Disney launches its first ever mobile-onlydrawing game, Scribble Mix

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Disney Interactive has launched its newest
game title specifically for mobile devices.
Called ScribbleMix , the concept is that two
players will compete with each other in a
Pictionary-style contest where one person
draws the clue and the opponent must guess
it based on a series of words.
This is the company’s inaugural mobile-first
game and it is being released for iOS and
Android devices today with a Windows 8
version coming soon.
Akin to Zynga’s Draw Something , ScribbleMix
is a game based on drawing, however, the
app wants to put more emphasis on
the doodle or, simply put, a scribble.
Everyone remembers the time when they were
using a piece of paper and crayons or
markers to “draw” something. It never really
came out to be the next Van Gough painting
or worthy of opening up a gallery — the point
was to have fun and use your imagination.
ScribbleMix isn’t just an ordinary competitive
game. Yes, you are trying to outsmart your
opponent, but you also have to work together
in order to advance in the game.
Each pairing will be set on a map and given a
challenge to fulfill, a la Pictionary. As the
teams advance, the challenges will increase
in difficulty. The idea is to get as many stars
as possible — the more correct the guesser is
to what’s being drawn, the more stars the
team will receive.
At the beginning of each level, the drawer is
given a phrase, similar to the game
show Win, Lose, or Draw. They can “re-spin”
to choose a new phrase, but it will cost them
tokens that they’ve accrued throughout their
game play. The drawer will scribble out the
phrase and then submit it to be replayed
back to their opponent, the guesser.
ScribbleMix will provide the guesser with a
set of nouns, verbs, and adjectives — each
choice will assemble the phrase.
Players can have matches with other players
similar to gameplay with Words with Friends .
Since
this
is a
Disney game, ScribbleMix also incorporates
premium features from some of its top
product lines. To coincide with the upcoming
release of Monsters University, this mobile
game gives players the option of leveraging
phrases and characters from the movie. If
implemented, gamers will have a reference on
hand to remind them on how to draw
characters like Mike Wazowski, James P.
Sullivan, and Randall Boggs .
We had a chance to receive a demo of
ScribbleMix and it was pretty entertaining.
Sure, you become self-conscious about
drawing because well, let’s put it this way,
we’re all trying to not be embarrassed by our
bad drawing skills (me especially). But the
idea is to have fun with the drawings and
collect not only gold stars but gems, which
can be used to receive more color packs and
content.
ScribbleMix has integrated itself with
Facebook to make it easier for gamers to find
which one of their friends to play with.
Unfortunately, if you’re thinking about playing
this on a Web browser, think again as there
are no immediate plans to bring it to
Facebook like King’s ”Candy Crush Saga” .
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