Draw Something

[Niall]

This is even more addictive than Temple Run.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/draw-something-free/id488628250?mt=8

It's like Pictionary. I just can't stop playing it. It's so fun aslkhjg.

[Lee.]

I've been playing for days :bored:

[Niall]

I just got it today Lee. I've been playing it for like 2 hours. :joker:

[Z]

I love it :love: playing my mum atm, so much fun

[Shaun]

so is it basically pictionary

[Shaun]

omg does anyone remember iSketch :love:

[Lee.]

omg does anyone remember iSketch :love:

Yes! :love: isketch was even better than Draw Something!

[Boothy]

I'm addicted to it too, got a decent game going with Marc at the moment. God know's how, I can't draw for ****.

[Doogle]

Doogle3097 if you wanna add me.

[Niall]

-adds Dylan-

[Lee.]

Lee2201 if you want to add me :)

[Ninastar]

i sent you one through facebook niall

[Niall]

Lee2201 if you want to add me :)

-adds-

i sent you one through facebook niall

I never thought you'd get the Katniss one. :laugh:

[Ninastar]

did you like the joker one? lolol

[Niall]

The Joker one was amazing omg. :love:

I hope you like my next one. :D

[Ninastar]

it was good!

lmao at not getting scotland though, that one was hard!!

[Niall]

When I saw the Scotland one, I thought you'd drawn a bottle of water or something. :joker:

[Ninastar]

pmsl at your shrek

[Lee.]

Add me Caitlin..^

[Niall]

pmsl at your shrek

:laugh:

[Ninastar]

Add me Caitlin..^

done!

[Z]

Just started a game with you Lee!

[Smithy]

Smithy9323 feel free to add meh :amazed:

[Marc]

It's so GOOOOOOD!!!!

Add me: SketchyGinge

[Jordan.]

Yes :amazed:

I'm awful at drawing them and it makes me angry so I turn it off then 2 minutes later i'm back on :hmph:

Username: JordanJ_

[Marc]

Love this game :love:

[Glenn.]

Glenn D.

Add me *****s :idc:

[Jords]

I just downloaded it :joker:

adding yallllll

[Glenn.]

I've started games with everyone who has given their username:idc:

[Jordan.]

I've started games with everyone who has given their username:idc:

idk what it is :hmph:

[Jordan.]

Nevermind I got it :amazed:

[Glenn.]

I must apologize for my drawing :joker:

[Jords]

omg I didnt realise it was video and not just pic actually embarrassed I did loads of rubbing out and re-drawing on some :blush2: :joker:

[Jords]

Marc wtf D;

[Jordan.]

I must apologize for my drawing :joker:

The toaster you drew was amazing :nono:

[Marc]

Marc wtf D;

wut?

[Jords]

No matters LOL

[Glenn.]

My walrus was good right Marc :joker:

[Marc]

yeah really good :laugh:

[King Gizzard]

This game is about as good as standing on a plug

[Jordan.]

omg Jords you can't just draw black people on an island and expect me to guess Africa :joker:

[Jords]

Is your username your Game Center 1?

[Glenn.]

:nono:

[Marc]

No matters LOL

I tried to re-inact the shock and the explosion of the air bag :joker:

[Glenn.]

omg Jords you can't just draw black people on an island and expect me to guess Africa :joker:

:joker:

[Glenn.]

The nono was for Nathan Jords not you.

[Marc]

Jords... wut is this craziness

[Marc]

gots it lol

[Jords]

omg Jords you can't just draw black people on an island and expect me to guess Africa :joker:

The island was the shape of Afica!!! :joker:
I really didnt know what to put LOL.

[Marc]

60 in a row for me and Boothy! :thumbs:

[Marc]

I needs me some new shades of brown

[Jords]

Next 1 is easy Jordan :joker:

[Marc]

Glenn I have no idea?

[Glenn.]

I doubt Marc will get my one :idc:

[Glenn.]

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j303/GlennDines123/Ludacris.jpg

[Jords]

mvsic :laugh3:

[Marc]

:laugh: I love just writing the word cos I cba

[Jordan.]

mvsic :laugh3:

:bawling:

[Marc]

Jord's panda was cute

[Jords]

Thanks I was proud of him :bigsmile:

[Jordan.]

Jords if you want to rub it all out you can just press the trashcan button and start it again :amazed:

btw I have no idea what this blue man/robot thing is

[Jords]

ironman hhahaha I need more colours :bawling:

[Jords]

What the hell is that Marc? :suspect:

[Jordan.]

gunbrow...
sunbrow...
nunbrow...
...unibrow

:joker:

[Jords]

omg got it duhhhhh

[Z]

rofl, I started a game with Smithy, hope he doesn't think I'm a complete freak

[Jords]

gunbrow...
sunbrow...
nunbrow...
...unibrow

:joker:

:joker::joker:

I know it as a monobrow :bawling:

[Jords]

Whats your username Greg?

[Marc]

SketchyGinge - Greg add me
Xoxoxox

[Marc]

Glenn??? That country is this?

[Jords]

I googled the game SketchyGinge baha xxx

[Glenn.]

Glenn??? That country is this?

It isn't a country :idc:


xgames :whistle:

[Jords]

Glenn didnt do mine :suspect:

-cant even remember the word now LOL-

[Glenn.]

Whats your username Jords? :suspect:

[Jords]

Edit: Its Jordan W.

[Glenn.]

it says you have too many games on right now :suspect:

[Jords]

Im only playing Marc and Jordan :joker:
I sent you a game anyway :suspect:

[Glenn.]

Haven't received it :suspect:

[Glenn.]

I'm going to bed now anyway so if your sending me drawings I wont see them til tomorrow.

Good night and God speed.

[Jordan.]

I'm gonna drag myself away for the night too. Jords and his bloody towtruck :bored:

[Jords]

lmfaooooooo night!

[Jords]

Your guesses Jordan :laugh2:

Trucktie!!

[Jordan.]

Atleast I knew it was a truck :bawling:

[nicole_burks]

Niall would've never found it unless I mentioned it :hmph:


Nicole_burks add meee

[King Gizzard]

I draw an egg, and a bunny and nicole guesses rabies.

easter :bored:

[King Gizzard]

I draw an egg, and a bunny and nicole guesses rabies.

easter :bored:

[nicole_burks]

:joker:

[MTVN]

Rabies sounds like its right to me

[nicole_burks]

if you would've seen the drawing you'd understand.

[King Gizzard]

was literally a bunny and an egg, amazing drawing

[nicole_burks]

didn't even look like a bunny. or an egg

[Jords]

Addicted :amazed:

[nicole_burks]

by far the best
https://p.twimg.com/AoszkJDCQAAh6F6.jpg

[King Gizzard]

Wish this game would let you listen to your music as you play :bored:

I got an option to draw Whitney Houston earlier, bit early for that lol

[King Gizzard]

https://p.twimg.com/AouThoJCEAI7-Mu.jpg

swag

[Lee.]

Smithy, you're "ruby" made me lol!

[Ninastar]

i wrote smithy a message then I sent it by accident :( I was supposed to draw something after

[Marc]

:laugh: Add me Caitlin :love:

SketchyGinge

[Ninastar]

my iPod is charging so I will after that :D D:D

[Marc]

I'll start one with you so you have a lovely sketch waiting for you

[Smithy]

Can someone come play :sad: im so bired & I've got a 4 hour train ride and I don't want people seeing me on a bb forum

[Smithy]

Smithy, you're "ruby" made me lol!

I thought it said rugby :bawling:

[Marc]

I'm playing you Chris

[Marc]

Can someone come play :sad: im so bired & I've got a 4 hour train ride and I don't want people seeing me on a bb forum

Also ROFL I'm the same

[nicole_burks]

I can't even guess Marc's drawing.

[Marc]

key :laugh:

[Joe.]

Anyone on now, I want to play -.- Give me your username if you want a game, i'll win ofc.

[Marc]

SketchyGinge

[Lee.]

Lee2201

[Marc]

Lee BTW that was Fairy :laugh:

[Niall]

Caitlin's depiction of 'Scotland'
http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/af335/PhotoNiall/dbc67f3c.jpg

[Niall]

And my username is Niall M.

[Niall]

Smithy, that was not an oval omfg

[Smithy]

yes it was :hmph:

[Niall]

It looked like a turd

[Marc]

:bored: Nicole what the hell? :bored:

[Ninastar]

Caitlin's depiction of 'Scotland'
http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/af335/PhotoNiall/dbc67f3c.jpg

how did you not get that!?

(or did you?)

[Marc]

http://i40.tinypic.com/34sozyx.png

[Smithy]

yoyo

[Marc]

Yeah got it after I posted that, but :bored: c'mon more creativity pls

[Jords]

mine r amaze

[Marc]

no they're not.

[Jords]

but they r

[Smithy]

Glenn is the new Picasso :love:

[Marc]

Glenn's are good.

[Glenn.]

:joker:

[King Gizzard]

username ponyking

add me yo

[Marc]

username ponyking

add me yo

Oh crap I just started a game with 'ponytail' instead

[King Gizzard]

i had an account through my facebook but I screwed that up

[King Gizzard]

Seriously though, I am the worst at this game

[King Gizzard]

My fingers are too big for the ipod touch screen

[King Gizzard]

I think I've seen most of the words used on here..the same ones come up now..I've had to do carwash about 438344387 times

[Glenn.]

I have to charge my phone so gonna have to put the games on hold for a bit :bored:

Marc we're past 40 turns :amazed:

[Marc]

I'm at almost 100 with Boothy :idc:

[King Gizzard]

Don't think me and Glenn will be getting any further with my latest one

[Ninastar]

my highest is like 23 :sad:

[Smithy]

caitlin we were near 30 when you ****ed up :nono:

[Marc]

just cheat :idc:

[Marc]

nathan seems to think spiders have 6 legs :idc:

[Doogle]

just cheat :idc:

What's the point, that's boring and dishonest :nono:

[Ninastar]

caitlin we were near 30 when you ****ed up :nono:

:sad:

[Marc]

What's the point, that's boring and dishonest :nono:

f off

[Doogle]

f off
-deletes our drawsomething game-

[Marc]

you can if you want, your drawings are awful :idc:

[Doogle]

As are yours.

[Marc]

:laugh: Oh dear poor Dylan, doesn't know expertise when he sees it.

[King Gizzard]

Marc for fog: fog

well done sir

[Doogle]

Oh yeah and which one of you morons did "prom" and wrote the word prom on the picture :bored:

tbf I did a mailbox and wrote mail on it but idc

[Marc]

can't draw fog can ya

[Niall]

how did you not get that!?

(or did you?)

It looked like a person in a dress to me. :joker:

[Lee.]

Marc! You and I were over 30 for a while..... until your "pitbull" :bored:

[Jords]

Oh yeah and which one of you morons did "prom" and wrote the word prom on the picture :bored:

tbf I did a mailbox and wrote mail on it but idc
Yes, yes you did :idc:

[King Gizzard]

wtf.. I just got an option to do ''omggirlz''

what the **** is that

[Glenn.]

Oh yeah and which one of you morons did "prom" and wrote the word prom on the picture :bored:

tbf I did a mailbox and wrote mail on it but idc

I did :nono:

And also a pair of stick people dancing.

[nicole_burks]

:bored: Nicole what the hell? :bored:
http://i40.tinypic.com/34sozyx.png

I actually didn't draw that :laugh3: I gave my phone to this guy and told him to draw a yoyo:joker:

[nicole_burks]

My sisters drawing of me http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1h672pdI51qfrj7t.png

Nathans beautiful drawing:
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1h678FplQ1qfrj7t.png

[King Gizzard]

Apparently the guy who created it was worth only a couple grand last week, and now it's taken off its worth/its sold for 200m or something

[King Gizzard]

and:

Rodrigo Mazzilli ‏ @rodmaz
Mobile and growth: AOL took 9 years to get to 1 million users. Facebook took 9 months. Game "Draw Something" took 9 days!

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i remember playing this like last year with tommy ~sohipster

[King Gizzard]

It hasn't been around that long :suspect:

[King Gizzard]

Draw Something developer OMGPOP bought by Zynga for rumoured $210m

Social games giant bids high and early to prevent viral hit falling into rivals' hands


Zynga's acquisition of OMGPOP has got the mobile games industry all shook up

Zynga has bought games developer OMGPOP for a rumoured $210m, just seven weeks after the latter's Draw Something game was released for iOS and Android.

The New York-based developer will continue to develop the Pictionary-esque game, while also working on new mobile IP for Zynga, reporting to the publisher's chief mobile officer David Ko.

In that first seven weeks, Draw Something was downloaded 35m times, and on the day the acquisition was announced (21 March) it had 13.3m daily active users, 4.8m more than Zynga's most popular social game Words With Friends.

The game is a bona-fide craze, but OMGPOP has worked hard to become an overnight success. The company was founded in 2009, and released 35 social games before Draw Something. That's reminiscent of Rovio, which famously developed 51 mobile games before striking gold with Angry Birds.

Neither Zynga nor OMGPOP has officially confirmed the $210m figure yet, but TechCrunch reports that it's $180m up front plus a potential $30m earnout payment, and GigaOm backs that up.

The acquisition – and specifically that figure – has sent shockwaves through the mobile games industry. There are a lot of developers pouring scorn on Zynga for paying such a large sum for what they perceive to be a fortunate one-hit company.

That said, every developer I've talked to admits they would have taken the money without a second thought if they were in OMGPOP's position.

Many wonder why Zynga didn't simply clone the game and spend big (but not $200m big) on user acquisition. And there are a fair few developers fretting that this deal is a sign that the mobile games industry is locked in a freemium-fuelled bubble heading for an inevitable pop. No pun intended.

There are some clear reasons why Zynga bought OMGPOP, and why it paid so much. Buying Draw Something so rivals couldn't is one of those.

Japanese social games companies GREE and DeNA are both rich enough to hold wallet-waving matches against Zynga, and both are mustard-keen to beef up their presence in the West. DeNA acquired US social-mobile games company ngmoco for $403m (including earnout) in October 2010, while GREE paid $104m for rival OpenFeint in April 2011.

Given those previous deals, Zynga's decision to bid high and early for OMGPOP is more understandable. Its job now is to ensure players don't get bored with Draw Something and melt away – or if they do, to ensure they melt away to Zynga's other mobile games.

So what else now? OMGPOP will continue adding new features to Draw Something, including chat and the ability to save scribblings for posterity.

"Zynga offered us a chance to focus on Draw Something. They know the power of the game and they planned with us how to let it keep rolling in the same fun, irreverent and social way that it has been," writes OMGPOP chief executive Dan Porter on Zynga's blog.

"That was really important to us. And they are working with us on everything else – improving performance issues in the game, planning for new games, finding even more developers to work on the game and more… So to players of the game, don't worry. Nothing's changing and now all the features you want – chat and sharing and galleries and more – will come even faster."

Other independent studios with a hit (or more) will be considering their own possible valuations, and hoping for DeNA, GREE and other big games companies to go on their own acquisition sprees to hoover up popular mobile titles and scale up their player networks.

And if OMGPOP is worth $210m, what does that mean for the valuation of Rovio? Angry Birds is now well over 700m downloads in its various incarnations, with new title Angry Birds Space making its debut today (22 March).

The Angry Birds games had 30m daily active users in October 2011, and likely more now, with a proven secondary revenue stream (25m plush toy sales so far) and all manner of other spin-offs on the way.

Yet if its valuation is inflated further by OMGPOP's selling price, the pool of companies that could afford to buy Rovio shrinks further too, nudging it further towards an IPO, or a sale to an entertainment giant like Disney rather than a fellow games firm.

The real lesson of Draw Something, though, is the dizzying pace of the mobile apps industry right now. A game that launched on 1 February accumulated 35m downloads in seven weeks before its creator was sold – if the reports are true – for $210m.

This is the scale with which new digital brands are emerging in the apps world. The question now is which will be next – and just how frenzied will the acquisition scramble be around it?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/mar/22/draw-something-zynga-acquisition

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

it has i was playing it in like april last year maybe even before :hmph:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

that was on the omgpop site idk how long the app has been around or w/e but that game itself is old

[King Gizzard]

I bet pictionary are pissed they never thought of doing it on mobiles

[Marc]

ROFL Glenn

http://t.co/LYsvd7cs

[Me. I Am Salman]

LOOOL that looks like Chris Brown berzz

[Marc]

Marc! You and I were over 30 for a while..... until your "pitbull" :bored:

I have no idea what you just drew me...

[Me. I Am Salman]

I want an iPhone
Stupid Blackberry >:[

[Lee.]

I have no idea what you just drew me...

The shark one? You got that!

[Z]

Just played everyone back, sorry about that Lee!

[Lee.]

Sorry about what Greg? Ring? I thought you made that easy. :)

[Z]

Rofl well until my hammy hands did a rubbish colouring in job on it!

[Marc]

If it's worth so much money and the game is really that successful then surely they can afford to add more words to it :bored: I keep getting the same words over and over, e.g. birthday and ladygaga

[Boothy]

MARC, GUESS MINE AND WE MADE IT TO 99!!

/excitement

[Marc]

:amazed: -gets it wrong-

[Glenn.]

ROFL Glenn

http://t.co/LYsvd7cs

:joker:

I had a chuckle myself when I drew it :joker:

[Niall]

If it's worth so much money and the game is really that successful then surely they can afford to add more words to it :bored: I keep getting the same words over and over, e.g. birthday and ladygaga

If you get the paid version it gives you more words.

[nicole_burks]

Lee, Venus is not the first planet from the sun :bored:

[Smithy]

rofl

[Lee.]

Oi! I put mercury!

[nicole_burks]

you started to put venus

[Lee.]

Hahaha... I just saw planet and those were the letters I saw first..:blush2:

[nicole_burks]

wtf smithy :bored:

[Glenn.]

Marc I don't know what that is? :conf: and I'm not breaking the streak :bawling:

[King Gizzard]

i just deleted the app

got boring, quickly

[Jordan.]

I'm getting bored of it now, I know 90% of the answers because it's the same words.

[King Gizzard]

yeah i've drawn carwash and campfire at least 10 times each

[Jordan.]

Been getting some quite sexually explicit drawings from Boothy recently, bloody vile

http://i.imgur.com/5v2B1.png

[CharlieO]

I am addicted to this now :mad:

Add me anyone. Username: CharlieOs

[Lee.]

I've added you Charlie :)

[nicole_burks]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1rezjDur01qfrj7t.png
Lee :bored:

[Marc]

Marc I don't know what that is? :conf: and I'm not breaking the streak :bawling:

has you got it

[Marc]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1rezjDur01qfrj7t.png
Lee :bored:

:laugh: That penis is massive!

[CharlieO]

Or yours is just small

:/

[Marc]

It's thicker than his leg! :laugh:

[Doogle]

Cba with this game now, it feels like a chore when you have 20+ games going on :bored:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i had this installed for like 20 minutes then i deleted it coz im so cool

[Marc]

Cba with this game now, it feels like a chore when you have 20+ games going on :bored:

Yeah I feel the same, I have about 30 games LOL

[Lee.]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1rezjDur01qfrj7t.png
Lee :bored:
Hahaha! How else was I supposed to draw "pee"?

[nicole_burks]

Hahaha! How else was I supposed to draw "pee"?
:joker: when i first drew it i just drew pee in a toilet, now that other people have drawn it like 3 people drew it like that.

i drew it like that for my mom too :laugh2:

[King Gizzard]

5/04/2012 @ 9:23AM |161,144 views
Draw Something Loses 5M Users a Month After Zynga Purchase


We may be seeing the beginnings of a lesson as to why it’s not always the best idea to buy your competition outright. Mobile giant Zynga’s game development philosophy has always been, “If you can’ beat ‘em, buy ‘em,” followed by the less welcome “If you can’t buy ‘em, clone ‘em.”

In short, for nearly every game that hits number one on the mobile charts, Zynga will try to buy that company, and if they can’t, they’ll just make an eerily similar version of the game themselves. Most recently, Draw Something developer OMGPOP agreed to a Zynga takeover for the cool sum of $200M. Draw Something was exploding in popularity, and the purchase seemed like a good bet.

But now the move might seem equivalent to a company buying huge amounts of stock in Pogs or Members Only jackets without realizing that some things that are popular are merely fads. When you buy a company based on one specific success rather than a string of proven titles, you’re setting yourself up for potential disaster.

A new report shows that in the past month, Draw Something has lost nearly 5M Daily Active Users (DAUs), bringing the total down to 10M from 15M when Zynga first made the purchase. A drop that severe has assuredly set off some alarm bells.

Zynga has already put into place an advertising plan for the game which has companies paying to have their words appear to be drawn by players. Think “Doritos” or “Pepsi” or “The Avengers.” This move is to combat the fact that unlike games such as Farmville, Mafia Wars, etc, there really aren’t a lot of fake items that can be sold within the game for real world cash, other than a few new color options.

Zynga’s problem is that they didn’t bother to make sure Draw Something had staying power, something you would think would be required to shell out $200M for a company. Speaking as one of those 5M who can no longer be bothered with the game, it just got to be more work than fun once the novelty of iPhone Pictionary wore off. Yes, five of my friends all told me to download it a month ago, but after a few weeks of back and forths with confusing and repetitive words, it just was too much of an effort to keep up with games. This is not “Words with Friends” where you can take a minute and pick out a word to play. Rather, you have to draw a picture or a series of pictures to get your concept across, which is about ten times as time consuming.

The winner in all of this? The higher-ups of OMGPOP, who sold their company during the exact moment when it was worth the most. Even if DAUs sink to zero, they’ve still made their money and left Zynga holding the bag. Granted, it’s not what anyone working on a game wants to see for their creation, but they must know that if they had waited just one more month to sell, they wouldn’t have been able to command anywhere near that price after losing so many users. Whatever happens with the game now, they’ve made out like bandits.


http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/05/04/draw-something-loses-5m-users-a-month-after-zynga-purchase/