Drawing Contest is a drawing game where you can show off your creativity and art skills! Each round gives you a theme, and you have 2 minutes to sketch your masterpiece. Rate other players’ drawings, collect stars from ratings, and unlock cool new shapes to make your art even better. Think you’ve got the best doodles?
A Pokemon card designed by six-year-old Megu Taniguchi has sold for $156,000 at auction, turning a childhood drawing into one of the rarest and most valuable Zorua cards ever released. The card is the 2010 Pokemon Illusion’s Zorua Design Contest Promo, specifically the Kindergarten Winner variant. The auction closed on September 27 through Fanatics Collect, with the card selling for $156,000. A PSA 10 copy reportedly sold for $8,700 in 2023, showing just how quickly demand for rare Pokemon promos has grown.
I cannot believe this obscure MMO from my childhood is still going 23 years later Was I always this bad at it, though? I grew up in the 2000s with a PC but not a whole lot of money. That's the kind of combination that gets you bargain-bin Sold Out Software games from Poundland or, more so in my case, an absurd number of free-to-play online and browser-based games that were utterly pervasive across the internet. My childhood was a never-ending revolving door of these mid-tier Flash and Java games.
Throughout the past decade, we've seen the gaming industry grow increasingly concerned with optimization and the fruitless endeavor of chasing perfection. Including Larian , Pearl Abyss , and Sandfall Interactive , studios big and small seem to be relying more often on generative AI to create placeholder art for their titles--even if "getting caught" often leads to negative PR . It's for precisely this reason that Slay the Spire 2's "shit" placeholder art holds a special place in my heart. Upon its release in early access earlier this year, Slay the Spire 2 players were treated to not only one of the year's best games, but to a wide variety of Microsoft Paint-style art created predominantly by developer Mega Crit's co-founder Casey Yano.