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Show HN: Teledraw.com, a web-based drawing game

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http://www.teledraw.com/

Hey guys, we've been working on Teledraw.com for the past 5 months, and when Doodle.no.de came out, we pushed hard to show you our take on the telephone drawing game as well. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

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revorad
Oh please don't make me sign up. Just let me play?
camupod
We would really like to have the ability to play without signup, but we need some way to prevent spam. Signup takes seconds, and it's even faster with Facebook connect!
revorad
Is spam really such a big issue right now for you? You're probably missing out on a lot of users for stopping a couple of spammers, which you can do manually anyway.
camupod
That's a good point. We're working on allowing users to quickly jump into playing (with a temporary account), by just asking for a username, then allowing them to complete registration later if they choose.

It's not entirely about spam, either... user accounts are closely tied in with the structure of the site, so it's hard to have accounts and anonymous users playing the same game. If you sign up, you'll see that there are a lot more features on the site than just playing! For example, the home page turns into a news feed sort of page, where you can see new activity on threads you've played in. The user profile page (here's mine: http://www.teledraw.com/user/camupod), which allows people to check out the turns you've played on previous threads.

Give it a chance, please? :)

camupod
We've heeded your advice, and tonight we added the ability to play Teledraw without registering. All one needs to do is click on "Play", then "just let me play!", and a guest account will be created, which they can play on and later decide whether or not to register (keeping everything they've done so far and associating it with the new account).