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Handling blank drawings submits in rounds with drawing timers
If a user attempts to submit a blank drawing before the timer runs out in games with timers higher than 5 seconds, the timer will be reset, giving them potentially unlimited time to retry their drawing.
There is a number of ways this could be fixed, and I'm not completely sure what would be best, but here's what I'm thinking. Maybe the Your guess is blank!
popup should be removed altogether, and instead, the Done
button is disabled unless there are marks on the drawing.
This also gets me thinking about how blank drawings should be handled on timeout. Currently, blank drawing are allowed to be submitted after timeout as an exception to the rule. Problem is, blank drawings kind of ruin the chain. So, maybe a better solution would be to give the user another 5 seconds to try and draw something, regardless of whether the current timer is 5, 10, 15, etc. This is a compromise between them half-cheating with unlimited draw time, and just submitting a blank drawing. Thoughts?
Giving them 5 seconds instead of resetting the timer entirely sounds like a good option, or at least better than how it is now. Another thought I had that would be lazy but silly would be to get rid of the undo button. It would make the average drawing a lot worse, but might increase the sense of urgency and silliness of the results.