Drawify

Drawify   |   2012-2016   | iOS game Database engineering by Stephen Williams UI design by Tina Hochkogler

Drawify was a social drawing game for iPhone devices, based on Paper Telephone.

In the pen and paper version of Paper Telephone, players alternate between describing a drawing and making an illustration to match a description. Over several rounds of (mis)communication, tangents are explored in often unexpectedly hilarious directions.

Other Paper Telephone implementations tend to rely on synchronous play and a single story thread. I realised that the game could just as well be played asynchronously, with branching narratives to prevent the story from stalling and to open up more possibilities. A single story in Drawify never has to end - it can just keep on branching and developing without end.