What is Colorway Antics?

Colorway Antics is a VR painting and colour-play experience from Mīharo Innovations — a New Zealand innovation lab driven by a mission around wellbeing, community and social impact. The concept is irresistibly simple: every scene starts completely black and white, and you fill it with colour using four different tools, flying freely through the space as you work. Six distinct worlds await your artistic interpretation, from an underground cave to outer space.

Where apps like Kingspray or Graffism focus on realistic spray-can simulation for graffiti artists, Colorway Antics takes a broader, more joyful approach — closer to a 3D colouring book than a street art simulator. That distinction is what makes it so well-suited to schools: it is genuinely accessible to any age, rewards creative exploration over technical skill, and provides the immediate sensory satisfaction of colour flooding into a monochrome 3D world around you.

Update 1.1 added two mini-games — Splash & Splatter (compete vs an AI drone to cover the most surface area before time runs out) and Color Codebreaker (a colour-based memory and bomb-defusal challenge). You can also export finished scenes as 360° images and save multiple versions of each world to return to and continue.

Four Tools, Six Worlds, Endless Colour

The cave world is included in the free demo — so students can try before you buy. Each world can be saved at any point and multiple save versions kept. Your artwork can be exported as a 360° image and shared or printed.

New Mini-Games

School & Education Value

Colorway Antics is one of the most genuinely inclusive VR apps available. Its simple, intuitive tools require no prior experience, no reading ability beyond colour selection, and no technical understanding — making it highly accessible for SEND learners, younger children, students with limited VR experience, and anyone for whom creative expression in other media is challenging. The colour-flooding experience is immediately joyful and satisfying, making it an excellent wellbeing tool. For Art and Design, it supports exploration of colour, composition, spatial arrangement and mark-making in an immersive context that flat media cannot replicate. The mini-games (Color Codebreaker) offer additional cross-curricular value into colour theory, memory and pattern recognition. The free demo (cave world) lets you try before purchasing — recommended for any school before committing to the full game.