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 Render.
Thanks to a bunch of folks! The amazing Hasura community on Discord, friends for consultation on some React and deployment options, and even more friends (and friends of friends) for alpha and beta testing! More features to come soon :)
Would love any feedback or to discuss anything about the game or tech. Stay safe, and sane!
Here's another description, to play if you can in-person: https://funattic.com/how-to-play-fishbowl-game/
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.
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)
Edit: Nevermind. Monikers is a version of the fishbowl game.
Other examples include the Jack Box party game collection and Spyfall.
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.
I'm not aware of a name to the genre, but shelter in place might give proper birth to it!
Regards to the source, it can all be found here: https://github.com/avimoondra/fishbowl.
