Greetings, another patch is now live! We fixed a few pesky bugs that caused game crashes every now and then. We also made minor changes to a few UI elements in the options menu and game creation menu. Duplicated words in the same match should now also be an issue of the past. Lastly, we added an option to disable analytics event submission (opt-out).
As always, we encourage you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!
Wishing you all the best!
Patch-Notes
Added graphics driver update message
Added option to disable analytics event submission
Added option for unlimited drawing time in Guess It! - Grand Reveal and Rate It!
Duplicated words are now removed, even in multilanguage situtations
Improved duration selections
Improved maximum FPS selection
Bugfixes
Fixed initial UI language is not set to language set in Steam
Fixed crash when reading empty files from title storage
Fixed crash when receiving message before match has started
Fixed crash when opening word package editor
Fixed crash when updating stats
Fixed crash when leaving lobby
Patch 1.4.1.0 Notes
Patch 1.4.1.0 is now live
Hello everyone, today's patch adds Ukranian UI to the game and fixes various bugs. Thanks to all of you who keep reporting minor (and sometimes major 😅) bugs and by doing this help us fix them!
We also added a Game Analytics system to the game. The reason for this is that the game is now at a point where the most requested and most necessary features have been added. Since Early Access entry in 2019 and official release in October, 2020 a LOT has changed. Visually and gameplay-wise the game has certainly grown. Now it is time for us to gain deeper insights into how our community actually plays the game. Often times in the past we had to guess what does and what does not work (short reminder of a certain patch, which was reverted very shortly after, that made it necessary for everyone in a lobby to have premium in order to play all game modes). Read more about which data we collect in our Privacy Policy.
Qualitative feeedback in Discord, Reviews, comments and DMs always helps tremendously and will continue to be our most important way of connecting with you, our community. However, sometimes to make the correct decisions you need hard data and that is exactly what we hope to achieve with this change. Information for example about which tools are used the most and what lobby settings are popular will help us build upon the good things and make it easier to decide which things to cut from the game.
Please rest assured that we will NEVER sell any of your data and handle it with the most care. If you have any questions about this integration of Game Analytics don't hesitate and reach out to our Devs in Discord.
As always, we encourage you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord server or on Twitter!
Have a good day, everyone!
Patch-Notes
Added Game Analytics
Previously joined lobbies can no longer joined via Quick Play until the game is restarted
Now automatically saving scribble in Free Draw when leaving or loading another scribble
Now automatically saving best rated scribble to history in gallery
Added Ukranian UI localization
Bugfixes
Fixed crash when finishing round
Fixed streaming players are not shown as selecting
Fixed rated player is shown in round score in Exhibition Wars!
Fixed chat history is not getting reset when duplicate is send
Fixed word language is not updated correctly for hosting player in lobby
Fixed pause menu not closing when starting editing of another scribble in Free Draw
Summer Sale 2021
We participate in the Steam Summer Sale!
Get Scribble It! - Premium Edition for 33% off. From 24th of June until 8th of July we are reducing the price of our premium edition.
We wish all of you good weather, happy days and unforgetable memories. The world is slowly healing from the pandemic. Even though the road ahead is still long and we are definitely not done with COVID19 yet, we would like to spread some love and positive thoughts to our awesome community. Stay safe and stay awesome!
All the best, Zaratusa & soeanski - the devs
Hotfix 1.4.0.2 Notes
Hotfix 1.4.0.2 is now live!
A small hotfix just went live. The readability of our new word package display was improved. We also fixed causes for game crashes that made their way into the game with 1.4.0.0 🐞
As always we encourage you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord server or on Twitter!
Have a good day, everyone!
Patch-Notes
Improved font sizes of word package details
Bugfixes
Fixed crash when clicked on players in winner screen who already left the game
Fixed crash when joining invite without selecting a language
Fixed 30 day game ban sanction is not correctly shown
Fixed official word packages are clickable
Hotfix 1.4.0.1 Notes
Hotfix 1.4.0.1 is now live!
Short information: We fixed 2 different causes of crashes and increased the contrast on all of our dialogs.
As always we encourage you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord server or on Twitter!
Have a good day, everyone!
Patch Notes
Increased contrast for all dialogs
Bugfixes
Fixed crash when votekick finishes
Fixed crash when starting match
Patch 1.4.0.0 Notes
Patch 1.4.0.0 is now live
It's been a while! But we have not been lazy since the last update. Today several big changes are coming to the game. Let's dive into what exactly changed.
As always we encourage you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord server or on Twitter!
Likely the most requested feature. Now it is finally here: From now on you if you encounter offensive, negative, or disruptive experiences you can report players via an integrated report system.
In the above screenshot you can see the reasons for reporting a player. Cases where a player receives a certain amount of reports will be reviewed by us and sanctions against this player will be put in place.
Guidelines for reporting Players
Behaviour that you should report:
Trying to game the system by writing letters on the canvas to tell others players the correct solution to a word.
Drawing inappropriate or offensive things.
Absolutely any kind of hate speech or racism.
Spamming (i.e. writing the same thing or really long paragraphs over and over again). Note: Trying to guess the word and submitting many different guesses is NOT spamming.
Offensive player names.
Behaviour that you should NOT report:
Strong language that does not insult or demean other people.
Drawing poorly but still trying.
Drawing really good.
Abuse of the report system will also result in sanctions.
New Lobby and Pause Menu UI
We are slowly but surely bringing a new, more timely UI look and feel to the game. The first step in this direction is the introduction of a new sidebar. Pressing Escape while inside a lobby or a game round will from now on open the sidebar. This allows you to easily access lobby settings and a player list. Here is a short preview on what the new UI looks like:
You can also quickly access the playerlist menu by clicking on a player in-game or in the lobby. This means if you want to mute/votekick/report or simply have a look at a player's Steam profile you can do so very quickly by clicking on said player in the player list or in the lobby. The video below shows how this works.
Improved Scoring System
We continue to make changes to the way you earn points in Scribble It! based on your feedback. With the new system a guessing player can earn a maximum of 1000 points and a drawing player can earn a maximum of 1250. Our goal is to reward drawing skills and make the scoring fair for both drawing and guessing players. In big lobbies it is really hard to have everyone make the correct guess. This means if a player is so good at drawing that a full lobby guesses the correct solution he should be rewarded accordingly. In small lobbies it is more essential that players guess fast because convincing 3 players is a lot easier than 15 but here time should be of the essence.
Various other Changes
Good news for all free-to-play players. We know that our yellow can sometimes strain the eyes a bit. Therefore we unlocked another green-ish color for all players.
Another change we made concerns the creation of word packages. You now have to accept our Word Package Guidelines everytime you are creating a new package. This is another measure to reduce the amount of obscene word packages that are being released into the wild.
Also we are happy to announce that we added Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Ukranian and Korean word packages.
Here is the full list of changes:
Patch-Notes
Added player reporting & sanctions
Added player list & lobby settings to pause menu
Added Finnish & Hungarian UI localization
Added word package guidelines
Added Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Ukranian and Korean word packages
Added
, +, ~, /, \, ", [, ], {, } to list of always revealed characters
A maximum word length of 50 characters is now enforced
Reworked the way settings are shown in the lobby
Reworked scoring system
Reworked word package display in workshop browser
Only public word packages can now be used in public lobbies
Only the host can kick players in the lobby and Free Draw now
Green UI color is now available for free-to-play users
Improved style of dialogs
Removed player survey (Thanks for the huge number of participations)
Bugfixes
Fixed changes in the options menu in-game were never saved
Fixed language code is written twice in word package editor
Fixed banned word packages could still be used for playing
Fixed word package migration causes incorrect MD5 hash
Fixed word packages with same title are randomly sorted
Fixed crash when receiving guess from player
Fixed default UI color may be set to black
Fixed crash when showing round results
Fixed crash at end of a Rate It! round
Fixed crash when loading news
Fixed various OSS crashes
May 4th Art Contest - Ends TODAY
May the 4th be with you!
In honor of the Star Wars series we are looking for amazing Star Wars themed artworks. Anything from Yoda to Jar Jar Binks... *uh* basically anything is accepted!
The best artwork will get featured as the first post on our newly created Instagram account.
You can post your Scribbles in the Steam Workshop or on our Discord server!
The contest is running until Midnight UTC-8.
Patch-Notes 1.3.4
Hotfix 1.3.4. is now live!
Hey everyone, we brought back the invite button to make playing with your friends a little easier. Note: This does is not the case on macOS as of yet. We also made some small layout changes to the newsfeed and fixed a few bugs.
See the full list of changes below.
As always we encourage you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord server or on Twitter!
Patch-Notes
Added friends invite button to lobby
Improved control settings order & naming
Improved news layout
Updated to Steam SDK 1.51
Bugfixes
Fixed text in guess input is getting deleted when tabbing back into the game
Fixed brush size hotkeys aren't working
Patch-Notes 1.3.3
Patch 1.3.3 is now live
Another update has been rolled out. Maybe you have already noticed it by reading this news from inside the game. If not go ahead and check out the new newsfeed that has found it's place in the main menu!
Another change we made affects the toolbar 😮 But don't worry we only made some small adjustments. Basically we reordered some elements and introduced a new option to select the size of the different tools. Have a look here:
Tell us what you think about the new toolbar in the comments!
We also changed the Done Button in Grand Reveal and Rate It! to be a bit more visually prominent. We hope now it get's a bit more attention from everyone.
See the full list of changes below. As always we encourage you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord server or on Twitter!
Patch-Notes
Added news section in the main menu
Moved done button below chat disabled tool bar when player is done
Reworked color selection in tool bar
Updated UI translations
Bugfixes
Fixed languages with too few translated words where not correctly removed from word packages
Fixed massive lag when selecting color with the SV-Triangle after a while
Fixed shapes could be drawn outside of the canvas without any change on the canvas
Patch-Notes 1.3.1
Patch 1.3.1 is now live
Short information: we fixed a bug that caused languages of word packages to be mixed up. Everything should be working again. Thanks for your patience!
Patch-Notes
Updated profanity filter to work properly for recently added languages
Bugfixes
Fixed title storage can only download a single file per game start
Fixed transformed word packages couldn't be loaded properly
