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Salt The Fries Dec 23, 2014 @ 7:53pm
Drawful help!
How do you erase parts you've drawn? It seems a bit harsh to not be able to make any mistakes! Especially for us poor draw-type peeps like me!
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Aguilobo Dec 24, 2014 @ 9:53am 
I don't think you can erase anything once you've drawn it. It can make drawing difficult, I agree, but it's also fun to laugh at others' (and your own) attempts.
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Jackbox Games  [developer] Jan 5, 2015 @ 9:54am 
There is no erase function.
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Corvus May 2, 2015 @ 5:48pm 
Originally posted by Jackbox Games:
There is no erase function.

there really should be
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Salt The Fries May 2, 2015 @ 6:05pm 
Or if no "Erase" then "Start over" ...
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Jackbox Games  [developer] May 27, 2015 @ 9:18am 
It's called Drawful for a reason, embrace your terrible drawings. We discussed an erase function but ultimately decided we didn't want to include it for two reasons. First of all, it would take too long if everyone wanted to erase/start over with every mistake and second it puts an unnecessary pressure on players to have a quality drawing.
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Salt The Fries May 27, 2015 @ 11:34am 
I only suggest start over since apparently erase is too complex... I am a developer myself and know the complexity that would be involved.

Say I want to draw a "Olympic javelin thrower", maybe I'd first draw the spear, but quickly decide that I want to draw the person throwing the spear. Trouble is, now the spear goes DIRECTLY through the persons head and it becomes a murder scene instead of the tame drawing because I can't erase the lines behind the head.


My point is that in order to produce a drawing, I HAVE to plan every aspect of the drawing IN ADVANCE which requires a lot higher degree of skill then would otherwise be available to me.
Taking too long is moot since there's a timer.

In our larger games, we've found the workarounds of not having erase are particularly punishing since players have to black-out entire sections to redact a mistake and start over with an extremely limited space. It's for this reason that we tend NOT to favor Drawful and instead go for physical versions like Telestrations, where a quick flick of the finger will erase a line.

Ah well. Enough rambling for me, if you've made it this far, WOW!! Thank you =) :winkkit::8bitheart:
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