Welcome to IdeasForPictureGame!

Hey, I just discovered this sub, it looks promising!

Here are a couple of ideas:

- Bring back community votings (and theme days)! It would be nice to have some monthly stickied post again where players could vote and discuss for best round of the month, or eventually theme days. Speaking of theme days, I liked them, having them every week might be too much, and letting people submit ideas was not always the best option, but maybe having a mod-curated theme day once in a month could bring some interesting rounds (if the theme is announced long enough before).

- On the same idea, make a "State of the subreddit address" every once in a while, this might get more visibility than /r/IdeasForPictureGame

- Text rounds shouldn't be allowed. Puzzle rounds are fine, but they should at least incorporated some graphical elements in it. For instance, "what number comes next?" or "solve these cryptics" are not good, but puzzles like /u/quatrevingtneuf's farewell serie are fine.

- When a round asks for coordinates or for the name of the person who took a photosphere, OP should also give the name of the place when correcting, that way it would be easier to check if a round you're making has been done recently (I'm sure people check for that). Don't make it a rule, but make it a suggestion.

- Bring back /u/GodOfNumbers, I never knew him/her and I still don't really know what he/she was banned for, but he/she's such a legend that having him/her back could be fun. Now that he/she's out of the top 25 is a good time.

oh wait this place is DEDDER THAN DAEL.

THANKS TURDYOTA

So instead of say, a lighthouse, bridge, or fountain, they might look at the list and see for instance 'mythology and lore' and remember some weird thing related to that they could use, or otherwise trigger an idea.

I think it would be a good idea to have a sticky comment in every round. The host could post his hints under that comment, so everyone can see them without scrolling through the comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PictureGame/comments/4pd2pz/round_22744_back_to_difficult_vacation_pics_what/

This round is an example for what I mean. I gave some hints, but they were just flooded by all the answers.

Perhaps a week before the month ends or something, or maybe the last Saturday (i.e. the last theme day) of the month.

As it stands, either one week there is no theme at all (e.g. this month), or voting becomes a bit rushed.

I know that isn't a fool-proof method since you can just disable the CSS or use RES hotkeys but this is a feature of the old CSS that I wouldn't mind having back.

Rarely does a round (or comments, even) deserve the downvotes that seem to be fairly commonplace these days. I think this could also be a minor incentive for players to keep playing as well. (in that their rounds won't be relentlessly downvoted to incur negative karma)

I got bored today whilst there was no round up on /r/PictureGame, so I decided to make an Image Masking Tool that I hope will simplify your lives when masking images. Should be self-explanatory, but if you have any feedback/advice on how I can improve it, I would love to hear. :)

EDIT: And I've updated it now so it works with almost any site you need it to ;)

This should make the effort of checking timestamps significantly lessened. All that needs to be done is a copy/paste of the CSS below into PictureGame's stylesheet.

    .live-timestamp[title]:after {
        content: " (" attr(title) ")";
}

On the main /r/PictureGame sub I believe the top header mouseover is a couple pixels too down, which interferes with the regular RES header.

Image link for demonstration: http://i.imgur.com/ppv3uUe.png

I was thinking it would be great if we had an automated table that we could put on the sidebar that would be the top 5 for wins over the last 100 rounds. maybe help increase the level of competition a bit. So maybe it would simply just be the last 100 rounds. OR

We could possibly parse it out by xxx00-xxx99. so at this moment we are in the period between 19200-19299. So the table would have the players with the most wins in that period.

The idea comes from here where /u/iAMADisposableAcc posted some awesome stats. It would be some added fun to include different stats and metrics

Hi all,

I haven't been as active at /r/picturegame as I once was (mainly due to starting a new position at work), but I'd like to make improvements to the Image Masking Tutorial if you all feel any needed.

I'm open to any and all suggestions related to the tutorial. I'll make the changes at my earliest convenience.

Image Masking Tutorial is here

Thanks!

Started thinking about it after this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PictureGame/comments/40wdm7/round_18973_puzzle_100_win_wordsearch_except/

It's nice to see big puzzle rounds celebrating player achievements, but they can deter newcomers and stall the game. Would it be possible to allow these big milestone rounds to run in the background, but allow the rest of the game to keep going?

Here's my proposed way this would work. Every 100 wins, a player is entitled to post TWO rounds. One regular round, to keep the game moving, and a big celebratory puzzle round (if desired).

Example: let's say I win round 20304, and it's my 300th win. I have the option of either just posting a regular round 20305, and letting the game play as usual. Alternatively, I can post a milestone round 20305, and a regular round 20306. The regular round 20306 continues the game as normal, but milestone round 20305, which presumably takes more time to figure out, remains open. The winner of the milestone round 20305 wouldn't have to post a new round, even if they happened to solve it before regular round 20306.

Some benefits:

• more incentive for players to reach milestones: double the posting power!
• more round diversity and big complex puzzles for those that like them
• game continues so people don't have to be hung up over the difficult milestone round, but the milestone round stays open
• once in a while, players can win without having hosting responsibility

Some drawbacks:

• double the posting power means double the hosting responsibility
• i imagine the bot programming would be really complicated
• maybe people don't want to win without posting the next round
• possibility of posting power abuse

Thoughts? Feelings? Opinions?

If you have got any idea for improving or adding new features in /r/PictureGame, share them in this subreddit. We would love to see what you come up with!