Bug report: Drawing lines erases big bits of the drawing near to the line (on iPad). Eg, draw a NE SW diagonal, then draw another diagonal NW SE, the first one gets erased.
We didn't have time to test on ipad or other mobile devices. The prize for most votes is an ipad2 so if you vote for us (top right corner of the page) you might be helping us build the ipad version.
According to wikipedia the original version was text only, while I think the pure image version is most common on the internet, but the alternating version is definitely the most fun to play! :)
I've always thought a fascinating thing about the game is how certain images are so iconically associated with particular words that they'll make it through several iterations. (Such as the zombie example elsewhere in the thread -- once a zombie appears, it's so recognizable that it sticks around.)
But isn't this one of the selling points of node.js? From their site:
"Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs. In the "hello world" web server example above, many client connections can be handled concurrently."
I've noticed a few sites hosted at no.de go down after hitting the HN front page. I'd like to know the answers to the questions posed by the grandparent.
And we coded it in 8 hours, at a noisy bar in DC, using an tethered iPhone for internet. There's no caching, no compression, heck the images are stored as base64 in mogo as strings. We had NO IDEA this thing would take off the way it did.
You might want to include more object requests that contain words beyond "shit", "piss", "nigga" (oh yea, it was there!) ... etc.
Seriously, the concept is cool, your drawing requests are ridiculous.
Tracking 'latest' changes would be nice, once you've played for a while, it's hard to find all the recent updates.
Also, I like identifying pictures more than drawing. If there are others who like drawing more, it would be nice to be given a preference so you get those more often, e.g. "I prefer identifying/I prefer drawing".
An excellent game. I also second the idea for saving them, perhaps bash.org style?
If you can manage to keep the last few displaying, and not link all of them, it would make for an easier time viewing your recent drawings. This game is a blast seeing how these threads develop.
Fantastic game. If I may, I would enjoy more colors, and/or overlapping colors to mix/kinda fight over transparency issus.. but that's just the wanna be painter in me. I want it to be more like actually painting.. and that just gave me a brilliant idea for destorying ms paint and whathaveyous....
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The server appears to be down now, though.
According to wikipedia the original version was text only, while I think the pure image version is most common on the internet, but the alternating version is definitely the most fun to play! :)
I've always thought a fascinating thing about the game is how certain images are so iconically associated with particular words that they'll make it through several iterations. (Such as the zombie example elsewhere in the thread -- once a zombie appears, it's so recognizable that it sticks around.)
javascript:for(var i=0;i<6;i++){for(var j=0;j<6;j++){for(var k=0;k<6;k++){txt = '#'+'0369cf'.substr(i,1)+'0369cf'.substr(j,1)+'0369cf'.substr(k,1);$('.tools').append("<a href='#drawing' data-color='" + txt + "'style='width: 5px; height: 5px; padding: 0; spacing: 0; background: " + txt + ";'></a> ");}}}
It started off as the Sun.
I love this game.
Unfortunately it's been "under development" for about a year...
- the No.de instance is not good enough for that traffic
- Node.js can't handle the traffic
- the game doesn't scale
"Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs. In the "hello world" web server example above, many client connections can be handled concurrently."
I've noticed a few sites hosted at no.de go down after hitting the HN front page. I'd like to know the answers to the questions posed by the grandparent.
...even if the goal is 'have fun' :)
Also, I like identifying pictures more than drawing. If there are others who like drawing more, it would be nice to be given a preference so you get those more often, e.g. "I prefer identifying/I prefer drawing".
An excellent game. I also second the idea for saving them, perhaps bash.org style?
BrokenPictureTelephone.com
Was a great game back when it actually existed.
We plan on doing that after the competition. It's crazy that it works at all the way it is now.
What you see was built in about 8 hours, at a bar, using an iPhone for internet.
I restarted the node service and it should be back now.
also, my productivity just dropped to zero...