drawai

Procedural doodle characters, drawn as if by hand on cream paper, rigged one part per bone so they can be animated and used later in games.

Adding a part type? Read ARCHITECTURE.md.

python3 serve.py

• index.html — the menu, and the only place the scenes are linked from: no scene links to another. The three games get the same card on it.
• orla.html — the class photo: pick five children of ten and the photo is scored like a poker hand.
• game.html — Kindergrimm: a baby school in the dark.
• marbles.html — Marbles: a long sheet of ice with a tide walking down it. Pull one of your three living marbles back and let go — it crushes what it rolls over, hooks the way that marble hooks, and wherever it stops it fights on its own until it melts. Hit your own marbles on the way and they go off, and go flying.
• editor.html — one face, click a part to tune it, reroll or lock parts, seed and medium selectors, animation toggles.
• crowd.html — a 7×5 page of living faces, no editing. Click a face and it is someone else; R draws a new page.
• items.html — the toy shop: every object family × every rank, the contact sheet the art gets reviewed on.

How it fits together

A face is a recipe: {seed, media, color, parts:{...}}. It is the only state — the same JSON always redraws the same face, so a face can be saved, shared and rebuilt inside a game at runtime.

• src/sketch.js — the hand. Strokes are filled ribbons with wobble, dry granulation and overshoots; fills are techniques (hatch, scribble, stipple, graphite, wash, oil daubs, chalk, marker).
• src/media.js — what the character is made of. A medium answers tone / skin / edge, so parts describe shapes and never pick a technique.
• src/species.js — what animal it is. A species is a table of loaded dice (dog → floppy ears, snout, spots, no hair), not new drawings, so adding one is data only.
• src/layout.js — every measurement two parts have to agree on: the head outline, the eye anchors, the body block.
• src/parts/*.js — one file per feature family (skull, eyes, mouth, hair, horns/ears, body, extras). parts/index.js is the registry: the ordered list of what is switched on.
• src/rig.js — recipe → bones → meshes. Generic: it knows nothing about eyes or arms, so adding a part never touches it.
• src/anim.js — boil, blink, gaze saccades, talk, sway and breath. Eyes pre-draw six states, so a glance is a texture swap.
• src/crowd.js — the crowd, plus the life director that makes one character glance, mutter or throw an emote every so often.

License

Public domain, under the Unlicense — use it anywhere, for anything, no strings. Attribution is not required, but a link back is always appreciated.