Pumped to see this come to life! Enjoyed the initial tests and it looks great!
Show HN: Play Fishbowl at your next virtual hangout (free, open source)
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#12Is there a name for the "genre" of games like this? Party games played on a mobile phone in a browser using a short code to group up. Other examples include the Jack Box party game collection and Spyfall.
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#13How is the game mechanics different from the Monikers?
Edit: Nevermind. Monikers is a version of the fishbowl game.
Re: Show HN: Play Fishbowl at your next virtual hangout (free, open source)
#14Is there a name for the "genre" of games like this? Party games played on a mobile phone in a browser using a short code to group up. Other examples include the Jack Box party game collection and Spyfall.
Not that I know of, but I've always thought there was a cool project opportunity for a Mario Party-esque platform of minigames with room-code join-by-phone controllers.
Sony has the "PlayLink" platform on PS4 but it didn't seem to get much headway. The only game I saw any awareness of in my circles was "That's You". Looked neat enough but mostly drew Jackbox comparisons.
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#15How is the game mechanics different from the Monikers? http://www.monikersgame.com/ Edit: Nevermind. Monikers is a version of the fishbowl game.
I think that's right - was thinking about adding "packs" like Pokemon or Celebrities, etc. to make it even easier to play! But submitting your own words or phrases makes it personal, and dynamic (different every occasion)
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#16Hola HN, author here! I wanted to build a free, online version of a favorite party game I used to play with friends, in person... so we could continue being social, at a distance! The first version was created and tested in ~3 weeks. Check out the source here: https://github.com/avimoondra/fishbowl . It's built with Typescript, React, Material UI, Apollo GraphQL, Hasura, Express, and Postgres. And it's deployed on Re…
Dope! I made a much more basic version of this for my own use a few weekends back. Yours is way better. Thanks for sharing!
Re: Show HN: Play Fishbowl at your next virtual hangout (free, open source)
#17I don't like "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app" with nothing else visible. Even if JavaScript is disabled, I should still want to be able to read the documentation, and if source code is available, to access the source code. Even if nothing else works when JavaScript is disabled, which can make sense sometimes.
Re: Show HN: Play Fishbowl at your next virtual hangout (free, open source)
#18Hola HN, author here! I wanted to build a free, online version of a favorite party game I used to play with friends, in person... so we could continue being social, at a distance! The first version was created and tested in ~3 weeks. Check out the source here: https://github.com/avimoondra/fishbowl . It's built with Typescript, React, Material UI, Apollo GraphQL, Hasura, Express, and Postgres. And it's deployed on Re…
Dope! I made a much more basic version of this for my own use a few weekends back. Yours is way better. Thanks for sharing!
That's awesome! I appreciate that, and hope you enjoy it! Would love to chat about it anytime... lot of interesting game dynamics to consider, especially over video calls. Feel free to leave your email through this feedback form I set up for the game (https://forms.gle/6a5wnBo7D6pDdcxb9) if you'd like to get in touch!
Re: Show HN: Play Fishbowl at your next virtual hangout (free, open source)
#19Anyone want to try it out? Join this lobby: OQUG (I've no idea how to play or what it is)
Re: Show HN: Play Fishbowl at your next virtual hangout (free, open source)
#20I don't like "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app" with nothing else visible. Even if JavaScript is disabled, I should still want to be able to read the documentation, and if source code is available, to access the source code. Even if nothing else works when JavaScript is disabled, which can make sense sometimes.
Thanks for the feedback! Will add this to the set of issues I'm tracking. You are correct in that nothing will work when JS is disabled for this app.
Regards to the source, it can all be found here: https://github.com/avimoondra/fishbowl.