At least they have the decency to not rip off the UI entirely... I wonder how it will work out for the Chinese language, probably breaking characters down to strokes?
It's very well done, in a style that's a rarity for Chinese pages (which tend to be very cluttered to international eyes). These guys have a modern aesthetic - kudos to them for that.
I'm only surprised it didn't take longer for a clone to emerge, given how fast clones are made in China.
Exactly, I played Yahoo Graffiti ages ago. I was actually considering making an iOS version, and then came across Draw Something on the app store. A few weeks later it blew up and had tons of press. This genre just goes back.
Talking about copying... there was a portal called Jippii long time ago, they had "Draw Something" game in year 1995 already. The whole omgpop.com looks like Jippii, only they use flash instead of Java. The reason why I remember it so well is because it was one of the first sites I visited (with Rotten.com)
The portal(s) were owned by Saunalahti, a Finnish mobile Operator. Their Jippii portals very very popular in some parts of Europe.
To be fair, it's the westerner's fault their apps, games and websites don't catch on in the east. Do some research, see what chinese people want, what the usually like, and tailor a version of your product which fits the description.
Don't you think Draw Something would have caught on if it had a chinese version ?
This is also the exact same reasons why chinese products don't really catch on in the west. Their approach is so chinese, with an insane mixture of colors, tons of features (note how the web tends to go Apple-style: all simple) and more often than not bad english, that they're doomed from the start on this market.
This is exactly the reason I am in china right now. To learn what it takes. In my opinion, all companies that care about this market should have offices here, put their pride aside and prepare to change the local face of their product to match the chinese style. Just compare weibo with twitter or fb, baidu with google, etc... It's so obvious what the chinese elements are, you just need to learn to use them.
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I'm only surprised it didn't take longer for a clone to emerge, given how fast clones are made in China.
Everybody is copying this game as far as I'm concerned. I remember playing it like 10 years ago.
The portal(s) were owned by Saunalahti, a Finnish mobile Operator. Their Jippii portals very very popular in some parts of Europe.
Unfortunately they don't exist anymore.
Don't you think Draw Something would have caught on if it had a chinese version ?
This is also the exact same reasons why chinese products don't really catch on in the west. Their approach is so chinese, with an insane mixture of colors, tons of features (note how the web tends to go Apple-style: all simple) and more often than not bad english, that they're doomed from the start on this market.
This is exactly the reason I am in china right now. To learn what it takes. In my opinion, all companies that care about this market should have offices here, put their pride aside and prepare to change the local face of their product to match the chinese style. Just compare weibo with twitter or fb, baidu with google, etc... It's so obvious what the chinese elements are, you just need to learn to use them.