Scribble It! News

Hey everyone,
with this update we added our own friend system to the game. This has one main advantage: You can now more easily play with your friends across devices and platforms. It will also allow us to design more gameplay features around the friend system in the future to provide a bit more depth to the game.
This change also means that we are moving away from the Steam friendlist. Some of you probably won't be too thrilled about having to manually add the friends you've been playing with in the past to the new friendlist. That's why we've tried to make this transition a little smoother and show you suggested friends. These are friends from your Steam friends list who also own Scribble It!.
We are slowly but surely bringing the game to more and more devices and platforms. This means that some of our old systems have to be replaced by new ones. This is also the reason we added dedicated servers in the past and will continue to make everything cross-platform in the future. We hope you understand that we want to bring the game to as many players around the world as possible and therefore need to be as platform agnostic as possible.


As always, we encourage every one of you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!

[h2]Patch-Notes[/h2]

• Implemented cross-platform friends & presence
  
• Added deep-links for lobbies & friends on mobile
  
• Added additional login state texts to login screen
  

[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]

• Fixed word package name display is not shown in additional streaming window
  
• Fixed lobby is empty after leaving lobby in word package settings
  
• Fixed lobby visibility setting is not reset when creating new lobby
  
• Fixed languages are not correctly loading in lobby setings
  
• Fixed loading screen text orientations
  
• Fixed crash when match starts
  
• Fixed dedicated server crash
  

In the last patch, we made significant changes to all word packs. We removed a lot of words that weren't fun and added new words that we think are a great fit. We also had to say goodbye to the word packs emotions, time and politics. Our statistics have shown that these packs were not very popular in our community and we think it was time to let them go. But don't worry, we plan to add new word packs in the future!
With this patch, the game is now also available in Bulgarian, thanks to the great efforts of our community, especially fancypoodle. If you want to help translate Scribble It! into even more languages, head over to Crowdin!

As always, we encourage every one of you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!

[h2]Patch-Notes[/h2]

• Overhauled word packages
  
• Removed Emotions, Time and Politics word packages
  
• Added Bulgarian as in-game language
  
• Improved lobby error messages
  

[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]

• Fixed custom match could be started even without enough word packages
  
• Fixed crash when joining Rate It! in selection phase
  
• Fixed Steam achivement icons are blurry
  
• Fixed emojis take very long to show on first use
  
• Fixed rejoining a match could cause multiple players playing together in one team
  
• Fixed rare crash when clicking play
  

We're pleased to announce a new minor update. Following the release of patch 1.8.0, a few issues emerged that required our immediate attention. With this latest update, we aim to wrap up the series of quick fixes and restore a seamless gaming experience for everyone.


As always, we encourage every one of you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!


[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]

• Fixed win X matches achievements don't work on Steam
  
• Fixed word package title & descriptions is always loaded as english at least
  
• Fixed some UI elements are not correctly initialized without a lobby
  
• Fixed crash when clicking player on mobile
  
• Fixed search animation on mobile
  
• Fixed play dialog is not closed when rejoining lobby
  
• Fixed crash when leaving game in Epic Games Store
  
• Fixed various login crashes
  

Yet another small patch that fixes some issues and smoothes out some rough edges in the UI.
Also, we decided that the word category display should always be visible for all players so they have the right context when making guesses. Let us know what you think of this!
As always, we encourage every one of you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!


[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]

• Category is now always shown on desktop
  
• Removed unnecessary timers on some pop-ups
  

[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]

• Fixed custom word packages cause server timeouts
  
• Fixed players are not shown in versus loading screen on desktop
  
• Fixed emotes can cause process to hang for a moment
  
• Fixed round category thumbnail blinks black when changing to inactive state on mobile
  
• Fixed dialog is too large when retrieving server info on mobile
  

Another small patch that fixes various issues that emerged after patch 1.8.0. Thanks to everyone for reporting these bugs!
As always, we encourage every one of you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord or on Twitter!

[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]

• Fixed own language is not set when creating custom game
  
• Fixed additional languages are not correctly selected when creating custom game
  
• Fixed speed of search animation on mobile
  
• Fixed choice dialog style didn't match other dialogs
  
• Fixed contest button in homescreenhad 3 lines of text in most languages
  
• Fixed crash when new lobby owner doesn't have premium and previous owner had selected premium game mode
  
• Fixed crash when leaving/disconnecting from lobby while joining a match server
  
• Fixed various crashes related to custom lobbies
  
• Fixed crash when QoS ping IPs couldn't be resolved