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Broken Picture Telephone
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09-02-2009 3:24am#1http://www.brokenpicturetelephone.com/
It's basically Chinese Whispers with both drawings and words.
If you are shown a post-it note with a picture on, you have to write down what it shows.
If you are shown a written explanation, you have to draw what the explanation describes.
This continues for 11 rounds, after which all players involved can see the results.
The link explains the game much better than I can, but it's a fun bit of timewasting
Discovered via Dave Gorman's Twitter page.3
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I liked your interpretation on this one
http://www.brokenpicturetelephone.com/view?id=180
that was honestly the first program that came into my head. 0 -
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Fun game but I often get an error when trying to submit a completed picture.
That's unfortunate but remember it's just ONE guy behind the entire site and neither he nor anyone else expected it to be such a hit. He put it up almost 3 years ago but after receiving over 900 emails in 24 hours two weeks ago he rebuilt the entire thing in just a week. I feel more technical improvements are on the way so its worth sticking with it, patiently. It's just so much fun and refreshingly unspoiled by the usual 4chan/troll possie 0 -
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That's unfortunate but remember it's just ONE guy behind the entire site and neither he nor anyone else expected it to be such a hit. He put it up almost 3 years ago but after receiving over 900 emails in 24 hours two weeks ago he rebuilt the entire thing in just a week. I feel more technical improvements are on the way so its worth sticking with it, patiently. It's just so much fun and refreshingly unspoiled by the usual 4chan/troll possie
Yeah I'm not giving out, just saying is all. I made a good pic of cats practicing some classical physics equations while an atomic bomc was dropped on their heads but it didn't go through
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It's gone again I got an email saying a game I've taken part in is canceled. Went in to see the end result and was greeted by this message:Dear Friends,
I cannot even begin to express my regret that BPT is unavailable yet again.
However, the reason this time is due to my hosting company. The company has decided to close down my database, without any attempt of getting in touch with me prior to doing so.
I have spent the past hour on the telephone speaking with "tech support," frustratingly listening to them "explain" why the database was shutdown. Unfortunately, their explanations only left me with more questions - because:
a) It was clear no one knows the exact reason why the database was shutdown. Apparently the administrators had shut it down, and then left for the day.
b) No email, no phone call, no attempt to contact me was made to forwarn me that the database will be shutdown.
c) Despite being "technical support," no one has access to the database - including myself - to conduct investigations, except for the administrators. In that respect, that means that I cannot obtain copy of the data contained in the database to transfer the website - I must simply wait for the administrators to return to work tomorrow.
I hate that I have to do this yet again - I cannot even begin to stress how sorry I am for all this.
That being said, I am not giving up on BPT.
The first time I had to take down BPT, I hope you can all agree, I returned with a much more solid version of the website.
Now that I am forced to take down the website yet again, I hope this time to return with the website hosted with a more reliable hosting company - which takes a more professional approach to these sorts of situations. I also hope the new server will be more reliable, and faster.
Unfortunately I cannot switch servers until I can regain access to all the data that was stored in the database. Afterall, that is where all user accounts, and games were stored. Hopefully everything will remain intact and it will only be a matter of waiting.
Again, I offer my deepest and most sincere apologies.
Sincerely yours,
Alishah Novin
alishah@brokenpicturetelephone.com
It's a damned shame.0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »It's gone again I got an email saying a game I've taken part in is canceled. Went in to see the end result and was greeted by this message:
It's a damned shame.
Aye, me too. what a load of ring 0 -
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