Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Online Pictionary-esque game

Can't find anything to do? How about playing a little game of Sketcharoo with some one somewhere in the world? Sketcharoo? What's that? Remember the game Pictionary where you had to draw an image of a word that was presented to you on a card? Sketcharoo is like Pictionary 2.0. You can play against the computer (using previously drawn clues that you guess), or against another player (where you take turns guessing and drawing).

Careful. It's additive. It's also a research project by those wacky kiwi's down under. They say:

This project is being undertaken as part of a research project at the Department of Design Studies, Otago University. Our aim is to investigate games that translate ‘serious work tasks’ into multi-user online games and compare them to conventional online surveys. Our game ‘Sketcharoo’ is inspired by the popular game Pictionary: two players, connected via Internet, play a round of ‘guess the drawing’. One person draws, one guesses, and we log these sessions and analyse how recognisable each drawing was. This enables us to gather information about how descriptive these drawings are and also if there are significant cultural differences between user groups. At the same time we compare the game-like survey against a conventional online survey to deduct which one is more enjoyable.

I say - cool game!

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