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Draw Party

Draw it against the clock. Let the Judge decide. Solo or with friends.

Open drawparty.hmeid.uk

What it is

Draw Party is a drawing game where an AI is the judge. You get a word and 45 seconds to sketch it. The Judge guesses what you drew without seeing the word, scores it out of 10 and adds a sarcastic comment. In party mode, up to five players draw the same word at once and race up a leaderboard.

  • 1,069words to draw, in 17 categories
  • 45sper round, enforced by the server
  • 5players per room, all drawing at once
  • 3AI stages in every judgement

Key features

  • Solo mode

    A word, a 45-second timer and an instant score with a witty comment. Drawings are saved to your history.

  • Party mode

    Share a six-letter room code. Everyone draws the same word at the same time over five rounds, with a leaderboard after each.

  • Live canvases

    You can watch everyone else draw in real time, but their canvases start pixelated and only sharpen as the clock runs down, so nobody can copy.

  • An AI judge that plays fair

    It guesses without being told the word. Writing the word scores zero, and blank pages or scribbles are caught.

  • Speed matters

    Up to 20 bonus points for finishing fast, but only if the drawing is good enough to earn 6 out of 10 or more.

  • No sign-up

    Play straight away as a guest, and keep your drawings if you make an account later.

In action

The landing page, where you choose Solo or Party mode.
A solo round in progress: draw the word before the 45-second timer runs out.
The AI judge studies the finished sketch.
A 10/10 verdict, with the judge's guess and comment.
A duck drawn for Giraffe gets 0/10 and a sarcastic comment.
A party lobby with its room code and two players.
A party round, with the other player's sketch appearing live in the side canvas.
Round results showing each player's sketch, score and what the AI saw.
The leaderboard after round 1 of 5.
The history gallery of past sketches with colour-coded scores.
The landing page on a phone.
Drawing with touch on a phone as the timer turns red.
Under the hood

The parts that aren't obvious

  1. A blind judge

    A referee checks for blank pages and cheating while, in parallel, a guesser makes three guesses from the image alone. Only if no guess matches does a third call score the drawing, and it must pick from the guesser's list.

  2. Realtime without the database

    Strokes travel over Supabase Broadcast, not database writes, and game phases are broadcast with polling as a backup so a missed message never stalls a round.

  3. Server-side time

    Each round stores an expiry time. Late drawings score zero and the speed bonus is worked out on the server, not trusted from the browser.

  4. Locked-down scores

    Only the server can write scores. A database function checks a room is open, not full and that only the host joins as host.

Built with

App
  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • Tailwind CSS 4
  • Server Actions
AI
  • OpenAI gpt-4o-mini
  • Vision
  • JSON outputs
Data
  • Supabase Postgres + RLS
  • Supabase Realtime
  • Supabase Storage
  • Anonymous auth
Hosting
  • Docker
  • Coolify