In Facebook, we have seen and used many kinds of games that put some more interest on the social network. However, until recently, not many games can reflect the basic point of social network; most games cannot provide the positive points of interacting with other players in real time. Draw My Thing can be one of the best games on Facebook since ever with the possibility to have online chat right in the middle of the game.
Draw My Thing Pros: great interface with the possibility to kick out cheaters. The games can be played by up to seven players together at once. Not only text chat, but also voice chat is accessible in the game. As the name says, this game play is about drawing with some good tools to develop creativity.
Draw My Thing Cons: Since all players are online, they can quit anytime they want; it can be very difficult to find a game that is continuously going on. The players and hosts will quit anytime they need and the game suddenly has less interest in it. The drawing activity is sometimes very hard as well; objects are too abstract at certain point. The worst is that some people keep on cheating all the time. Although players can report and kick out cheaters, some of them refuse to do that.
If you are familiar with Pictionary, Draw My Thing will be like the online version of it. The game play is similar in many ways as well. Players will join in a chat-room environment and they need to draw a particular object that brings up a keyword. Each of the players has 60 seconds to finish the drawing. Once the image is finished, other players will guess and correct answers are rewarded by points. The player who drew the image in the first time will make points by delivering picture that made sense without cheating. A player who gains most points wins. Depending on the number of players, a single game play can last for quite sometime. Players can share the artworks with friends if they wish to do that.
Actually, Draw My Thing has been wandering in the virtual world for years. The developer, OMGOP, makes available a portal where approximately eight million active users play each month. In Facebook, it has reached 1.8 million monthly users so far. On the portal made available by the developer, Draw My Thing hardly reaches more than two users in every game, but in Facebook, a game played by seven people is a usual. Draw My Thing is very simple; the game is fun and creative while in the same time interactive chat is there to access.
Unfortunately, as many online games ever, cheating is always a problem. Some players will write down the word, which is actually supposed to be guessed. The worse cons is that the players will not likely to report the behavior.
If only, Draw My Thing were impossible for cheaters, it could be the best game on Facebook we have so far.
