The brush
Wide or fine, soft or firm. It runs thin where your hand moves quickly, like a real brush going dry.
A fading-canvas game
Everything you draw washes away.
A quiet drawing game after the old water-painting tablets. You make a mark, it holds for a breath, and then it's gone. Nothing to keep. Nothing to undo.
Draw here — it won't last.
Water on stone
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The idea
A Buddha Board is a slate you paint with plain water. The strokes darken, hold for a moment, and dry back to nothing — so the only thing to do is make the next mark.
This is that, as a game. Whatever you draw begins to leave the moment you set it down, thinning breath by breath until the surface is clean again. You don't save it. You don't undo. You let it go and you begin again — the way monks rake sand or sweep a mandala back into dust.
Zen Mode keeps no score and asks for nothing finished. That's the whole invitation: somewhere on a screen to make something beautiful, watch it leave, and feel lighter for it.
Five surfaces
Each one lets go in its own way.
A surface isn't just a colour — it's a material and a mood, each with its own tools and its own sense of time.
Water on Stone
The classic. Water darkens the stone, then quietly dries away. A soft round brush, and the calmest fade of them all.
brush · dries out
Slow Ink
Dark ink on rice paper. A stroke that thins where the hand hurries and pools where it rests, lingering a little longer before it lifts.
taper · lingers
Zen Sand
A raked sand tray, seen from above. Draw furrows with the rake, press ripples and blooms into the grain. It stays until you smooth it over.
rake · marbles
Glow Trails
Light in colour on a dark field. Bright strokes bloom, then dim and drift off into the dark. The one for playing together.
light · blooms
Chalk on Slate
Dry, dusty chalk on a dark board. A schoolroom hush — soft edges and an unhurried fade.
chalk · grainy
In the hand
Simple tools, a patient practice.
A handful of ways to lay a mark down, or lift one away. Nothing to configure — just pick one up and begin.
The rake
Parallel furrows drawn through the sand tray, wide or narrow — the same gesture that quiets a garden.
Ripples & blooms
Press a motif into the surface as you move — rings spreading like a stone in water, or a small opening flower.
Mandala mirror
Turn on the mirror and a single stroke opens into a whole mandala — the way you'll see the canvas draw itself above.
Something to follow
Faint shapes to trace when you'd like one — Enso, Lotus, Seigaiha, Kolam — there to guide you, gone when you don't.
A living hush
A soft breathing sound underneath, and a whisper that rises and falls with your hand. Never a loop — it's always just now.
Two wings
Sit with it alone, or gather round.
Zen Mode
Just you and the fade.
Draw freely, set the pace of the letting-go, and follow a shape if you feel like chasing one.
- Free draw — every surface, every tool, full screen.
- Mandalas & patterns — Lotus, Seigaiha, Kolam, Enso to practise.
- A shape to follow — a fading guide beneath your hand.
Party Mode
The fade becomes the game.
The disappearing act turns into the rule of play — around one screen, or online with friends.
- Memory — a shape appears, fades, everyone redraws it from memory, then you vote. playable
- Telephone — copy the fading ghost before it's gone; watch it drift down the line. soon
- Co-op — one shared canvas, everyone drawing, no score at all. soon
Where it's at
Made slowly, in the open.
01
● Done
The fading canvas
Free draw, the one dial, five surfaces and a living sound — the whole quiet heart of it.
02
● Done
Mandalas & patterns
The mirror that turns a stroke into a mandala, and shapes to trace or practise.
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◐ Underway
Playing together
Memory is playable now; Telephone and Co-op are on their way, at one screen or online.
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○ Next
Out into the world
Coming to Steam — where playing together, with friends invited, feels most at home.