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Mattster
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Matt @Mattster

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The Drawing Grounds!

Posted by Mattster - September 5th, 2012


Yesterday, after 2 months of work, I released the Drawing Grounds. I was not sure exactly what would happen, seeing as most of my testing/developing was done offline while at my cottage. But sure enough, things worked out way better than expected!

Within a few hours of launch, games were coming in extremely fast. By the end of the day, several people already had 50+ game invites. Way more then I was expecting. At the time of this post, the stats read:

935 Drawings in the portal
10,500 Games created
3,720 Users

Absolutely amazing.Thank you to all of those who are playing and drawing, I am truly amazed with the quantity, quality, and cocks that have come from you all.

Shout-out to Mike for his help with the API and the bugs that came with it ;)

If you haven't played the Drawing Grounds yet, go play it now.

Art by LuxiotheEchidna

The Drawing Grounds!


Comments

There should be a difficulty curve, like less words to choose from as you rack up the points. I really love this game though. Is there a chance of more multiplayer NG games in the future?

I don't really want to limit people from the chance to be creative. But something I intend to do is log what words they have drawn, so that way they won't be drawing the same things over and over again without having some variety in-between.

As for more multiplayer NG games. I'd say yes. I hope to improve on this game for a while, and then hopefully start on something new! :D

It's been a long, LONG time since there was a game on Newgrounds that hooked me in. And this is a fantastic, addicting game.

Hopefully you add more word choices!

Aha, good to hear! More words each update! :D

needs more words im tired of drawin forks and chairsss...

I'm adding a bunch each update. Right now there are at least 100+ words.

Any chance of there being an opacity slider in the future?

Probably not. I don't intend to change anything with the drawing mechanics, besides making tools a bit easier to access (ie a button to change color over the double-click).

I would have liked it more if it was more live like Draw my thing. Maybe a game lobby or something?

Never played it. If the lobby means having who is online in a game, that isn't doable unfortunately.

as luis said. its really need more words. but not just boring object. it need more Newgrounds themed words/names and other funny things

Fun game, I have your game page open in a separate browser and I've gone back to it often this week.

Very well done on the game! I'm having a lot of fun drawing offbeat or elaborate pictures using the words provided. :)

Is there any chance you could add a "fill space" tool at some point in the future?

Just voted zero on it after I found out that a godawful internet meme was a medal. Grow up and act your age. You can't be 19 IRL, it's impossible. Using memes to get fanboys to vote on your games is just sad.

Umadbro?

Good game man, keep it up :)

An awesome game, well made and really fun to play. I'd make a suggestion or two but judging from past responses (like more tools to draw with) that's not likely to happen any time soon.

Still I love this game! Not to mention it's a huge boost to the ego when you're a featured artist. =P

Yeah, I don't want to change the drawing up at all. Maybe if I ever decide to make The Drawing Grounds 2 I'll give the whole drawing system an overhaul.

You drew some awesome things and deserve some attention! :D