Metissa had been secretly planning while her snakes were asleep. She really wanted them to feel like this Spring Festival was the beginning of their year. There would be fireworks, many guests and all their favourite foods: Spring Rolls, Dumplings, and some Sugar Pockets. Tomoko, Lyndel, Zoey, and Scarlet even promised to dress up for the occasion! All that was missing was a photographer for taking pictures... because Theo chased him away (oops!). Can you help out with some pictures in time for the Lantern Festival on 12 February?
Drawing Competition Rules
Create an original artwork in Draw & Guess
Artwork must include at least one Draw & Guess character shown celebrating the Spring Festival
Submit your artwork to the D&G screenshot section in Steam by 12 February, 12 am Chinese Standard Time, with the hashtag #2025LNYSnake
Keep it safe for work and original (suspected bot submissions will be disregarded)
Prizes
1st Place: A real-life plushie of Theo + 2500 ink
2nd Place: 1250 ink
3rd Place: 850 ink
Important Dates
Submissions close on: 12 February, 12:00 am China Standard Time
Winners will be announced by: 13 February, 12:00 am China Standard Time
Happy drawing!
Update Notes Jan. 21
- Whiteout eraser now returns to previously selected color when deselecting - Changed default minimum trust score for public lobbies from 1 to 2 - Fixed lobby chat having inconsistent positions when sliding in or out during low frame rate situations - [Lobby drawing] You can now use color picker to pick colors from other players’ drawings - [Lobby drawing] Fixed the layer issue when player adding lines in layer 1 - Fixed system messages for intentional player quits - [Whisper] Fixed UI issues during presentation
Community updates
Happy new year!
At this beginning of 2025, our community has grown bigger and bigger thanks to the support from all of you, which we are so grateful for. Since we have released our trust score and report system in August 2024, we have witnessed a great change on the overall game environment. Meanwhile we also received some feedback about our systems with concerns about a few players’ inappropriate behaviour. We would like to share a bit more information about things we have done recently and next steps to maintain a better community environment.
Players deserve to enjoy the game without disruption/abuse from others. In response to various reports we have received regarding disruptive gameplay, we have begun issuing account bans. These will be issued carefully, and with ample verified reports from players.
Going forth, players that modify the game client and abuse exploits to disrupt the gameplay of other players will also face bans.
We encourage all players to consciously maintain a peaceful and friendly atmosphere as well as mutual respect to fully enjoy the game. We strictly forbid any potential behaviour that compromises other players' gaming experience and/or the public social environment. If you witness or experience any such behaviour, please collect and send evidence to the team. You can also use the in-game reporting system. We will then review the reports and take any appropriate action.
Thank you all for your ongoing support. We will continue to take measures to help maintain the community environment and bring more joy to the community. We have some exciting news and plans for 2025 that we are eager to share when the time comes! Stay tuned for some Steam announcements!
Christmas Costume Winner
Hii everyone!
Thank you all for coming to my Christmas Costume party! I see several Santa costumes and some ... very Halloween-y make-up! That’s clever! Gus, if you need to catch your breath from all that running, just take your time.
Thanks everyone for the presents and love you brought to share. Before you dive into drinks and cookies, let’s present the winners of this year’s costume contest! With all these awesome costumes, it was really difficult to choose only 3 winners, but here they come...
First place goes to~~ Tomoko, drum-roll please! …..
玛琳!
Congratulations!
But we also have some runners up! Another drum-roll please, Tomoko! …
摸多modo!
and
Bobby!
Thank you all for dressing up! Now enjoy your presents and snacks – and stay tuned for Zoey’s and Tomoko’s gig later! (Have you seen Tomoko’s drum? Looks good as new! 😁)
All the characters continued partying well into the night. At one point neighbour Eli the mammoth came over to complain about the noise, but he just ended up staying and partying along. And when Christmas finally came, they all celebrated together and looked forward to the new year.
The entire team of Acureus wishes you happy holidays and good fortune in 2025! Keep drawing!
Update Notes Dec. 19th
- [Drawing] New eraser that can erase multiple lines at once - [Drawing] Drawing tool selection optimizations - [Battle Royale] Clear warmup canvas in Battle Royale when game starts - [Battle Royale] Fixed a layering issue in lobby - Fixed a regression with trust score limitations not applying correctly - [Lobby Drawing] Fixed that “clear” did not behave the same on local and remote players - Various stability improvements
Update Notes December 17th
Highlights:
- The room code should now stay the same when returning from match to lobby
- Changes to reconnects:
You can now rejoin an ongoing match via room code if the game crashed
You can now rejoin an ongoing match via room code if you went back to main menu
The host can now extend the wait timer
⚠️ If the timer expires, or the host player cancels waiting, the reconnect attempt will still be blocked, and the player will be removed from the ongoing match permanently! ⚠️
Fixes & changes:
[Lobby] Fixed chat scrolling sensitivity
[Lobby] Now the host’s lobby setting page will not be refreshed by others’ actions in the lobby
[Lobby] Fixed a rare crash when syncing a drawing to players that left
We don’t disable the mute button on players that disconnected during a match anymore
[Whisper] Fix a bug where in rare cases after a reconnect, an old guess was automatically re-submitted in a later round
[Whisper] Fix a bug where a full image could be sent twice when the drawing phase ended, which lead to unnecessary network burden
[Whisper] Avoid sending very large images in full when drawing phase ended, and rely on only syncing all lines while they are drawn
[Whisper] Fixed an issue that the presentation intro could have different orders for different player (so sometimes they did not show the correct intro for the following presentation)
[Whisper] Fix a stuck case when a word match vote was lost due to a disconnect during a later presentation
Update Notes 12.12
- Improved drawing synchronization when joining a lobby - Muting other players is now persisted across games - [Whisper] Fixed an issue that the header section could not be hidden in later rounds - Fixed an issue with switching game modes when CPU was incompatible with robot mode - UI optimizations - Character skin optimizations
Christmas Drawing Competition
From mystic Inx to mischievous Theo - all characters received Marina’s party invitation. As usual with Marina’s parties, it is bound to be a blast! But.. costume party?! What to wear, what to wear?! Here you have Lyndel rummaging in some dusty boxes, there you have Zoey contemplating if the skull sweater she bought last Christmas still fits. Wildbark confides with his conifer friends and Metissa wonders if she can draw something up with her magic. Nothing quite seems to fit, though, and none of their ideas really feel like a winning match… Maybe -you- can help them get ready?
Competition rules
Draw an original art piece in Draw & Guess; this can be done in Lobby Drawing, Sketchbook, or in-game
The artwork must contain at least 1 Draw & Guess character in a Christmas-themed costume
Submit your artwork to the screenshot section via Steam using the hashtag #DGXmas2024 before 22 December, 11:59 pm UTC
Keep it safe for work and original (suspected bot submissions will be disregarded)
Prizes
1st Place: A real-life plushie of Theo + 2500 Ink
2nd Place: 1250 ink
3rd Place: 850 ink
Important Dates
Submissions close on: 22 December, 11:59 pm UTC
Winners will be announced by: 23 December, 11:00 pm UTC
Merry drawing!
P.S.: Looking for some inspiration? Check out our newly added Christmas-themed character skins in Shop. Available for a limited time only!
Update Notes Nov. 25th
- Images saved from matches to Sketchbook are now correctly saved on layer 2 - Add an error message if the game is unable to start due to missing access to the folder where it tries to save wordlists, match history, … - fixed that PixelArt images where not scaled properly on match export - Picking the Pixel background no longer breaks the alpha value - UI Fixes
Update Notes Nov. 18th
- Introduced sorting by players and trust scores to lobby list - Fix an issue with aspect ratio when opening a lobby drawing in sketchbook - Fixed an issue with volumes when the volume was set to zero - Character animation fixes
