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This is a drawing toy that takes some inspiration from kidpix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Pix). It makes amusing (to me anyhow) noises, has some goofy brushes and stamps.

You can't save your pictures or print them out, and I haven't gotten around to figuring out some happy medium of using canvas and doing a flood fill.



Love it. This whole thread is just total and utter madness. Everyone here has the most esoteric projects I would never have imagined.

p.s. the regular pen drawing sound on your app has the background noise in it as far as I can tell. Have you tried it with noise removal? It might make it better, it also might make it less charming, I don't know!


It does, but finding appropriately licensed foley samples that also sound ok in a loop is more challenging than I would have expected. Plus, my sound editing skills are minimal

My biggest beef with the sounds, tbh, is that I need to master them all to about the same volume. I think the drawing sound is a bit quiet, or maybe my button clicks and stamp sounds are loud.

Or maybe I should break down and get a microphone and find the sound I am thinking of


You're welcome to send them all to me, I've got an Adobe Audition subscription.. I can do noise removal and renormalize them all to the same volume. Send me an email: hello@qingcharles.com


I would at least consider changing the sound. Found the current one particularily grating.


TIL Kid Pix was developed by Broderbund


Broderbund was knocking it out of the park in the '80s and '90s


I love the sound effects


Thank you, means a lot that you took a look.

These were hand selected with a focus group consisting of a 4 year old and 6 year old, so pretty demanding UAT on that front




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