Show HN: Play games together on a big screen using your smartphone
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#2That QR code needs to be a lot bigger. I have a 28" screen and had to wiggle my phone a good while to get it to register.
After getting connected i loaded up the racing game, my phone showed the controls, but half a second after the race started my phone went back to the "select the game" screen, while the game went on on my screen.
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#3Why the Android app? This could have been done with web tech, which would have made it work on any touch device.
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#4I've always wanted to build something like this for cinemas to feature before the movie starts
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#5Did we just HN the game? Seems to be freezing and quit a few times.
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#6My friends and I have a little bit of fun with Chromecast games, which seem to be in the same spirit.
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#7I've always wanted to build something like this for cinemas to feature before the movie starts
I built exactly that at one of my previous jobs. Quite fun. Lived for a few sessions, but failed to be commercialized.
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#8Why the Android app? This could have been done with web tech, which would have made it work on any touch device.
Yeah but then you'd have to maintain some software built on web tech.
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#9I've always wanted to build something like this for cinemas to feature before the movie starts
Cineplex in Canada does trivia through phones before the movie starts. You connect to their wifi network and answer the questions in their app and the winner gets some sort of prize at the end. They show the leaderboard and such in between questions.
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#10Why the Android app? This could have been done with web tech, which would have made it work on any touch device.
Maybe they work with Androids or enjoy coding for Androids or don't know how to do it on the web or any one of a myriad of reasons?
This isn't a very relevant or constructive comment. It's just saying "why didn't you build something completely different," which, I think, is sort of condescending/non-productive.