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A game that almost died during Covid and how I made it an app

by bdr on 5/10/21, 2:14 PM with 27 comments

• by gota on 5/11/21, 12:24 PM

  A list of names for this game, or games closely inspired by it that rely on similar mechanics - some of which have been named elsewhere in this thread:

  - Eat Poop You Cat [1]

  - Telephone Pictionary

  - Telestrations [2]

  - GarticPhone (.com for link)

  - Drawful

  - Drawception

  - Mutabo

  - Cranium (according to wikipedia [3], at least)

  I'm sure the list can be way longer

  [1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30618/eat-poop-you-cat

  [2] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/46213/telestrations

  [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers#Variants

• by m_eiman on 5/11/21, 11:59 AM

  The comments here along the lines of "there's already a game like that" are a bit annoying.

  I'm pretty sure that you can say the same about just about any game created today, and somehow people still make new ones and sometimes they get lucky and have their game become popular. What's the point of dumping on someone's work like this?

• by thiago_fm on 5/11/21, 10:49 AM

  Everybody was playing GarticPhone while the author was developing "the game that almost died".

  Things developers are the worst at:

  1. Market research

• by nonidit on 5/11/21, 9:33 AM

  You're a little late. This game already became a twitch hype going by the name GarticPhone.

• by thih9 on 5/11/21, 10:46 AM

  Current title looks like clickbait to me, I'd replace it with the subtitle, "A reflection on 1 year of writeydrawey".

• by alexdbird on 5/11/21, 2:18 PM

  I’m a little surprised no one has mentioned the canonical name for this game: Exquisite Corpse

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse

• by sokoloff on 5/11/21, 11:51 AM

  For casual family game nights, there’s a flip book and dry erase marker version of this called “Telestrations” which I can highly recommend.

  (No connection other than happy user.)

• by fsflyer on 5/11/21, 7:18 PM

  The href is wrong for the paragraph:

  Visit the site: https://writeydrawey.site

  The href is missing the 'e' in drawey.

• by asutekku on 5/11/21, 10:02 AM

  Neat, but there are literally multiple of the same game available. Just google ”broken telephone drawing game”. What new does this bring?

• by dave84 on 5/11/21, 10:24 AM

  Played the game as Drawing Evolution on AirConsole over the pandemic, will check out this version.

• by ChrisRR on 5/11/21, 11:47 AM

  Sooooo Drawful?