Sega announces new DS drawing game PictoImage
Sounds very similar to Pictionary
We remember the day we first received shiny new DSs in the post from Nintendo very fondly. What did an office full of grown men and women do the minute their hands were on this cutting edge technology? They all fired up Pictochat then spent half an hour wirelessly beaming hand-drawn phalluses to one another and giggling uncontrollably.
We're not sure what it says about our mental age, but it does prove that whether it's in some condensation on a window, or someone's dirt-covered van, everyone likes a good doodle. And that they normally immediately draw a comedy penis.
This is sort of good news for Sega anyway, because it's just announced a new drawing-based game for DS. PictoImage is described by the publisher as a party puzzle game which sharpens wit and drawing skills.
To us it sounds a bit like the boardgame Pictionary, but then that's no bad thing.
Eight players are able to play the game simultaneously, with each taking turns to draw the image of a word generated from the game's large database while the others try to guess that word first.
Other variations on this are included. Take the Picture Pass mode, where a subject is passed from player to player in an image and the last player must guess the subject based on all the drawings. Players are also able to create their own personal library of words to use in the game.
There's also a single-player and two-player option in which players can guess images from a library of 300 drawings pre-created by people of all ages. And there's a tutorial mode to teach you how to draw, too. Some people never progress beyond the stick man with a smiley face, you know.
Release-wise, PictoImage is due in August. Which gives us all plenty of time to practice our pencil sketches and perhaps try to grow up a bit so we can refrain from drawing something obscene the second we get our hands on it.
