David Nagel
Pictionary Air uses a light pen to record drawings you make in the air. Which is cool. But it is very sensitive, and many other light sources, I clouding my TV and my neighbor's outdoor lights, also get recorded as pen strokes. On the plus side, I guess that means you don't need to buy Pictionary Air to use this since many other o jects with lights could potentially be used as pens. As far as the game itself goes, the words on the cards don't seem to have had a lot of thought put into them.
18 people found this review helpful
Douglas Bernstein
Basic idea is fun for kids and worked pretty well. Some functions that need to be added: ability to switch to using the front or rear camera of the phone/tablet (depending on whether you're using a tablet or phone, and if practicing versus playing as a group, sometimes you want the front camera of the device, other times the rear camera). Ability for the app to rotate to landscape view, to use more of the TV real estate. The game should also have a one-person play/practice mode so kids can just practice using it and drawing.
67 people found this review helpful
A Google user
This could have been great. After eagerly awaiting this game as a family, we were let down by poor app support. I have a Pixel3XL, imagine my dismay when the image for this app was fuzzy, out of focus and unable to white balance. The pen won't work most of the time. Furthermore, the orientation is locked in portrait, this sucks for casting. I tried this out on an iPad and it worked great, no problems, except I had to hold an iPad still 4ever. perhaps Mattel and Apple have a better arrangement.
49 people found this review helpful
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