Hello again,
It’s been a few month since our 1.0 update and we're excited to bring you a fresh, experimental feature: The AI Update!
We’ve developed something really cool we’d like to share with you, which will add some additional variance to your parties: This update adds an image recognition AI to the our steam client players. If you enable the AI in your game and join a party as a watch mode, the AI will then start to recognize the images that have been drawn in that party. So rather than generating new images, the AI is taking your hand-drawn images as an input and tries to figure out what you drew. We then apply additional logic to contextualize them within the game and then feed it back into the guesses for the drawing, making it harder to guess what the right answer is. The AI guess shows up as a normal guess, but qualifies as a fake guess, so whoever pick the wrong AI guess loses a few points.
We think this a really fun and ethical appliciance of AI in our game. It not only rewards clear drawing skills but also encourages players to think outside the box with their guesses, as the AI handles the more predictable responses. It’s also just really fun to see what the AI thinks you drew.
To clarify: The AI features are entirely optional and do require a robust CPU for optimal performance. If you prefer not to use the AI, you can opt out during game startup or disable it in the settings menu. Note that these new mechanics are active only when at least one player in watch mode has the AI feature enabled. The number of active AIs in your party lobby will be displayed alongside the count of regular players. The feature currently only works if you use English as your language for the party.
We're eager to hear your thoughts and look forward to your feedback!