Spray Painting Games

Drawing Games

• Drawing games have players use digital spray paint to create pictures on a blank canvas by controlling the paint with their mice. Nick Jr.'s "Free Draw" is a typical drawing game that includes a spray paint option along with other drawing options such as paint, crayons, colored water and sprinkles to create their own masterpieces. "Virtual Spray Paint" has players stand in front of a blank wall and move the mouse to paint. In this game, there is no way to erase mistakes and only one color of paint is available. Tate Kids' "Street Art" provides players with a brief history of street artists, then provides a picture of a brick wall to customize with spray paint.

Online Games

• Some online games use spray painting to help players accomplish specific tasks or acts of vandalism. For example, "Spray Paint: The Statue of Liberty" has players work to do just what the title of the game suggests: spray paint the Statue of Liberty. In Fupa's "Square Attack," players use the space bar to spray a can of spray paint and eliminate floating squares from the board.

Video Games

• Very few spray painting video games exist. Mark Ecko's "Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure," with versions for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Windows, has players act as an up-and-coming graffiti artist. Players compete in tag wars and engage in basic combat to progress through the game. "Jet Set Radio Future" for Xbox is set in Tokyo. Players ride around town on rocket-powered skates, collect spray paint cans and tag as many places as possible as a way of taking back the city for the skater-generation.

Outdoor Games

• Children's toy companies have created outdoor spray painting games and toys to allow children to spray paint in a less permanent manner. Fisher Price's "Motorized Chalk Spray Painter" contains liquid chalk and multiple spray settings for children to create their own spray art on sidewalks and driveways. Crayola's "Sidewalk Paint Sprayer" is similar in nature, but allows children to paint with up to two colors at once and mix those colors for a third color option, whereas the Fisher Price version only allows one color at a time.