Only 10 more days before the Year of the Water Rabbit begins! To welcome the Lunar New Year appropriately, we are inviting you all to a New Year’s-themed drawing challenge. Sharpen your digital pencils, take a blank piece of lobby paper and draw away!
How to participate? - Create a Draw & Guess lobby drawing in Draw & Guess Beta to the theme of either Lunar New Year or Year of the Water Rabbit. Don’t worry, you can export your pictures if you want to take a break in between. In-game pictures from the main version also welcome! - Submit your masterpiece by 21st January 2023, 23:59 Chinese Standard Time (7:59 AM PST) in the Draw & Guess screenshots section, using the hashtag #LunarNewYear23!
What’s in it for you? - All eligible submissions will be shared on the Draw & Guess Twitter page. - The winning image will be publicly displayed on the Draw & Guess store page during Lunar New Year celebrations. - The winner will receive 3 keys for our latest game, Cave Guessers.*
Multiple submissions allowed. Sexist, racist, nudity or NSFW submission are not allowed. Keep it safe, people! 🙂 Pictures submitted in violation of this rule will be deleted and won't participate in the competition. Submissions that appear to have been created with a drawing bot won't enter the competition either.
* So we can contact you, you will need to accept a Steam friend request. If you want to participate but not do that, please use the additional hashtag #np.
Happy drawing! Looking forward to your amazing submissions!
And the winner of our Halloween competiton is.....
We have received so many amazing images, from line drawings to detailed paintings!
Over hours the Halloween spirits have negotiated with each other and finally have decide to reward the top three entries!
Here is their decision: The ultimate winner is…XUANXUAN! Second place: Xie Hao Third place: PhEur
A big thank you to all the participants in the Halloween contest!Your art work is amazing! ːdgloveː
🎃 This is Halloween, this is Halloween! 🎃
Get out your spooky stylos, put on your magic hat and draw away! 👻
We are inviting you to a horrific competition until 31 October 2022, 12 am CET. To participate, enter Beta, start Lobby Drawing and create a Halloween-themed masterpiece. Don’t worry, you can export your pictures if you want to take a break in between. In-game pictures from the main version also welcome! Once finished, post your ghastly work in the screenshot section with the hashtag #D&GHalloween. We will share those in Discord then!
After end of submission we will perform a complex, hour-long ritual to find the one picture that pleases the spirits most. 🙏🏼
The winner will be announced 31 October 2022, 4 pm CET and will receive 🕸️ our special Draw & Guess sticker pack* with an original sketch from the D&G UI artist as well as 4 copies of our new game, Cave Guessers 🕸️.
Multiple submissions allowed. Sexist, racist, nudity or NSFW submission are not allowed. Keep it safe, people! 🙂 Pictures submitted in violation of this rule will be deleted and won't participate in the competition.
*postal address required
Choose your favourite game version during startup
Hello everyone!
We have rolled out an update to Draw & Guess that will now let you run either the Live or Beta version of the game during startup.
In preparation of a larger update we have planned, our team has been hard at work completely revamping our multiplayer servers from scratch.
We have been able to resolve many of the early issues with this system, though are still experiencing a few remaining bugs that can cause lobbies to drop out/players being unable to connect.
To conduct necessary tests, we have updated the main game to the beta version, which includes: - Lobby Drawing - New networking system - More drawing tools - Variable brush sizes - A new AI Game Mode (Solo + Multiplayer) - Improved lobby browser - Greyscale Colours - Various bug fixes
With previous rollouts, players that encountered bugs/issues to the point of disrupting gameplay were unable to revert to the previous version.
From today, we will no longer overwrite the live version of the game, and instead will display a notification letting you know when we've made an update to Beta. We hope that this will help eliminate any disruptions during our update periods.
Once we are confident that our Beta version is more stable than the live version, we will make the full upgrade!
Thank you all for your support and happy drawing!
(We have some very exciting things in store for you in the future 😉 )
- Draw & Guess Team
Update Notes for 10 August
Hello!
While we are diligently working on making the network solution of Beta more robust for release, the official version now has a 300-seconds game mode! This is for all you players who love to create big works of art. ːdgloveː
As part of the update, we've also changed the 120-seconds mode to 150 seconds, and have tweaked Fast Mode a bit so a 300s image does not take minutes to show. Thank you for playing!
If you want to already check out the features that will become available with the next major release, take a look at public Beta! Here's how to activate it: - Right-click on Draw & Guess in your game list. - Select “Properties…” > “Betas”. - Pick “beta – DG Beta Branch” from the drop down. The game automatically updates. Once it is done, it will display as “Draw & Guess [beta]” in your game list.
TLDR: - New 300s game mode - 120s game mode changed to 150s - Fast Mode adapted to display complex pictures faster - Go check out Beta :)
New features in public Beta!
Our public Beta now has a BUNCH of cool features for you to try out prior to official release:
Different Networking logic – includes host migration so games continue even if the host drops Lobby Drawing – chill in the lobby by yourself or with friends Gravity Mode – watch the lines you draw drop to the bottom Invisible Mode – your lines disappear as you draw them, but reappear for the next player!
NEW! Pixel Art Mode! – You’ve mastered your stick figures? How about PIXELATED stick figures?! NEW! POLISH localisation – Tak to prawda! Draw & Guess jest już dostępny w języku polskim! NEW! More flexible drawing time settings – from 15 to 210 seconds, for speed artists and detail-oriented creators
Reminder: To access Beta, just right-click on Draw & Guess in your game list, select “Properties…” > “Betas” and pick “beta – DG Beta Branch” from the drop down. The game automatically updates. Once it is done, it will display as “Draw & Guess [beta]” in your game list.
Found any issues? Report them here: https://acureus.notion.site/d6d55dd3cb7e446abcdb50e968d23e72
Please note that you can always switch back to the main version. Beta players cannot play with main players and vice versa.
Remember to follow us on Twitter for the latest news! >>> @Draw_Guess
Thank you for your patience! We'll keep you updated as the journey continues.
Steam Awards - Please nominate Draw&Guess for "Better with friends"!
Steam has just recently opened up nominations for the 2021 Steam Awards!
From all of us at Acureus/Draw & Guess, we've been completely blown away by the love/support we've received from the community when launching earlier this year. From a game intended for a few hundred people, to now MILLIONS of players, we are incredibly humbled by the response so far.
We've already expanded the team and are working hard to bring you all some HUGE exciting changes next year 👀
If you've enjoyed Draw & Guess, either with your own friends or new ones, we'd love for you to consider nominating us for the Better With Friends category!
Whatever the result, thank you for being a part of this community and we can't wait to share all of the cool thing we've been working on with you!
Rollback Notice - 04 November
Hello all,
as all of you might have noticed, we rolled out our new network solution with some new features a few days ago and have been hotfixing it as good as we could as issues started popping up.
We have rolled back the update for now and will investigate what causes the ongoing issues. We are very sorry for the inconveniences that appeared the past days, and thank you for your numerous reports and feedback. We hope you stay tuned - our goal is and always will be to bring you, our players, the best experience possible. The update will be back when we have figured stuff out.
You can still opt in in the beta branch and try out the new version. Thank you!
Update Notes for 01 November
We are moving out of beta! Please report any errors to us. :-)
- New network solution! Comes with A LOT SHORTER lobby codes! - Lobby Doodling - draw alone or together with people in the lobby, and export the result as an svg file! - Gravity Mode - your lines fall down for total drawing mayhem! - Overdrive Mode - play more rounds in Chain mode than usually possible! - Shape Tool - Create filled shapes using this new tool! - Dropper Tool
