Kid Pix, sound effects and all.
Okay, I guess grownups can use it too. posted by subocoyne (21 comments total) 40 users marked this as a favorite
 
This is amazing. I’m definitely going to introduce my kids to this. I was never much of an artist but I LOVED this whenever we got time on computers when I was a kid.
posted by Night_owl at 2:29 PM on August 4, 2021 [2 favorites]


Hours and HOURS of my childhood. These are practically comfort sounds to me. Oh no.
posted by colossal at 2:30 PM on August 4, 2021 [1 favorite]


Oops! Oh no!!
posted by bleep at 2:32 PM on August 4, 2021 [1 favorite]


This is so fun and charming! I wish I'd encountered this as a kid.
posted by Transmissions From Vrillon at 2:41 PM on August 4, 2021


man those Textures are really something. I miss that aesthetic. Actually I miss everything about halftoning and stippling.
posted by Nelson at 2:41 PM on August 4, 2021 [6 favorites]


Still cool.
posted by doctor_negative at 3:19 PM on August 4, 2021 [1 favorite]


now look what you've done

I shared this with friends who are parents and quickly realized I'm the one who is obsessed with it.. how do you reset and wipe it all? and can you change the canvas size?
posted by elkevelvet at 3:19 PM on August 4, 2021 [2 favorites]


nm, I found the dynamite tool
:D
posted by elkevelvet at 3:34 PM on August 4, 2021 [6 favorites]


*incoherent screaming*

I needed this this week. Eeeeeeeeeeee.....
posted by bowtiesarecool at 3:57 PM on August 4, 2021


nm, I found the dynamite tool
This was the only thing I remembered about Kid Pix and I immediately started searching for it. I have vivid memories of just exploding the canvas over and over again in the school computer lab.
posted by forbiddencabinet at 3:59 PM on August 4, 2021 [2 favorites]


Oh, interesting. This wasn't something I was really exposed to as a kid, but fiddling around with it now I can see where Mario Paint (which came out a few years later) definitely took some inspiration from.
posted by Zargon X at 4:04 PM on August 4, 2021


As someone who has used Photoshop for many, many hours, practically every day for the last 24 years there's something really refreshing about this. Made me feel like I was using MacPaint for the first time in 1985 again. And as was said above - I love the textures! I achieve the same effect in a much more convoluted way now, but just clicking and painting them on sure is fun.
posted by acroyear at 4:22 PM on August 4, 2021 [3 favorites]


I love this, but I miss the picture prompts and the pre-drawn coloring pages.
posted by ActionPopulated at 5:35 PM on August 4, 2021 [2 favorites]


Metafilter: nm, I found the dynamite tool
posted by tigrrrlily at 5:38 PM on August 4, 2021 [3 favorites]


As a flying sea otter this really means a lot to me
posted by Riptor at 7:58 PM on August 4, 2021 [1 favorite]


Kid Pix - Wikipedia. Cool, nice thing. A good bit after my Kid time.
posted by zengargoyle at 8:06 PM on August 4, 2021


Oh hells yeah

So it was the 9th grade, and I was in a math & science magnet school - a tiny little thing with, at the time, only 9th graders and 10th graders in it because it had just started up a year ago. We had a nice little lab of Macintosh computers, and someone had discovered that you could log into the science teacher's account really easily because his password was literally something like "password".

Did we hack into his files? Naw. Did we change our grades? Naw.

We played with Kid Pix. Because it was available for the teachers, but it wasn't installed on the lab computers for students.

We got found out, though. It was Parents-Teachers night, and a bunch of us were hanging out in the lab playing with Kid Pix, and one of the 10th graders, this total utter kiss-ass who "worked" at the computer lab, found out what we were doing, and started yelling at us.

Sadly, the science teacher changed his password after that, and Kid Pix was no longer.

(So instead we played with Hypercard. It was Not. The. Same.)
posted by Katemonkey at 1:20 AM on August 5, 2021 [8 favorites]


Uh... to reset to a blank slate, you have to use your web-browsers developer tools and clear the "localStorage" - possibly issuing the following JavaScript command in the console window:

localStorage.clear();
posted by rozcakj at 7:17 AM on August 5, 2021


Huh, interesting mix of original and additions... only the first page of stamps looks familiar, there are twice as many colors as there used to be, and some things seem to be able to do actual gradients. And I miss the Ctrl text version where you could type directly onto the page using the keyboard, using assorted fonts, but that's not the only missing feature at the moment.
posted by one for the books at 8:13 AM on August 5, 2021


ActionPopulated, the color pages are there, unless I'm thinking of something else. It's the mystery function ("?") for the eraser!
posted by Comet Bug at 8:55 AM on August 5, 2021


Reminds me of Tuxpaint, enough so that Tuxpaint may have been influenced by Kid Pix.

Tuxpaint is open-source, but as far as I know isn't available 'web based', so you have to download it.

My kids both grew up with Tuxpaint, and they both went into the arts despite me being an engineer, so:

Curse You Tuxpaint!

(I say that jokingly since, as a father, I worry about their employment prospects).
posted by eye of newt at 4:34 PM on August 6, 2021


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