About This Game

Outdraw the AI in this co-op party game!

outdraw.AI is a thrilling human vs AI face-off for 2-6 players. Your goal: draw things in a way to baffle an image recognition AI, but not your fellow humans!

How to play

1. Join using your own device

Using a phone or tablet, simply scan the QR code, or enter the room code on our website, and transform your device into the game’s controller.

2. The drawer picks a prompt

The drawer first picks a secret prompt from categories such as animals, actions or even concepts!

3. Time to outdraw!

Then they just gotta draw it! But remember, the aim is to trick the AI while making sure your friends still get the picture!

4. Everyone (and the AI) guesses

Once the drawer is done, all the guessers will submit their best guess, including the AI! Choose carefully, you only get one chance!

5. The answer is revealed!

If you fail to fool and the AI guesses right, then humans lose! If the AI fails and humans guess right, then humans win!

AI to enhance (not replace) creativity

To win this game, you gotta get a little creative to workaround the AI's knowledge and score humanity’s victory! By pushing your creativity and deviating from what the AI has already learned, you’ll create unique drawings that no one has ever seen before!

By embracing the medium of games, outdraw.AI aims to use AI as a collaborative tool that seeks not to replace human creativity but to enhance it. Through the game, players from around the world can collectively uncover the biases in large AI models by exposing their blind spots in interpreting diverse, culturally specific drawings.

Enjoyed by humans around the world

outdraw.AI was initially developed as part of the art incubation program at Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] by game designer Tomo Kihara and art/design unit Playfool (Daniel Coppen and Saki Maruyama). Since then, the game has been exhibited globally at events including Ars Electronica (Linz), Now Play This (London) and Day of the Devs (San Francisco). The game has engaged audiences of all ages and sparking critical discussions around AI and creativity. The exhibition version of outdraw.AI is available via request.

Credits

Project: Tomo Kihara + Playfool (Daniel Coppen, Saki Maruyama)

Engineering: Kye Shimizu, Jasper Stephenson

Music: Plot Generica

Logo: Yu Miyama

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

1. outdraw.AI utilises Google's Gemini API (paid version) for image recognition features.
2. No drawing data from players will be used by Google as under the Gemini API terms of service (last updated October 2024).
3. No drawing data from players will be used by the outdraw.AI team to train AI systems without explicit prior consent from the player. Players will be opted out by default.
4. However, drawing data from players will be collected for internal game testing, academic research and data visualisation purposes.