The election map game: a guide to playing political pixel war

What is an "election map game"?

An election map game is a real-time multiplayer game played on top of a country's political map, where each player picks a party color and paints pixels to claim territory. It combines the addictive cooperative tension of r/place with the recognizable geography of an electoral map. Huepire is the most active example, with Türkiye and Germany live and the United States coming next.

Why parties instead of free colors?

r/place, wplace and pxls.space all let you pick any color from a wide palette. Huepire deliberately limits you to one of the actual parties of the country whose map you are playing. This single design decision changes everything: the game stops being individual self-expression and becomes a team sport. The moment you pick "CDU black" or "CHP red" or "Democrat blue" you have joined a side, and every pixel you paint either defends or attacks something a real political faction would care about.

How a match works

There is no match — Huepire is persistent. Pixels you paint today are still there next week. Each map has thousands of pixels (Türkiye has about 54,000, Germany about 28,000) and regions (provinces, states, Bundesländer) are owned by whichever party has the plurality of pixels inside the region. The leaderboard updates in real time as borders shift.

The 30-second cooldown

You can paint one pixel per 30 seconds per map. This is the most important rule in the entire design. It makes mass clicking useless, makes coordination essential, and gives the game a slow news-cycle rhythm: you check in, see who attacked your border, paint your pixel, and check back in a minute.

How to play well

1. Pick a side. Half the fun is rooting for a color.
2. Find your community. Most parties have a Discord or Twitter that coordinates pixel placement.
3. Paint borders, not interiors. A pixel deep inside your own territory does nothing; a pixel on a contested border flips the region.
4. Defend before you attack. If your party just lost a region, retaking it is usually higher value than capturing a new one.
5. Be patient. The map is months old, not minutes.

How Huepire compares

| Game | Map | Colors | Persistent | Regions | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | r/place | Blank canvas | Many | No (event-based) | No | | wplace | World map | Many | Partial | No | | pxls.space | Blank canvas | Many | Yes | No | | Huepire | Country maps | Party-only | Yes | Yes |

If you want to express art, use wplace or pxls. If you want to play a political team game where territory matters, Huepire is built for that.

Where to start

Türkiye and Germany are live. USA is coming next, followed by France, the UK and a global map. Start at /play/turkey or /play/germany — Google login, pick a party, paint your first pixel in under 10 seconds.