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Author Topic: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication  (Read 90998 times)

Draco18s

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Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« on: March 30, 2012, 03:59:56 pm »

Anyone seen Drawception yet?

Absolutely hilarious game based on the idea of the game Telephone, where each player takes the previous player's submission and either attempts to describe or draw it.

A game starts with a short phrase, submitted by one player.
Another player then draws the phrase.
Another player then describes the drawing.
This repeats until 12 unique players have submitted.

Then the results are revealed.

Here's an example



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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2012, 04:03:12 pm »

Pretty funny

But my issue with games of telephone is that they get a LOT less interesting once someone intentionally tries to mess it up.

Behold my ability to make anything sound terrible!
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Draco18s

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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2012, 04:18:14 pm »

But my issue with games of telephone is that they get a LOT less interesting once someone intentionally tries to mess it up.

There's a karma system and anything that deviates from the expected gets downvoted pretty quick.  For the most part it keeps people from just drawing penises.
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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2012, 04:28:03 pm »

We're doing Telephone Comics in the forum games area, but this sounds hilarious. I'll have to give it a whirl sometime.
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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2012, 05:24:27 pm »

We're doing Telephone Comics in the forum games area, but this sounds hilarious. I'll have to give it a whirl sometime.

It's freaking amazing.  Here's one I started (NSFW) and while I totally expected it to go dirty, it didn't happen where I thought it would.
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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2012, 06:10:55 pm »

But my issue with games of telephone is that they get a LOT less interesting once someone intentionally tries to mess it up.

There's a karma system and anything that deviates from the expected gets downvoted pretty quick.  For the most part it keeps people from just drawing penises.

From what I seen they still sort of ruin it intentionally. Often by intentionally saying what a picture is in the most cryptic way possible.

For example

A picture of an Orange

"A Sour fruit"

but I assume it is part of the game sometimes. Especially since games are too short to often get the sort of devolution you would want.
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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2012, 06:20:58 pm »

I'm sure I played this before, and it was called something else.

*checks*
Yeah, it was called Broken Picture Telephone, but I guess that version's gone now.
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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2012, 07:04:36 pm »

Oh dear, this is going to be a huge time sink. Nice find!
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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2012, 08:58:16 pm »

Oh god this is funny. I can't see the game I started though  :(
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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2012, 10:29:30 pm »

... what if I don't want to log in with another site's login/password?
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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2012, 12:53:22 am »

I click "play", found a phrase i can work with, but for some reason there's no canvas anywhere? WAT DO?
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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2012, 03:24:26 am »

By the gods this game is fantastic. I spent most of last night playing it, got some seriously funny ones, like this one.
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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2012, 03:32:26 am »

That last panel is hilarious Chattox XD
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Re: Drawception: a game of Miscommunication
« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2012, 03:55:49 am »

Lmao.

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