Comments on: XSketch: Play Pictionary Online With Random People

By: Codeshepherd

Codeshepherd — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:05:46 +0000

another online multi player game done right!

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:59:36 +0000

JavaScript is more than capable of producing really amazing games.
I’m not sure why Ryan chose to use flash for the drawing part when Canvas support (along with excanvas) is available in every major browser (IE6, IE7, IE8, FireFox 2+, Safari, Opera).
I mean requiring flash kind of defeats the whole purpose of doing it in JavaScript

I’m sure Ryan will continue to create new multiplayer games with JavaScript.

I’ve done one game so far with JavaScript, but I think it shows off how you can make some really amazing things without using flash at all: http://worldofsolitaire.com

The future for JavaScript based games looks bright

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:37:22 +0000

isketch almost made me fail my degree course. I love it so

By: Andy Triboletti

Andy Triboletti — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:56:55 +0000

I developed a pictionary like guess the word game for Facebook as well.

Check it out if you like:
http://apps.facebook.com/playscribble

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:33:27 +0000

+1 for iSketch.

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:57:55 +0000

This is pretty neat. There are a lot of advanced javascript games coming out now. When a year ago you needed flash for it, now you can do it with javascript. Check out http://www.pattrns.com which is a pure javascript game for matching patterns, similar to set–it is also addidictive

By: Ryan Spahn

Ryan Spahn — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:52:40 +0000

Never heard of either service, nevertheless, cool idea!

By: Introducing XSketch! | GWT Site

Introducing XSketch! | GWT Site — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:36:18 +0000

[…] wizardry. All of his games have been featured on Techcrunch and it looks like Michael Arrington is a big fan. I would suggest he write a book… oh wait, he already […]

By: jim

jim — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:19:03 +0000

Another iSketch fan. The movies category is the best!

By: See-ming Lee

See-ming Lee — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:15:20 +0000

@Michael

It needs Shockwave, not to be confused with Flash.

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:06:57 +0000

Funny how the same ideas come around again. Like some of the commenters above, I used to play iSketch. I was pretty addicted to it back in the day! You can easily waste hours on it.

By: siep

siep — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:27:50 +0000

http://www.collab.nl anyone ?

By: Ryan Dewsbury

Ryan Dewsbury — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:22:20 +0000

I was playing with some kdice friends on isketch last year and we thought it would be great to add this type of game to the statistics and competition structure already set up with gpokr and kdice. So it’s definitely inspired by isketch. However, you’ll find less drawing tools and that guessing ends as soon as you guess a word with xsketch - so the game has a different feel.

By: Stephie

Stephie — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:20:42 +0000

Cafe.com has the same game up to 6 players… u don’t need to register in order to play, it’s flash based and another good thing also is the ability to use boosts to get ahead of the opponent.
http://www.cafe.com/Free_Games/Sketch-it!

By: Powell

Powell — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:11:47 +0000

Who is this guy? I keep hearing about him at every GWT forum I go to. Does he work with Google or something??
I’m really impressed with kdice.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:04:31 +0000

I never liked Shockwave’s InkLink…

I do love the Community in iSketch, they moderate themselves very well.. and being Canadian I always found the US rooms easier for the names of stuff, but I do need to remember some spelling differences.

iSketch does not make me sign up for an account either. And there are no weird glitches where you can’t draw, and you don’t need to pay to play better games.

hm.

By: Medical hand

Medical hand — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:01:34 +0000

This game is somehow silly. I don’t like to play such games but the idea is good.

By: !Sarcastic

!Sarcastic — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:01:06 +0000

Gooddd!!! i’d almost started writting a simmilar app … and wanted to publish it ..thinking it’s an unique idea!! thank god I read this article!

By: James Paden

James Paden — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:46:58 +0000

And Yahoo’s been doing this for years too (Java based)

By: Andrew C.

Andrew C. — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:46:42 +0000

Shockwave has also had a game for at least 6+ years (I remember playing in high school…) called InkLink that is almost exactly the same.

By: Jeff J.

Jeff J. — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:44:39 +0000

Just checked the page source, XSketch is a hybrid of GWT and Flash. The page itself was generated via GWT, and the portion you draw on in the middle is Flash.

By: TCS

TCS — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:42:46 +0000

Ryan is godlike!

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:39:16 +0000

Yup - another iSketch vote. XSketch doesn’t look much newer or more improved over that much older Pictionary social app that we’ve been using before Web 2.0 became a real term.

By: Jigs

Jigs — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:37:24 +0000

oh…um I just went to the site and the game IS in flash. nevermind about all that javascript talk.

By: Jigs

Jigs — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:36:09 +0000

It just needs flash, Michael.

And ditto on the playing isketch for 5+ years. I think flash is better suited for browser games than javascript anyway, but its nice to see that the author was able to write the game in JS.