Version 1.3.1 is out now. You can now play in Simplified Chinese, and add a thumbnail to the videos you save.
Note: Players on v1.3.0 or earlier can't join the same room as players on v1.3.1, so make sure everyone in your group updates.
Thanks for playing Drawaoke! I read the 👍👎 ratings you give songs on the answer screen and use them to guide updates. If you run into a bug, please report it with the "Report a bug" button on the title screen so I can fix it quickly.
Play in Simplified Chinese
- The game's text and songs are now available in Simplified Chinese. All 75 songs now have Chinese vocals. If Steam is set to Simplified Chinese, the game starts in Chinese. Until now, the game didn't support Chinese, so players with Steam set to Chinese were given the English version. If you play in English or Japanese, you can keep playing in English or Japanese as before.
- Set "Where to look for rooms" in Settings to "Worldwide", and you can play in the same room as friends who play in another language.
- Steam downloads the version that matches the language you've chosen there. If you play in English or Japanese, your game won't get bigger because of the Chinese songs.
- To play in another language, right-click the game in your Steam library and choose a language under "Properties" → "Language". When you switch, the songs for that language are downloaded and replace the songs for the old one.
- You can't switch languages inside the game because bundling every language's songs would fill the game with files for languages you don't use, making it very large.
A new video save screen
- "Save as", "Who appears", "Names", and "Style" now each sit in their own box, and you can make your choices while always seeing a preview of the finished video on the right.
- "Names" has three choices: "Show all", "Only me", and "Hide all". With "Only me", your name appears and other players' names don't.
- Saved video file names now include the date and time, so playing the same subject again never gives you two files with the same name. Even for videos saved with the subject hidden, the file name now includes the real subject, along with a "_hidden" tag.
- Videos are now saved in the Drawaoke folder in Pictures, and their file names start with "Drawaoke_". Videos you saved before stay in the old folder.
Add a thumbnail to your videos
- Saved videos can now open with a thumbnail: one image of the example drawing next to your drawing, shown from the start of the video until the singing begins. You get to make the first thing people see when they open your video. When the singing starts, a curtain closes and opens, and the usual screen takes over.
- Pick a layout: "Headline", "Big caption", or "Riddle" ("Riddle" is the default).
- Write your own "Caption", or press "Next sample" to cycle through sample captions.
- "Pixelate" pixelates the example and/or your drawings in the thumbnail only, so you can keep the answer hidden until the video shows it. The drawings in the video itself show as normal.
- Choose whether to add a thumbnail with "Add a thumbnail" under "Advanced settings" on the video save screen.
Easier-to-browse "Finished videos"
- In "Finished videos" (open it from the video badge at the top right), previews are bigger and lined up in two columns, newest at the top.
- Hover over a preview to play that video fast-forwarded and without sound, so you can check what's in it.
Easier-to-use room code windows
- The "Join with a room code" and "Play with someone" windows are now wider. The box where you type a room code now uses the same easy-to-read font as the room code shown in the lobby.
Smaller download size
- We've optimized how the game's audio is packed, so the game takes up less space on your PC. Your first download is quicker too.
- Because of this, some sounds may sound slightly different than in the previous version.
Clearer English
- Some names have changed: Guess-Off is now Guess Battle, Live is now Nonstop, Nursery is now Nursery Rhyme, Synth is now Synth-pop, and Mixed is now Shuffle.
- The "Nailed it" vote is now "Bravo!", and other votes and awards are now called "Wild!", "Good try", and "Wildest Drawing".
- We've reworded English text throughout the game so it reads more naturally.
- In Whatsit mode, the word that hides the answer is now "blah-blah-blah" instead of "you-know-what", both in the last line and in the singing.
- The award headings on the Results screen are now bigger and easier to read.
Bug fixes
- Fixed saved videos sometimes stopping just before the end of the song, leaving out the last line and the answer drawing.
- Fixed singing sometimes sounding distorted at loud parts (in both English and Japanese songs).
- Fixed a crackling sound in the singing of some Synth-pop songs. A few songs may still crackle slightly.
- Fixed the finished drawing briefly flashing on screen during the screen change right after playing a song in the Album.
- Fixed the room code in the lobby getting cut off with "…", which hid its last character.
- Fixed long lines in the subtitles on the reveal screen getting cut off with "…". They now wrap onto up to two lines.
- Fixed "lamb" and "noodles" not being accepted as correct answers for the sheep and ramen songs.
- Fixed bots' in-progress guesses showing up in Japanese in Guess Battle. Bots now give only their final guess, in English.
If you run into a problem, please let us know with "Report a bug" on the title screen. We also post news on X (@2P_START).