Michal Ždanský When you think of social games, many people think of actions like Farmville, Mafia Wars, Zynga Poker or maybe Words with Friends. However, a brand new game reigns supreme in the App Store Draw Something, which will awaken the hidden artist in you.
Draw Something became a phenomenon almost overnight. In five weeks, it gained an incredible thirty million users. For example, the popular Instagram needed seven months to acquire such a large number of people. At the same time, this game does not bring anything revolutionary, it is just very addictive in its own way.
It could be described as a mix between Words with Friends (multiplayer Scrabble) and Activities. From the first mentioned game, it takes the multiplayer mode, where you can play several games at once, an almost infinite number. Among the activities, it is one of the pillars of the game - drawing. This is what the whole game revolves around. One player always draws and the other has to find out what the creation means.
You can search for friends to play with in different ways - via Facebook, email address or nickname if you know it, or you can enter a random selection. The game then prompts you to guess or draw. The magic is that you don't just see the finished image, but you see the progress of its drawing. Then you have to build a word from the letter tiles. Even your teammate can watch the recording as you guess the word while drawing. Then he will know exactly at which point you understood what it was about.
The drawing editor is very simple. In the top bar, you have an offer of several basic colors, which you can gradually expand by purchasing with coins that you get for guessing. However, the creators did not forget to use the microtransaction system, and you can also buy coins for real money. Fortunately, you won't need this option, you get 400 coins at the beginning, then you give 250 for the color pack.
At the bottom of the screen, you choose the thickness of the pencil or eraser. No shading or layers, just very simple painting. No one expects you to be a great artist, and often you won't even meet them. Most of the people you will play with are usually without an iota of artistic talent, so they just paint a stick figure or ordinary objects. You will often wonder what the poet meant by this. You will also come across people who will write the solution for you instead of drawing. While this will quickly increase the streak, which is the only element that could be described as a score, the game then loses all meaning and charm.
Each successful round adds one point to your streak (and 1-3 coins to buy depending on the difficulty of the word), but if you or a teammate miss the word by giving up with the button Passport, the score resets to zero. If you're really at a loss and don't want to lose your streak, you can use a bomb that will detonate most of the unnecessary letters or offer you a new trio of words if you don't think you could paint any of the ones initially offered. You can also buy more bombs and it is the second and last way to spend your earned points.
However, the game has no goal, there is no leaderboard for the longest streaks, they are probably only counted for your own good feelings. It's all about great fun when guessing words or drawing. It's a shame, though, that the game doesn't go more in-depth in its social layer. You can't share your creations in any way, and unless you take a screenshot on your device, you'll never see the image again. You can see several of them in the gallery below the review. I also miss any possibility of communication. However, if you want to send a message to your teammate, you can write it while drawing, then delete the message and start drawing.
The game has a common version for both iPhone and iPad, but you will enjoy it most on a tablet - thanks to the large drawing surface. If you want to enhance the experience even more, get a capacitive stylus, which will make drawing more natural. Although it doesn't seem like it, the game is really addictive and the notifications that keep coming will force you to keep drawing and guessing, especially if you've played like 20 games. And if you actually meet someone who can draw, the experience is doubled.
However, knowledge of English is required to play. Fortunately, it is not played against time, so it is not a problem to switch between the game and the dictionary. Rather, the problem may be different realities that appear between the words to be guessed from time to time. Words like Madonna or Elvis it may not be a problem, but you don't have to know other celebrities at all, for example Nicki (Minaj). However, most of the words are general, rather it will depend on which teammate you meet.
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It is slightly reminiscent of my favorite Depict
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/depict/id340772215?mt=8
I use. Addictive. We are in our thirties, but we draw like 13-year-old girls with the boys :D The application is also for Android, so there can be a lot of players.
Is this app also directly for iPad? I downloaded it and drawing on an iPhone is not an easy task :)
Yes, you can also use it on the iPad
My favorite is Charadium, which basically does the same thing, only better and a bit longer. Now in its second incarnation.
That Charadium looks good :-) Thanks for the tip! The interface is a bit more complex, but again it offers more options. Charadium II is even free today, so don't hesitate.