Hello, I created rocketcrab! Who posted this?? :D thanks i guess? AMA if you want!
Rocketcrab: Party Games for Phones
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#12I like it, I play netgames.io regularly with my friends. I guess this is not just for phones, it is for any online party-link-based web games.
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#13I like it, I play netgames.io regularly with my friends. I guess this is not just for phones, it is for any online party-link-based web games.
right, you could play it on any device with a modern web browser. to keep things simple, i'm focusing on games that are optimized for phone-sized browsers. but it would be trivially to allow tablet/desktop only games with more complicated UI elements in the future, maybe in their own section. :)
netgames.io is awesome! The developer Luke is even more awesome! The cool thing about how rocketcrab is setup is that it actually didn't require any code changes to the netgames.io games for it to work with rocketcrab. :O
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#14My company has been playing a game to end every work week since the pandemic started, so we can try to maintain culture. This will be great, thanks for sharing!
Do you have any recommendations? In the beginning I would run "virtual game nights", by screen sharing Jackbox party games. It was simple for people to join with their phones remotely and play, but it was a bit of a hassle sometimes to set up, meaning it basically had to be me who ran the game night every time. I haven't looked around at what's out there after almost a year of a pandemic, so I'm sure there are loads…
shameless plug, my own game Drawphone is a great first time game as you don't need to teach anyone how to play, and it's always hilarious
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#15This is awesome! Love playing games like this with my parents (long distance), but they only ever want to play on their phones and the UI is always terrible. Wish I could've tried some of the games though without needing someone else to join. Some sort of automated example or a general open room?
What I usually do when testing new games is opening an incognito browser window and joining my own game.
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#16I used to play Spyfall previous incarnation (crabhat) and it was amazingly clean and robust implementation. This looks even better, with more games and a SDK! Werewolf was huge success on our gatherings, nice to see it in collection. A demo mode would help adoption a lot. It did wonders for Among Us.
Hi, rocketcrab creator here! :) Could you elaborate on what you mean by demo mode?
I would like a mode that would let me connect few dummy players and be able to switch between them to understand the flow of game. If I cannot go through joining process and all the game screens beforehand, I wouldn't suggest it in a party setting to figure it out there. Not sure how much rocketcrab can do here?
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#17Please don't hijack my back button.
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#18Why does entering my name prompt me to auto-fill in my credit card information? That's some scary bad HTML5.
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#19I used to play Spyfall previous incarnation (crabhat) and it was amazingly clean and robust implementation. This looks even better, with more games and a SDK! Werewolf was huge success on our gatherings, nice to see it in collection. A demo mode would help adoption a lot. It did wonders for Among Us.
Hi, rocketcrab creator here! :) Could you elaborate on what you mean by demo mode?
It would be awesome to have a short GIF showing some gameplay
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#20Hello, I created rocketcrab! Who posted this?? :D thanks i guess? AMA if you want!
Digging around just a little, these all seem to be secret-information games (where one person/some subset are one thing, the rest are something else).
Oh, and drawing games.
Anything else? I guess the secret-info ones are easy to code?