Masterpile: Art Merge

Masterpile is a drop-and-merge puzzle set in a museum gallery.

Aim along the top of a dark-wood jar and let a round painting fall. When two identical paintings touch, they merge into the next one up the ladder, and the pile shifts and tumbles to make room. Keep the jar from overflowing for as long as you can.

Eleven moments in art history, smallest to largest:

1. An ochre cave handprint
2. The Eye of Horus
3. An Ionic column capital
4. A Byzantine gold halo
5. A sfumato smile
6. A blue turban and a pearl earring
7. A water lily in pastels
8. A starry swirl
9. A red, blue and yellow grid
10. A pop-art face in Ben-Day dots
11. A drip-splatter canvas

Make two drip-splatter canvases touch and they burst in a splash of paint that clears everything around them.

Every run paints a picture. Each merge leaves a stain on the linen canvas behind the jar, in the style of the piece you just made. Fill the canvas and it is framed in gilt and hung in your own gallery, saved in your browser between visits. Open any canvas fullscreen and share it as an image.

No words, no numbers. There is no text anywhere in the game. A gallery wall across the top hangs each piece the first time you make it, and a bar fills toward a golden frame as you merge.

Every piece, frame and stain is painted by the game's own code: homages in the spirit of each period, never copies of real artworks. Made for an AI game jam.

Controls

Action	Mouse or touch	Keyboard
Aim	Drag left and right	Left and right arrows, or A and D
Drop	Let go	Space or Enter
Start a new run (after a game over)	Tap anywhere	Space or Enter
Mute	The speaker, top left
Your gallery (pauses the game)	The picture icon beside the speaker	Esc closes it
Look along the gallery wall	Drag up and down
See a canvas fullscreen and share it	Tap it, then the button under it
Throw a canvas away	Hold it and drop it on the trash

Plays in the browser on desktop and phone.