Community:Ajedi32/Ro-Pictionary

Ro-Pictionary is a Roblox game in which players compete to guess the drawer's image. The drawer must illustrate a picture of the word provided and the other players must guess what it is. If you guess correctly you are selected as the next drawer. To prevent the drawer from giving any hints they aren't allowed to use chat while in the drawing booth. If the drawer attempts to chat their turn will end immediately and another player gets randomly selected as the drawer.

Tips for Guessing

 * Never give up! The game can be intimidating for newer players, but the trick is to watch. Try to memorize the words and associate them with the most common ways players draw said words. Once you know most of the words and common drawings you are ready to dive in.
 * Type fast! Unless most of the users in the game are AFK or just not paying attention, fast hands are the key. If you are a slow typer this game may even be a way to improve your typing speed.
 * Pay attention & blurt out words. As said above, the best way to get ahead in this game is by memorizing the words and associating them with common shapes and colors. For example, if the drawer starts drawing something green they're most likely drawing a zombie or an alien. The color brown usually correlates with toast and pancakes, while yellow or orange pairs up with waffle. Some shapes and objects also pair up with words, like a box for Xbox, a rectangle for a skyscraper, a rabbit for carrot, a mouse for cheese, or a spider for spider-man.

Tips for Drawer

 * Use colors. Though it may take a short pause to find the color you need, it's better to have a colorful picture than one completely black. This often makes it hard to differentiate objects or specify what you're making.
 * The erase tool is slow and unreliable if you want to completely erase your drawing, the F2 key is a handy way to clear the board.
 * Only draw what you're supposed to draw! Drawing inappropriate or off-topic images may be funny to you or your friends, but what's funny to you isn't always to others. Users may report you, take pictures of you, or even badmouth you in the comments for doing so. Behaving this way can completely ruin the spirit of the game. Keep in mind that there may be young players around who don't understand what you're drawing or find your images to be very unsettling.
 * Don't write the answer! Try your best at drawing what you're supposed to. Unless you're completely stumped and have no way to translate the word into a picture, don't write the word. If you aren't completely sure what the word is, a quick online search can solve this issue in the future.

Ro-Pictionary's Deletion
Around August 2011 Ro-Pictionary got deleted by Roblox. Ajedi32 said he didn't know why it got deleted because the game hadn't broken any rules. Fans and players alike speculated that the inappropriate images and players were to blame. Ajedi32 said he would re-upload the game, and if it got deleted a second time he wouldn't try again. Sadly, Ro-Pictionary was deleted for the second and final time on August 16, 2011.

Stealing(s)
On July 24, 2011, Jaredvaldez4 made a direct copy of the game and claimed it as his own. He is thought to have exploited the game with the XML source exploit. Sometime in early August, he uncopylocked the game (which is the reason for much of the stealing). There are now over 10 pages of a stolen Ro-Pictionary.

Then copied it, with exactly the same things. This version has no changes, except he used fake titles, and changed the thumbnail.

Controversy
Along with bad words, some players would also draw offensive body parts or other inappropriate pictures, or people engaging in lewd/vulgar acts. While many reported the game itself, others took videos and/or pictures of the drawer's actions and reported it to Roblox.

Many players would share answers with their friends or siblings, usually throwing people off by drawing completely unrelated images (i.e. Sharer1 draws a picture of an octopus, then Sharer2 guesses the correct word- "toaster"). Though it was easy to eject sharers from the booth to prevent this from happening, many would take the spam route- not drawing at all and continually blurting out the correct answer, effectively preventing enough players to eject them out in time. This angered players further, prompting them to not only report the sharers but to report the game, garnering more staff attention.

And, without having to do with cheating or playing the game. Jared stole, but when he used ChanceTK to steal the game, newer users and naïve ones thought that ChanceTK created the game. This angers fans of the original game. But once the news that ChanceTK was Jared, people started to boycott ChanceTK's game.