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Show HN: Play Fishbowl at your next virtual hangout (free, open source)

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Re: Show HN: Play Fishbowl at your next virtual hangout (free, open source)

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Post by avimoondra2 »

XaspR8d wrote: post #14
BeefySwain wrote: post #10

Is 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.

Mario Party games would be amazing!! Similar also to n64 Pokemon Stadium mini games, which I still play once in a while today :p Great ideas for some future projects...

I'm not aware of a name to the genre, but shelter in place might give proper birth to it!

Re: Show HN: Play Fishbowl at your next virtual hangout (free, open source)

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Post by montroser »

This is great. For demo purposes, maybe it could be nice to be able to join a game with strangers? Accumulate each four next people and then put them in a game together.

At work, we switched from zoom to https://team.video, and one really cool thing about it is that you can play a collaborative word game while you wait for the meeting to get started. A small thing, but those first few minutes go from being totally frustrating to a nice little reprieve.

Re: Show HN: Play Fishbowl at your next virtual hangout (free, open source)

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Post by avimoondra2 »

montroser wrote: post #22

This is great. For demo purposes, maybe it could be nice to be able to join a game with strangers? Accumulate each four next people and then put them in a game together. At work, we switched from zoom to https://team.video , and one really cool thing about it is that you can play a collaborative word game while you wait for the meeting to get started. A small thing, but those first few minutes go from being totally f…

Thanks!

That's an interesting idea - It has crossed my mind, but I haven't yet fully explored the idea of playing with strangers likely due to my own bias playing with closer groups of friends (often with inside jokes).

Maybe even a speed round or trial round that you can play by yourself before you ask your group to play together.

Are there any features of Fishbowl you might see for work friends or in a professional setting? (and thanks for the tip on team.video)

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