We have heard the passionate feedback from many of you. Based on this, we have made some more changes to the interaction options in Scribble It! We're bringing back the chat. But in a slightly modified form. Click on the speech bubble icon in the toolbar to open the new chat. As always, you can use it to talk to players who have the same status as you - that is, players who have either already guessed correctly or haven't guessed correctly yet.
As always, we encourage every one of you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!
Patch Notes
Added flashing task bar, when match is ready
Add Steam profile button to player context menu
Aligned actual word pop-up to new word design
Reintroduced game chat
Bugfixes
Fixed word package carousel doesn't reset properly when going back to homescreen
Fixed crash when players joins a lobby
Patch 1.6.0 Notes
Patch 1.6.0 is now live!
It's been a while since we put out a major patch for the game, but we weren't lazy. This patch introduces a number of changes which will be highlighted below. A short summary: you can now (respectfully) spam emojis, rotational game modes are a thing, your favorite avatar just got way bigger, you now earn trophies for playing well and finding public games got a lot easier. Let's dive into it!
New Emoji System - Good Riddance, Chat
We love to bring fresh air to the established concept of drawing & guessing. This is why we made some major changes to the in-game experience. While keeping the core gameplay exactly as it is, we are introducing a couple of changes to various UI elements.
Player Displays
The most important one: we are getting rid of the chat window. But fear not: you can still discuss your family tree with strangers in case that's what you'd like to do - just not in form of a chat protocol. On that note: muting other players also became a lot easier :) From now on every player has his own player display. You can see what other players are typing and when they start to type in realtime. Close & correct guesses, score, placement and everything else that's important can be found inside and around your player display. This is what it looks like:
Emojis
To allow for a more emotional but still meaningful and more or less civilized conversation we added emojis to the game. In the coming months we will add even more emojis so you can show exactly what you're feeling whenever it happens again that noone seems to know what you're drawing.
Quickplay
To improve the lacking experience in public games, we made adjustments to matchmaking. It is no longer necessary to create lobbies for public games. Instead, you can now simply press on Quick Play and the search for a match will start. Once 3 other players are found, you will be matched and a game of Guess It! starts. The word package pool for these matches consists of all the official word packages. They are selected at random.
For now, it is not possible to queue into these games with a group of friends. Don't worry, to play with your friends you can still create private lobbies. Simply click on the new button "Play with friends" in the main menu.
With these changes we hope to reduce queue times, better serve newer players and give players that enjoy playing on their own a better overall experience with less frustration from random host kicks, votekicks etc.
Event Game Modes
Starting today we are introducing rotational event game modes. In regular intervals new game modes will be added to the game and featured in the main menu. They are available for all players. The first event game mode will be an old acquaintance: Rate It! We decided to go with Rate It! because many players never really got a chance of playing this game mode because it required the premium version and a group of friends. We made quite a few changes to the scoring system of Rate It! and hope you'll enjoy the new version as much as we do!
Scoring System
Speaking of scoring system: we made some major changes to the scoring system of our classic game mode Guess It!. The old system allowed for a very precise evaluation of a players performance. Meaning your score would reflect if you were just a tiny a bit faster in guessing the correct word than the other players or a lot faster. However, just seeing your score in form of a 4-5 digit number increase is not really fulfilling or engaging. We also did not like that scores were sometimes in the range of 5000+ which made it hard to quickly see what distance in score two players had. Also such big numbers were making it hard to compare different matches with each other to see if you were performing well overall. The new system introduces two new mechanisms: medals🏅 and trophies 🏆 Guessing and drawing will earn you different kinds of medals. At the end of a round medals are converted to trophies. The player with the most trophies wins the game at the end of the match. So the core principle of Scribble It! remains the same: Guess fast and draw well to be victorious!
As always, we encourage every one of you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!
Patch-Notes
Overhauled quick play, so you are no longer required to manually create public games
Quick play searches can now only be made for one game mode
Added new quick play match loading screen with player preview
Changed Rate It! to first rotational game mode
Rating in Rate It! is now based on medals instead of numbers
Rate It! can now only be played with max. 4 players
Guess It! (quick play) now has one static word package per round
Replaced player list with large player display
Replaced chat with emojis / speech bubbles
Simplified scoring system to work with medals instead of points
Players can no longer join running matches
Removed votekick in public games
Removed Simon's explanations
Removed Exhibition Wars!
Temporarily removed teams
Match result screen can now be left without waiting for the host
Overhauled Free Draw UI for more drawing space
Bugfixes
Fixed store doesn't always open when clicking premium elements
Fixed crash, when host changes his word language in the lobby
Fixed crash when shutting down application, caused by stylus input
7th Community Art Contest- These are the winners!
The 7th Community Art Contest has concluded!
It is time to officially declare the winners 🏆 To have a closer look at the winning artworks, please head over to our Discord where we always publish all information regarding our contests.
As always we are very thankful and happy that so many people participated. Over 100 artworks were submitted over the course of the contest. Thank you so much and hopefully we will see all of you again for the next edition!
Hotfix 1.5.6.1 Notes
Hotfix 1.5.6.1 is now live!
A hotfix was just released that fixed a bug concerning the automatic saving of drawings. All artworks that you yourself draw in one of our gamemodes should now again be visible in the history section of your gallery. We are really sorry for the inconvenience that this bug caused for some of you! Thanks for reporting this to us.
As always, we encourage every one of you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!
Bugfixes
Fixed drawings are not automatically saved
Fixed revealed words are not always correct
Improved contest button style
Community Art Contest LIVE NOW!
Our Community Art Contest is live NOW!
It was about time! The next edition of our art contests is starting NOW. The official theme of this contest is 🥁 ....'GAME CHARACTERS' Show us your best recreations of the most famous or even barely known game characters in their most iconic poses.
❗ Important Information
Artworks must be created in-game. We have set up a special event page for this purpose, which you can reach via the main menu. The voting does ALSO take place in-game! The community decides who wins first place. We will declare the winners on our Discord server! Hop over there and have a chat with the other participants!
🗓️ Timeline:
Submitting Artwork (+Voting): Start: 27.05.2022, 4PM UTC End: 06.06.2022, 4PM UTC
Voting only: Start: 06.06.2022, 4PM UTC End: 10.06.2022, 4PM UTC
🎁Prizes:
🏅 Place 1 50 € Steam gift card.
🏅 Place 2 20 € Steam gift card.
🏅 Place 3 10 € Steam gift card
🏅 Places 4-10 2 x Scribble It! - Premium Edition game keys
We wish all participants good luck! 😍
Hotfix 1.5.5.1 Notes
Hotfix 1.5.5.1 is now live!
G'Day! We just released a small hotfix that addresses some game crashes and bugs. That's it. Wishing all of you a fantastic weekend!
As always, we encourage every one of you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!
Bugfixes
Fixed choosing word pop-up doesn't show up for teams in Guess It!
Fixed host can crash at end of round
Fixed crash when joining match
Fixed crash when leaving match
Patch 1.5.5.0 Notes
Patch 1.5.5.0 is now live!
Hello everyone, for those who wonder what we did for the last couple of weeks: working on this patch was definitely part of it. We reworked our networking code to reduce the required bandwith in preparation for dedicated servers and to enable smoother remote drawing. Other than that we also made a change to the Rate It! game mode. Every drawing is now animated for the jury so they can see exactly how it was created. We think this is a pretty neat change to get a better impression on the artistic skills that went into the artwork and allow for a more accurate voting.
We are also planning another art contest. We have not yet decided on the theme so if you have an idea for a theme we would love to hear it.
As always, we encourage every one of you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!
Patch Notes
Reworked networking, to reduce required bandwidth in preparation for dedicated servers and enable smoother remote drawing
The drawing process is now shown when revealing a drawing in Rate It!
Bugfixes
Fixed possible lag, when revealing drawing in Grand Reveal
Fixed tool hints are shown, even when selecting the same tool again
Fixed choosing word pop-up wasn't always correctly shown
Fixed player reporting dialog behaved incorrect
Fixed FPS lock was only enforced for new users
Fixed various crashes
Hotfix 1.5.4.3 Notes
Hotfix 1.5.4.3 is now live!
Tonight we released a patch that fixes some minor bugs. Among them was a bug that caused the achievement for changing the avatar to be inaccessible. This should be fixed now. Thank you for reporting this to us!
As always, we encourage every one of you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!
Bugfixes
Fixed thumbnails for hovered word packages don't get reloaded
Fixed crash at game start, when removing duplicate words
Fixed player names of left players weren't shown in winner screen
Fixed joining Free Draw with activated online safety doesn't work
Fixed avatar change achievement can't be unlocked
Fixed current team display is never shown
Fixed disabling of tools doesn't work
Scribble It! Theme Songs Release
Hello everyone,
today we are publicly releasing all of our 5 theme songs. We know a lot of you have been asking about this, so we decided to offer them to you for free.
Also, the latest song was created by the amazingly talented guys from Sound4Apps. PLEASE show them some love and listen to "Flow" here.
We also decided to offer the songs on Steam. We really want to keep this project alive which is only possible if we can at least cover our expenses. If you'd like to support Zaratusa and me (söanski) in further developing Scribble It! you can now buy the theme songs on our Store page. Of course this is only optional, so don't feel pressured to buy anything. All songs and the game itself will always be available for free.
Much love to our amazing community! - the devs
Hotfix 1.5.4.2 Notes
Hotfix 1.5.4.2 is now live!
We we were (finally 😅) able to identify the source of a bug that caused word packages to be duplicated when trying to update them. We are deeply sorry for everyone that couldn't work on their beloved word packages from time to time!
In the process we also fixed some other bugs which you can read about below!
As always, we encourage every one of you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!
Cheers, the devs
Fixed word display shows cryptic hint, when hints are disabled
Fixed team phase results are not shown long enough
Fixed own word packages, which exceed the configured online safety, are not shown in the word package editor list
Fixed updating word packages may create duplicate word package
Fixed last word in word package editor can't be navigated with Enter and Tab
