Doodle or Die - our "bizarrely addictive" Node Knockout game (opens in new tab)

Oops, I think I just broke it. I scrolled right down the list of past chains (utterly ingenious, by the way) before finishing my newest task and submitting it, and now I get an internal server error.

This is a favorite of mine, though I know it as "Eat Poo You Cat".

A narrower marker or a real color selector would both be nice.

The server appears to be down now, though.

I'm happy to answer any questions about the game or using Node.

Please add a way to link to these chains! Some of them are quite funny and worth sharing.

You can greatly decrease your load by making each thread link-able and then linking to each, not displaying _all_ of them each time.

It censors all of my penises!

it is extremely slow, how come?

Fantastic game. If I may, I would enjoy more colors, and/or overlapping colors to mix/kinda fight over transparency issus.. but that's just the wanna be painter in me. I want it to be more like actually painting.. and that just gave me a brilliant idea for destorying ms paint and whathaveyous....

also, my productivity just dropped to zero...

I'm kind of impressed with how quickly I encountered dicks. I guess this is chat roulette 2.0. Really fun and impressive work otherwise though.

You might want to include more object requests that contain words beyond "shit", "piss", "nigga" (oh yea, it was there!) ... etc. Seriously, the concept is cool, your drawing requests are ridiculous.

Seems like more die than doodle.. HTTP 500's.

wonderful. how can I contact you?

Bug report: Drawing lines erases big bits of the drawing near to the line (on iPad). Eg, draw a NE SW diagonal, then draw another diagonal NW SE, the first one gets erased.

Awesome, great work! One minor thing: if you draw outside of the canvas you lose the drag event and have to click to draw again. Makes drawing in large areas frustrating.

I was also confused what the ordering was, and I still find the output a bit difficult to follow. I didn't know if I should find my picture and read up, or read down.

This is really great, I've been playing for the past hour. If you guys made this into a scalable site with a few more features, you might have a hit on your hands.

You must draw: collapsed trampoline with piss all over

It started off as the Sun.

I love this game.

Tracking 'latest' changes would be nice, once you've played for a while, it's hard to find all the recent updates.

Also, I like identifying pictures more than drawing. If there are others who like drawing more, it would be nice to be given a preference so you get those more often, e.g. "I prefer identifying/I prefer drawing".

An excellent game. I also second the idea for saving them, perhaps bash.org style?

Couldn't sleep last night, stumbled across this, laughed my ass off until I was tired, slept like a baby. Great fun, and thank God for making so many people hilariously terrible drawers.

And wondered what would result if we could have a chain with say Vermeer/Michelangelo/Da Vinci/etc. In fact the history of art can be summarized as a doodle chain, if we want to be very silly!

Also, there's no surprise that it's addictive, because you didn't include a natural place to stop. Every time you submit something, you're immediately given something new to do, no break inbetween! Of course people are going to have a hard time stopping.

Edit: Let me also add, it's not immediately obvious that there's a way to see what becomes of your chains if you don't keep going.

(Also there's too many people who will just totally ignore what they're supposed to do, but others have already said that and I have no idea what you can actually do about that.)

Edit: Also, the mismatch between the drawing box size and the display box size can be a problem if the boundaries of the picture matter.

I think it would be good if you added support for (or just switched to :) ) starting with a description rather than starting with a drawing. I think that tends to be funnier. Especially here -- the drawing interface is annoying, so people will start with something that's easy to draw rather than something more interesting. (Whereas I think people will be more willing to draw something complicated if they already have a description. I certainly am. :) )

Edit: Might I also add, that starting with simpler things is implicitly encouraged also means you get long chains of things like "balloon... balloon... balloon...".

Two ideas. Maybe some people would like only to draw or only to describe doodles. Though I don't know how this would affect the game. And a troll button for marking intentional chain-breakers. If enough people mark the troll then you could remove his image/description and recover the chain.

Some of my favorite (parts of) chains: http://i.imgur.com/52307.png http://i.imgur.com/SnT6r.png http://i.imgur.com/KhMql.png

Was playing with my kids and a few dicks popped in, give it some warning guys!

Now getting a 500:

Express 500 Error: notConnected

    at [object Object].executeCommand (/home/node/local/lib/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongodb/db.js:708:41)
    at Collection.findOne (/home/node/local/lib/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongodb/collection.js:753:11)
    at /home/node/local/lib/node_modules/connect-mongo/lib/connect-mongo.js:143:16
    at MongoStore._get_collection (/home/node/local/lib/node_modules/connect-mongo/lib/connect-mongo.js:92:19)
    at MongoStore.get (/home/node/local/lib/node_modules/connect-mongo/lib/connect-mongo.js:142:8)
    at Object.session [as handle] (/home/node/local/lib/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/session.js:319:11)
    at next (/home/node/local/lib/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/http.js:198:15)
    at IncomingMessage. (/home/node/local/lib/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/bodyParser.js:74:9)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:61:17)
    at HTTPParser.onMessageComplete (http.js:133:23)

Very nice. Played this game on paper at a big family reunion. It was hilarious.

This was also the premise of the site: http://brokenpicturetelephone.com/

Unfortunately it's been "under development" for about a year...

It might help perceived performance to load the drawing widget before loading all the previous chains... as it is I have to wait for the entire page to load before I can start drawing again.

How is this a game? It's awesomely entertaining, but I'm not sure it's considered an actual game if there isn't some sort of goal.

...even if the goal is 'have fun' :)

Nicely done you sucked me in for a few drawings :-)

Have you seen http://thesentencegame.com/ ?

Similar to:

BrokenPictureTelephone.com

Was a great game back when it actually existed.

Really loving it, haven't laughed so hard in a while! But then it fell over :(

when the box closes in on you does that mean you took too much time? is that the "or die" part?

This is awesome! You got my vote

when I tried to draw "procrastination" it killed the server, apparently.

looks like its suffering with load at the moment!