Picturesque! A new drawing game [Concept]

[Whirlwind~]

Background
Drawing games in Blockland are pretty fun. You could easily waste several hours on The Black Parrot's Pictionary. But most of Blockland's pictionaries and draw somethings have 2 major drawbacks:

• Waiting - Some games you have to win (guess the word right) in order to be able to draw. Others you have to wait your turn like tbp's. If there's a queue of 13 people and rounds take 5 minutes, you are easily waiting an hour just to draw for a little bit. And speaking of drawing for a little bit...
• Timed - You only get a limited time to draw. In some games, you don't get to draw at all because someone guessed the word right. Others will still limit your drawing time just to make sure everyone gets a turn. But when you are trying to draw memes, that timer can be very bothersome.
  
  

Gameplay (This is just a rough idea of how the game should be run.)
This game should work very similar to the actual draw something: You and another blockhead draw pictures for one another and try to get them to guess the word you are drawing.

-When you start a new game, the server will try to match you with an open player.
-If there are none, then you become an open player.
-Open players will be given a word to draw. Once you have finished drawing, you become an available partner.
-You or your partner will try to guess the word the other drew. You both get points for a correct response, and then continue drawing back and forth with each other.
-You and your partner do not need to be on the server together. You can draw, leave, eat an enchilada, come back, see that your partner was there, guess their word, draw a word for them, and leave again.
-You can start as many games as you want (maybe), so that means you always get to draw.
-There is no time limit for drawing (maybe), so that means you can make your art as detailed as you want.
-How you draw it will also be saved on the server, i.e. it will record each pixel's color change (just like the real draw something).

Food for thought
-How many guesses should you get?
-Should it be chat guess? or scrambled letter tiles like the real thing?
-How to detect/enforce simply spelling out the word or chatting the answer?
-Maximum number of games? Or maybe a maximum number of open games you can make?
-Some kind of mode where everyone can guess for a single drawing?
-How to pick words?
-How well do you think this would work?

Discuss anything vague or features you want to see or potential problems. If there's enough feedback, I'll start on this over spring break.

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[Phoople]

I likey.

[Conan]

maybe revamp it so it isn't player to player
instead players who want to draw would be given a board to draw on, the server records the drawing, and those who want to guess can either watch as you draw or watch the main board (a public board) that randomly picks a drawing in the database that hasnt been shown before

the issue of untimed drawing though is that some drawings may take a ton of time to display which is an issue. maybe have it modify the replay speed based on how long it took to draw the drawing, and set a large drawing time of like 5 minutes for people who are drawing so you dont have very few drawings in the database since everyone takes forever to make a drawing

[IkeTheGeneric]

Idea - if you go so many drawing rounds where nobody (save for like one two people to prevent people from using friends to troll) is able to guess your drawing in a row, you're auto-banned from the queue. This will prevent people who are going to troll every round from being able to further troll, and it also prevents people from abusing the autoban to forget with people.

Unless somebody manages to unite the server to not guess an image every time you draw, in which case damn

[Whirlwind~]

maybe revamp it so it isn't player to player
instead players who want to draw would be given a board to draw on, the server records the drawing, and those who want to guess can either watch as you draw or watch the main board (a public board) that randomly picks a drawing in the database that hasnt been shown before

I don't see why we can't have a p2p as well as a main guessing board.

the issue of untimed drawing though is that some drawings may take a ton of time to display which is an issue. maybe have it modify the replay speed based on how long it took to draw the drawing,

Yea I was planning on something like this. If it really is too long to display from beginning to end, I can always just display the end result.

and set a large drawing time of like 5 minutes for people who are drawing so you dont have very few drawings in the database since everyone takes forever to make a drawing

The whole point of this is that there is no time limit. 5 minutes isn't that long. Some people will be fast drawers and some will be slow. With no time constraints, people can make some pretty amazing art.

Idea - if you go so many drawing rounds where nobody (save for like one two people to prevent people from using friends to troll) is able to guess your drawing in a row, you're auto-banned from the queue. This will prevent people who are going to troll every round from being able to further troll, and it also prevents people from abusing the autoban to forget with people.

Unless somebody manages to unite the server to not guess an image every time you draw, in which case damn

This won't use a queue. Anyone can draw at anytime, and people will guess the picture at a later time.


Maybe I didn't explain this well enough? I guess I assumed people knew what draw something is.
Here's some pictures from the game:






These kinds of drawings shouldn't be limited by time.

[Conan]

I don't see why we can't have a p2p as well as a main guessing board.

i feel like it would be a feature that wouldn't be used a lot, or used primarily to troll others or leave hate mail or something idk
but go ahead and implement it: it can always be turned off if it turns out badly.

[jes00]

Not a big fan. I think Blockland in general is better as a group game. This limits that to a couple people.

[Flamecannon]

This concept could probably work if it functions the same way the dueling minigame mod works. Like in a server full of people you could type in /picturesque (certain user) then you both spawn on a generated platform in the sky with drawing grids and such, then if you both like type in /picturesquefinished you both get teleported to the other person's drawing and get to guess and such. Would that work if tweaked?