Big fan of Doodle or Die. Two things I was very impressed with:
1) Ability to play without signing up. When I finally did sign-up, they asked for few permissions from Facebook (only name and email, IIRC).
2) Trolls don't ruin the game. The community is great, and will just play through. Example: http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/564/doodleordiecomce5t8eyus...
Its addicting.
I've been trying to play this on a Galaxy Note running ICS using Chrome for Android. Mostly works, with some expected lag during drawing. The layout of the drawing tools is a bit off (overlapping themselves and the drawing space). Hope an app version is in the works.
Wow, great concept. I can see just how addicting this site can become. Sidenote, this is my favourite chain so far: http://doodleordie.com/c/1qp-p7-YK
Wow, excited to see a shout out on HN for something I created!
I'll try to answer any questions you have, especially technical questions about running a game with thousands of users on Node.
(Edit: spelling)
Drawing does not work for me. I try to hold down mouse and draw, won't let me. Can't select colours properly.
I've heard this game called "eat poop you cat"
It's awesome in a group setting with pen and paper.
not quite sure I understood what I had to draw, but here you go: http://i.imgur.com/0JrhK.png
btw. a very funny concept (although it's also quite easy to get lost in those games)
If I sign in with twitter, why do I need to pick a password?
So which came first: DoodleOrDie or Drawception?
Somewhat related: a friend and I built a game a lot like this as a Facebook app back in 2009 called Pictionnected. It had a few really passionate users. Didn't really iterate on it, got busy with work, and didn't maintain it when Facebook made some platform changes--eventually killing the app.
I deeply regret not sticking with it. I didn't know at the time just how unique it was to have that core set of extremely passionate users. The thing I've been realizing more and more these days is that persistence really is the name of the game.
In any case, it's great to see that the idea is still alive and kicking!
(Screenshot, for posterity: http://i.imgur.com/pSLNA.jpg)