Identificationary, a modest drawing game

[Master Jademus Sreg]

Identificationary is a drawing game in the style of Pictionary: each round, each player has a turn to draw a picture while other players attempt to identify it. Players who correctly guess the identity of a drawing score points, used to determine the winner or winners, depending on the victory type.

I decided to make the map in response to the dissatisfaction of playing Pictionnary; it doesn't support mouse-input, relying instead on the primitive order-around-a-probe approach. Since Ricky couldn't be bothered to improve his map, I was compelled to make my own. It's small and modest, and includes all the features I thought desirable. It's designed to be played by friends and other folks who won't take it too seriously; it's not the sort of game that merits elaborate mechanisms to prevent abuses.

Special thanks to Shadow_Killer (modeller), Rao_Dao_Zao for publishing in the EU region for me and those brave few who helped test it on Battlenet.

Features:

• Mouse-input drawing and erasing
• Gap correction
• Text input field
• Scale, color, and opacity sliders
• Color preview and slider gauges
• Time, Score, Round and Endless victory types
• Adjustable drawing time and dot limit
• Supports up to 14 players and spectators

Controls:

• Left-click to draw
• Right-click to erase
• C key to clear the board

The map is available in the US and EU regions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6sNqbjQKvMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41HeNzcCx8E

[Lavarinth]

Impressive.

[Master Jademus Sreg]

Bro hug bumps are in order.

[Lavarinth]

What in the world did I just read?

[Alevice]

SBaHJ bro

[Master Jademus Sreg]

I need a video demo; who can I solicit to do this?

[Lavarinth]

Well, you can either wait for Friday or see who's on tonight. I'll be home in about two hours from this time (5:30 PST, -8) if you want to have me join you to do it tonight.

[Master Jademus Sreg]

I'm having trouble on the technical end; it's impractical to upload a 30 second, 1.38 GB video to youtube, so I'm working on finding a way to reduce the filesize. ffdshow crashes, vdub has an inexplicable lack of codecs, and I'm in the process of acquiring Adobe Premier. But if anyone would like to spare me the trouble and fraps-compress-youtube that shit for me, by all means, one can even do it alone.

[Alevice]

weird you cant use virtual dub, for all my encoding needs it has worked. please note that you need to download the respective codecs on their own, however, and i would recommend xvid for this particular need.

[Master Jademus Sreg]

Uploaded a short, silent demo video and embedded it in the first post.

[Master Jademus Sreg]

Updated the first post with a new demo video.

[Lavarinth]

Question, Jade, what are you using to input the drawing? A left click or right click? I'm very curious as to how this would react to a tablet I have.

[Master Jademus Sreg]

Single left click. I designed the map to compliment my tablet control scheme. Left-click to draw, Right-click to erase.

Map updated.

Changes:

• Increased scale max to 6.0
• Added Infinite option to Drawing Time game attribute
• Added gap correction
• Added color preview
• Added slider gauges
• Improved lighting

[Master Jademus Sreg]

Publishing updated. Map is now available in the EU.

[Master Jademus Sreg]

Map updated.

Changes:

• Improved loading screen and added preview image
• Changed to a lower-poly dot model (2 tris, 4 polys)
• Adjusted dot model size and scale options
• Added Dot Limit lobby option
• Added Time victory type lobby option
• Adjusted various lobby options
• Opened additional player slots
• Fixed a bug associated with spectators
• Scoreboard height now scales to initial players

It should be available in the EU by tomorrow.