Drawful

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Drawful
Drawful game tile
Drawful game tile
Internal name Drawful
Part of The Jackbox Party Pack
Game type Drawing
Hosted by Catherine Rich
Number of players 3-8
Game duration 15 Minutes
Languages English
Genre Party
Director Arnie Niekamp
Website jackboxgames.com
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Drawful (stylized as drawful) is a party video game and one of five games featured in The Jackbox Party Pack. It is the first game in the Drawful series.

Gameplay

The game starts out by giving out a prompt that the players have to accurately draw to the best of their abilities in the alloted time, of which they won't have an eraser or undo button to redo their strokes.

Once all the drawings have been submitted, a random drawing is shown from someone and everyone else has to type out a lie that they think fits that drawing.

After all players submit their fake prompts, all the lies are shown on-screen, of which all the other players will then have to vote on which one is the original drawing. Players can also like a lie after they've chosen a prompt.

When everyone's voted, the game will reveal the players who chose one of the fake prompts and show who submitted it; the liar get 500 points per player fooled by their lie. The people who chose the truth will get 1,000 points whilst the original artists gains 1,000 points per player who chose their truth.

An additional thing to add is if somebody doesn't submit their lie, their prompt gets replaced with one of the game's decoy answers, which will subtract 500 points for every person who picked it.

In the case that there's 6 players or less, another round will be played with the exact same rules, but with different prompts.

Once all of the drawings throughout all rounds (if any,) all the scores are tallied up and the person with the most points wins.

Development

Trivia

  • This is the only game in the Drawful series that the game's decoy lies deducts points from a player. The other games' decoys won't affect the original player's scores when picked.
  • Just like Fibbage XL and Fibbage 2, you weren't able to "unlike" a post after you've already liked it.
  • Before the Drawful Owl was introduced, the original host of this game was originally going to be an octopus-like animal, with Arnie Neikamp as the host. This, however, was rejected.[1]
  • Along with Drawful 2, this was one of the games in the series where likes don't give out extra points.
  • This is also the only Drawful of which the lies don't wrap around the drawing for the entirety of the round, as the lies get "stacked" together once all votes are in.
  • This game uses the font American Typewriter[2].

References

  1. The Jackbox blog specifying Drawful's history, as well as showing how Arnie was going to be Drawful's host. - https://www.jackboxgames.com/blog/making-the-jackbox-party-pack
  2. The American Typewriter font - https://www.myfonts.com/es/collections/american-typewriter-font-itc