- Ending Ceremony: Players are now able to chat, including with players who already left to lobby
- Ending Ceremony: Added system messages to alert when players leave the ending scene, entering or leaving the lobby.
- Ending Ceremony: Players with the same score now receive the same standing
- Fix the “Gift to others” button in lobby
- Tweaked image export to better cope with special characters in file names
- Character Animation Fixes
- UI Fixes

Right in the middle of their costume party* our ink spirits have found time to go through the colourful submissions for the Halloween contest and picked their favourite drawings!

We’ve seen lots of festive fanart, adorbs ghosts, Azrael shape-shifted into a girl, successful trick-or-treating, explosions and even a new ink-spirit Jiang Shi! 👻


But now, without further ado… The winner is *Tomoko drum roll*:

✨兔子Tooza✨

Congratulations! Please stay tuned as a member of the team reaches out to discuss delivery details for your new Theo plushie.


Runner up, and receiving 1,250 ink is:
✨ cocofilbernut

Finally, third place and 850 ink go to:
✨ 76561198841535558

Thank you everyone for taking the time and effort to submit your works of arts.

Don’t forget to check out all the cool admissions by searching for “DGHalloween2024” in the screenshots section. And if you didn’t win this time, stay tuned for our next art challenge. 🎨

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃

*Did you see the new Halloween skins? Available for limited time only! 🕰️

- Azrael was a bit late to the costume party. If you want to see his costume, check out the store!
- Sketchbook Match History: fix issue where round dropdown / player dropdown was hidden behind long prompts for whisper matches
- Streaming: When audience is allowed to guess in Stage Mode, send a 3-2-1 to chat to help with timing issues
- Streaming: add SFX when *modifier voting* is over in both Stage mode & Whisper mode
- Streaming: add SFX when *word match voting* is over in Whisper mode
- small UI tweaks in Stage Mode

With today’s update, Draw & Guess adds new interactivity features targeted at Twitch streamers. So far your chat audience could watch you play – now they can play along!

On our brand-new streaming tab (added to lobby settings) choose to let them…

- vote on game modifiers
- suggest prompts
- guess along
- and/or decide whether in-game players guesses are right!

Interactive streaming settings are available for Whisper and Stage modes. ***With streaming activated, Stage does not require a minimum of 2 in-game players anymore, while the 4-player minimum requirement for Whisper still stands.

Combine streaming with our content moderation features, and you’re ready for an epic night (or day) of streaming!

- Added support for pixel art in sketchbook
- When game settings are changed, a system message is now displayed in chat, and players are set to “unready” for significant changes
- Added a “save” button to sketchbook so images can be saved without closing the draw module
- 0-9 can now be used as shortcuts to access palette colors
- Significantly improved game load times when users had many stored matches in their matchbook
- Optimised layout for Whisper-games in match-history
- UI fixes
- Added seasonal designs and special new characters!!

Ink spirits have been haunting papers and scrolls for centuries. They used to be EVERYWHERE – drifting from quill to parchment, spreading their inky magic and making mischief while people scribbled away. These digital days they hide away in dusty boxes, lurking on filled pages and whispering in forgotten journals… or find a new home in Draw & Guess!


🖋️Competition rules

• Draw an original art piece in Draw & Guess; this can be done in Lobby Drawing, Sketchbook, or in-game
  
• The artwork must contain an existing Ink spirit character (Azrael, Inx, Theo, Wildbark) or a completely new original Ink spirit character
  
• Submit your artwork to the screenshot section via Steam using the hashtag #DGHalloween2024 before October 30th 12PM UTC (8PM CST)
  
• Keep it safe for work and original (suspected bot submissions will be disregarded) 👹

✨ Awesome Prizes

• 1st Place: A real-life plushie of Theo 🧸 + 2500 Ink
  
• 2nd Place: 1250 Ink
  
• 3rd Place: 850 Ink

⏰ Important Dates

• Submissions close on: 30 October, 12:00 pm UTC (8pm CST)
  
• Winners will be announced by: 31 October, 11:00 pm UTC

- fixed a crash on startup that prevented some users from playing the game

- Players can now report players via the lobby drawing contributor list
- Last brush size is now persisted across games
- Fixed drawing on a hidden layer being possible
- Fixed “anonymous voting” option not showing up the first time you select Whisper
- Fixed Unsubscription of word lists
- Fixed layering not working correctly in sketchbook
- Fixed fill issues related to layers in sketchbook
- Fixed minor coloring issue when using content moderation

We have now launched a new system for players to evaluate their in-game experience with other players, and to address concerns relating to disruptive behaviour having a bad influence on the game experience. This update also includes a number of Content Moderation tools giving streamers more power to control game content shown on their stream.

This new score has been attributed to each player and can range from 1 (lowest) to a maximum of 5 (exceptional), with a default value of 3 (good). It will be calculated based on several factors including reports and praises by other players.

If you want to highlight that a player was especially great to play with, for example, you can praise them in the ending screen of a completed game.

In the unfortunate case that a player behaves in a harmful or intentionally disruptive way, you can report them via the report button.

To ensure players find a safe space in public lobbies, hosts can manually adjust the minimum required trust score for entering their lobbies. Said score can not be higher than the host’s score, and the score does not apply for private lobbies. When hosts select a minimum score of “1”, any player can enter their lobbies, regardless of score.

We want to ensure that players in Draw & Guess feel safe and welcome, and that everyone can focus on what the game is about: Drawing, Guessing, and having a good time. We believe the trust score is a good tool to help in that regard as it empowers players to decide themselves how they want to set up their public lobbies, and gives them a meaningful way to send feedback on others.

With this update we have added tools to moderate incoming chat, prompts, guesses and images. They all have their home on the new “Safety” tab in the general game settings, together with a handy guide explaining how they work.

In the new freely-positioned preview panel streamers can check each item submitted by other players before making them fully visible to their audience. That way streamers can more freely play in public lobbies without risking that other players disturb their stream with unfitting content.

In addition to the trust score, players and hosts can use a range of other ways to moderate their lobbies and improve their game experience. Players can mute other players in lobby, in game modes – and in lobby drawing. Muting does not affect a player’s ability to guess in the game, only their messages are not being forwarded. Hosts can kick players both in lobby and in game modes and can delete a rogue player’s drawings in lobby drawing.

We’ve added answers to many frequently asked questions to the FAQ section in the discussion board.

In the coming month we will launch a new system for players to evaluate their in-game experience with other players, and to address concerns relating to disruptive behaviour having a bad influence on the game experience.

This new score will be attributed to each player and can range from 1 (lowest) to a maximum of 5 (exceptional), with a default value of 3 (good). It will be calculated based on several factors including reports and praises by other players.

If you want to highlight that a player was especially great to play with, for example, you can praise them in the ending screen of a completed game.

In the unfortunate case that a player behaves in a harmful or intentionally disruptive way, you can report them via the report button.

To ensure players find a safe space in public lobbies, hosts can manually adjust the minimum required trust score for entering their lobbies. Said score can not be higher than the host’s score, and the score does not apply for private lobbies. When hosts select a minimum score of “1”, any player can enter their lobbies, regardless of score.

In today’s update we have rolled out the backbone of the system to gather data to evaluate our trust score algorithm. Praising and reporting features can be used as of now, but the remaining features (including the trust score itself) will only become available once that evaluation period is done.

We want to ensure that players in Draw & Guess feel safe and welcome, and that everyone can focus on what the game is about: Drawing, Guessing, and having a good time. We believe the trust score is a good tool to help in that regard as it empowers players to decide themselves how they want to set up their public lobbies, and gives them a meaningful way to send feedback on others.