I've enjoyed the game, but it seems to have a short shelf life. I started playing with about half a dozen co-workers last week, and now almost all of them have quit playing. This may in part be due to a.) not enough words (I'm seeing a lot of repeats), b.) time required to play -- drawing an elaborate picture (or watching it be drawn) takes considerable time (on an iPhone), and I often find myself shying away from th…
"or watching it be drawn" I believe there's a skip button? Never tried pushing it, though.
You send drawing 1 to player B. They watch it being drawn and guess. They send you drawing 2. When you open your app you see drawing 1 happen again and player B making their guess. You can skip that. Then you're shown drawing 2 and can make your guess.
You can "pass" during drawing 2, but that ends the game (streak) between you and player 2.
And though the streak doesn't really matter, it means that, no, you can't really 'skip' watching the other player's drawing stroke-by-stroke. You can only choose to stop playing.
Heh, which I find myself doing frequently. Every time I get to the point where there are no "easy" choices for words to draw, I find myself force-quitting the app, relaunching, and playing a round with someone different, and then coming back to the round I skipped (incidentally, you get offered new word choices in this case). Hard to say whether having a "back" button would end up discouraging people from continuing…
I was frustrated by the new word choices popping up after quitting, actually. I had a pretty awesome drawing, the app crashed, and the new choices were pretty lame. Minor quibble, I know, but it does seem odd that you get new choices just by quitting when they really want you to pay for them.
Yeah, I was wondering how they would have let something like this slip through. I figure either a) they weren't aware of the exploit (unlikely, but possible...Draw Something, while fun, is not a very polished game), or b) they know of the exploit, but fixing it is a non-trivial. I suspect b) because the game does not appear to store any state between the time you start guessing the other player's drawing, and the time you complete you drawing (so it just starts over if the round is interrupted, as if nothing ever happened). So, in order to remember the list of words that was previously presented to you, the game would have to 1) maintain state that indicates which "phase" of each round you are in for a given game, and 2) maintain the original list of words presented to you after you get to the "choose a word to draw" phase. I suspect they just decided that fixing the exploit isn't worth it, because a lot of iOS users don't even know that they can force quit the app, and a lot of the ones who do probably still wouldn't be bothered to actually do it. Also, having to go through the process of watching/skipping the other player draw his picture again can be tedious.
Being able to see your friend's brush strokes as they draw is very cool. It is fun to watch people draw because it is interesting insight into how people think. Also, clues can be given through "actions" this way, e.g. the word "wind" can be clued through the action of the artist, and this information would be lost if users could only see the finished product.
Additionally, the reverse is interesting and fun as well: it is kind of fun to see your friends guess the word in realtime. This way, you get to see what clue in the drawing finally made it click for your partner.
For those having a hard time getting to the article. 1. Watching friends screw up is fun This is genius. Draw Something combines the benefits of asynchronous gameplay (easier to play with friends instead of strangers because they don’t have to be online) with the benefits of synchronous gameplay: watching the action in quasi-realtime. Watching your friends painfully draw a crude Tom Hanks stroke-by-stroke is just goo…
all of my facebook crushes stopped being crushes when I saw them in real life =(
"or watching it be drawn" I believe there's a skip button? Never tried pushing it, though.
You send drawing 1 to player B. They watch it being drawn and guess. They send you drawing 2. When you open your app you see drawing 1 happen again and player B making their guess. You can skip that. Then you're shown drawing 2 and can make your guess. You can "pass" during drawing 2, but that ends the game (streak) between you and player 2. And though the streak doesn't really matter, it means that, no, you can't re…
I think they hit the right compromise here. As you said you can give up and pass on the word. If you get the word early then it shows you the final drawing then moves on to the next turn.
Not allowing someone to skip to the final drawing when they do want to play but can't guess the answer yet is a feature, not a bug. It allows new strategies, like drawing a series of states to show a change. It also gives you a sense of the other person, it's a big part of the fun sense of communication that you get with the game.
A skip button, if added, would be widely used and make the game worse.
"or watching it be drawn" I believe there's a skip button? Never tried pushing it, though.
You send drawing 1 to player B. They watch it being drawn and guess. They send you drawing 2. When you open your app you see drawing 1 happen again and player B making their guess. You can skip that. Then you're shown drawing 2 and can make your guess. You can "pass" during drawing 2, but that ends the game (streak) between you and player 2. And though the streak doesn't really matter, it means that, no, you can't re…
There actually is a "skip watching" button, but it is white on white until the other player colors into that corner. I believe it is in the top left corner.
I've enjoyed the game, but it seems to have a short shelf life. I started playing with about half a dozen co-workers last week, and now almost all of them have quit playing. This may in part be due to a.) not enough words (I'm seeing a lot of repeats), b.) time required to play -- drawing an elaborate picture (or watching it be drawn) takes considerable time (on an iPhone), and I often find myself shying away from th…
"or watching it be drawn" I believe there's a skip button? Never tried pushing it, though.
Sometimes you actually need to watch the entire thing to get it. As in, your word involves some change over time that you want to portray with multiple pages.
I would love to see a comparison to Depict, which was really popular a year or two ago, and now seems much less well known than this "Draw Something" that people started talking about.
(edit: Ugh, and Draw Something apparently has a "choose a username" feature, rather than using your name from Game Center or allowing multiple people to have the same username, so of course someone chose my username, because they knew it would cause a lot of people to try to play games with them.)