Making a Picture Drawing Party Game

By Erick Engelke
June 5, 2025

This article talks about writing a pictionary styled party game where the computer guesses what you’ve drawn. It works on all sorts of Web capable devices like phones, computers, tablets, etc.

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You can play the game HERE.

The game uses responsive design, so that the drawing square and the output text and buttons are positioned nicely for both Phones and computers. You can learn more about responsive design here.

When making a game, there are important things to consider:

  • how easy is it to use

  • how fast can it load - people don’t want to wait forever

  • how fast can it work once loaded - will it scale with multiple users doing things concurrently

  • how fun/addictive can it be

This particular game leverages AI to make guesses, but most games do not.

I would suggest keeping it as simple as possible. Slow devices and poor network connections are common.

I recommend starting with something simple and growing it. Whether you are doing an arcade game or whwatever, it’s a lot easier to fix something when its still in a simple state before you have thousands of lines of code.