Drawful is a series of drawing games created by Jackbox Games. The name is a portmanteau of "draw" and "awful", which implies that the game will get crazy and the drawings will be bizarre. Players must draw an image for a strange prompt they are given, while also trying to guess what everyone else drew.
Game Rules[]
The game follows a basic structure of players receiving prompts and having to draw said prompt on their devices. All players will then see the other players' drawings in turn and come up with a fake answer for that drawing. Afterwards, players then need to guess what the actual drawing is from the answers on screen. If they guess the correct prompt, both the player that drew the prompt and those that guessed it get points. If a player-suggested answer is chosen, only the person who wrote it will get points.
Depending on the number of players, the number of rounds will change. There is also no "Final Round," so after all drawings have been seen, the player with the highest score is crowned the winner.
The game draws many similarities with Fibbage, in that players come up with a fake response and then need to find the correct one. Also similar to Fibbage is the 'thumbs up' system, where after choosing what you think is the original prompt, you can then select your favorite responses.
Franchise Games & Innovation[]
Drawful[]
Drawful is second game in The Jackbox Party Pack.
Drawful 2[]
Drawful 2 is a stand-alone title, released on Steam on June 21, 2016.
- The game has the support of the audience.
- The game supports drawing with two colors.
- The game has a “Make Your Own” mode.
- Added the “Manual Censoring” mode.
A free update was released on May 6, 2020, which includes full localization of French, Italian, German and Spanish! This update is only available for Steam. Also in this update, was added:
- Closed captioning.
- Content moderation.
- Text filtering.
Drawful Animate[]
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Drawful Animate is the third game announced in The Jackbox Party Pack 8.
- Players can draw with 3 different colors.
- The singular drawings are replaced with two-frame animations.
- You can also now boost your score by doubling down on a guess. Be careful, though, because if you guess incorrectly, you’re giving another player twice the points.
- A "friend mode" which has all of the prompts personalized.
- A "featured content" option, where you can play timely or thematic custom games with prompts made by Jackbox.
- New things for the audience to mess around with while players are drawing/writing.
- An "infinity timers" option that removes the timer completely.
Dirty Drawful[]
Dirty Drawful is an upcoming addition to The Jackbox Naughty Pack, with more adult-oriented prompts and a version of the Drawful owl with long legs.
- Players can draw with 4 colors.
- The prompts are more adult-oriented. (mention of sexual themes, alcohol, drug use, and other content not meant for minors)
- An undo button has been added. It will undo your previous line, and can be toggled on and off with the "Drawful Purist" option.
- Audience can change the look of Sexy Owl while players are drawing.
- Players can react with one of eight emojis while writing or voting; laughing, vomiting, screaming, questioning, fire, skull/crossbones, "No!", "nice."
Achievements[]
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Goodfinger | – Draw something that everyone guesses correctly |
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Show Me The Monet | – Win a game by more than 3000 points |
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Schmuck of the Draw | – Fool every other player with your title of another player's drawing |
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"Art" Connoisseur | – Guess every drawing correctly in a game |
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Fool House | – Fool every other player with a title you write. |
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We Like to Watch | – Play with 10 or more Audience Members. |
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Threestyle | – Get a streak of 3. |
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The Student Becomes the Writer | – Play a game with User Generated Content |
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It's a Secret | – Enter secret title in game. |
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It’s Better to Be Liked | – Get more than 50 likes in a game |
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Wait, Why Are We Rewarding This? | – Choose a decoy answer |
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Drawn Out | – Play 50 games |
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Multiple Strokes | – Enter a drawing with more than 50 lines |
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Happy Birthday Two Hues | – Use both colors in a drawing. It’s easy! |
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Fool Me Three Times | – Fool the same player three times in a game |
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Palette Cleanser | – Use all three colors in an animation |
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Proof of Friends | – Play Friend Mode |
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“Accomplishment” | – Use the word “accomplishment” in a title |
| Everything Ok? | - Use the undo button 20 times | |
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| Calm Down Picasso | - Fail to submit a drawing before the timer runs out | |
| Old Timey Artistes | - At least 2 players used only black and white | |
| Do You Work Here? | - Get every answer right in one game | |
| Have You Considered Fakin' It? | - Fail to guess every title in one game | |
| I Like to Watch | - Have exactly one Audience member for one game | |
| Turned On | - Only use the fire emoji reaction throughout one game |
Credits Song[]
| Drawful Animate, it’s art on overdrive Once you start to play, your drawings come alive Drawful Animate, is a game that’ll make you move Drawful Animate, it’s kinetic levity Drawful Animate, well there’s not much left to say |
Promotional Art[]
Trivia[]
- According to the Jackbox Drawful debut livestream (30th of October, 2014), the first Drawful has been in production for a relatively short time, with the assets' drawings taking about two weeks to make.[1]
- A running joke with the series is Jackbox Games' reluctance to add an eraser feature. This joke has been carried over into other drawing games in The Jackbox Party Pack series until Tee KO 2.
- Along with Pack 3 (Quiplash 2, TMP1 and Tee KO only tho), Drawful 2 is the first game that has "Post-Game Sharing" at the final scores and during the credits.
- It's was also the first Jackbox game that has Twitch Log-in.
- The owl mascot's canon name is simply known as Sexy Owl.
- The hostess is under house arrest, as she mentions that her ankle watch notifies authorities when she leaves her house¹.
- The fonts used in Drawful are American Typewriter, American Typewriter Bold & Supria Sans Heavy.
- A popular fan name given to the hostess(es) is Dot!. This, however, isn't their actual name, and are not referred to by anything in game.