I've actually been using this for awhile: http://www.justin.my/draw-something-words/
Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
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Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
#22Real awesome tool, great job Steve.
On a side note though, anyone who seriously uses this tool to play 'Draw Something' is missing out on the concept of the game, which is to use your creativity to draw up something that users can then guess.
If you're using a tool to help you guess a word the correct word, then you're doing the "drawer" a disservice by basically saying to them that their drawing is good enough, when it really isn't... seeing as you couldn't guess what it was.
It's like funding a start up that you know is destined to fail and you keep telling them to keep on keeping on with the doomed idea; or in this case, their crappy drawings that you can't guess!
Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used the frequency lists from Wikitionary for searching an ranking. They've got the 40,000 most frequent words.
The client downloads the current word list from this URL: http://static.iminlikewithyou.com/drawsomething/wordlist.csv I've been meaning to see if I can run a proxy and substitute my own words. EDIT: I personally use wordplay ( http://hsvmovies.com/static_subpages/personal_orig/wordplay/... ) with the -lx flags on this file when I'm stumped
Wow, great find. Obviously using the actual list would be a lot more helpful since they often combine multiple words into one ("lavalamp", "musicbox") and use a lot of very current pop culture references ("lin", "ladygaga"). Definitely a unique dictionary.
Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
#24you should consider allowing users to input all the letters into one single input box, might just a little bit less effort for the users =)
Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
#25Real awesome tool, great job Steve. On a side note though, anyone who seriously uses this tool to play 'Draw Something' is missing out on the concept of the game, which is to use your creativity to draw up something that users can then guess. If you're using a tool to help you guess a word the correct word, then you're doing the "drawer" a disservice by basically saying to them that their drawing is good enough, when…
While I agree with you in spirit, I just want to point out that it's not always the drawer's fault that you don't recognize a pop culture reference ("katniss") or something a bit obscure ("golem").
Also, you might have too much riding on the game if you can use startup funding as an analogy!
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Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
#27Real awesome tool, great job Steve. On a side note though, anyone who seriously uses this tool to play 'Draw Something' is missing out on the concept of the game, which is to use your creativity to draw up something that users can then guess. If you're using a tool to help you guess a word the correct word, then you're doing the "drawer" a disservice by basically saying to them that their drawing is good enough, when…
I think you're sort of missing the point of the game, which is to be a game. If you're cheating anyone, it's yourself. Cheating (unless you're developing the cheat yourself) is almost never fun for more than 3 minutes.
Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
#28500 Server error. That went well.
http://www.omghalp.com/?length=6&char=b&char=a&c... indeed
Unfortunately, that was a bug. If the number of characters you provided was less than the length of the word you gave, the server 500'd.
Oops! Sorry about that, the link should be fixed now!
Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
#29It would be nice if you made the text "Draw Something" in the subtitle link to the app. I didn't know what Draw Something was, but clicked the link anyway, assuming I could figure it out by analogy to hangman and Pictionary by looking at your site's interface. I couldn't; I had to look it up. Possible link destinations: http://omgpop.com/drawsomething http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/draw-something-free/id4886282...
Thanks for the suggestion! Just deployed a new version that links to their page.
Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used the frequency lists from Wikitionary for searching an ranking. They've got the 40,000 most frequent words.
The client downloads the current word list from this URL: http://static.iminlikewithyou.com/drawsomething/wordlist.csv I've been meaning to see if I can run a proxy and substitute my own words. EDIT: I personally use wordplay ( http://hsvmovies.com/static_subpages/personal_orig/wordplay/... ) with the -lx flags on this file when I'm stumped
Wow thanks for the link to the csv. I just pushed a new version that uses that list!