Frame Game Reviews

A good twist on art party games

I like it. I made some exploding pants

A quick jackbox style party game, especially enjoyable for artists with tablets or capable with a mouse. You're able to change prompts, round time, number of rounds, basically all the main things about the game to suit your group and preferred playstyle. The drawing system itself works (though I don't like the colors, see the end of the review). The raw frame by frame drawing tool available outside of the actual main game mode is fun enough and enjoyable to use if you want to quickly doodle or practice frame-by-frame animation. It's solid. No pressure sensitivity, but some fine options to play around with. The main game mode is formatted much like a jackbox party game, where everyone takes turns drawing frames of an animation. The number of players determines the number of animations and frames each of them have (though you can adjust the number of frames a player gets to draw in the options). They're based on Prompts, and the Prompts are ENTIRELY editable, whoever is the host can have whatever prompts they want, I can't wait to play around with it. At the end, everyone chooses their favorite, and while there's no real reward to winning since it was a collaborative effort, the enjoyability just comes from seeing the full gif made up. The price might seem a bit steep especially when everyone needs to buy it, but really it seems like a game I'll just keep coming back to. Alright, my criticism of this game is mainly in the colors. I REALLY wish they just went with ROYGBV, White, and Black, but instead there are arbitrary colors (pretty ugly ones too). Maybe if you could change the colors like you can change other things, I wouldn't have much of a problem, but I just wish these types of limitations didn't keep showing up in games. ROYGBV is limiting enough while still allowing a gambit of color use, enough for basically anything you could ever need. I also wish you could turn of X to Clear, but hey, that's a bit less. Overall, get this game if you like the drawing games in jackbox, it's a very good time.

So in case anyone was confused as to what kinda game this is, it's like telephone, but with animation; first, everyone draws the first frame for their animation based on a prompt, and so eveeryone else has to try animating based on that frame, and than the next frame, etc (though if you don't have any friends to play with, there's also a free play mode where you can just animate based on a random prompt by yourself). While I haven't really been able to play with anyone yet, the freeplay mode was really fun on it's own. Would recomend.