Guess or Dare Game

Inspiration

Guess or Dare draws inspiration from three college kids looking for a centralised platform providing a fun, self-explanatory game with an accessible chatroom that can be played by anyone across the globe.

Studying remotely from our home country this past year has made it hard for us to find an ice-breaker game that can help us get to know people whom we have not physically met before in a fun manner. Hence, Guess or Dare is born to solve our deprivation.

What it does

Guess or Dare is an online multiplayer game that is designed to accommodate a team-building scenario between people who are not physically together. Identifying communication barriers as one of the major root cause for boredom during quarantine, this game aims to combine interactive experience and real-time components to mimic physical interactions.

Players can join a room where they will be divided into two separate teams, one being the guesser and the other being the answerer. A word will be assigned to the latter team, and the guesser team will have 5 chances to ask questions and look for hints. The QnA will be real-time and dynamic, making the game interactive. The team will win if they correctly guess the word before the question count runs out. After the game ends, the winning team can spin a wheel of dares to give a fun escapade for the losing team.

Accompanied with working chatbots to allow discussion and strategy-planning amongst team members, automatic team formation, and live QnA between teams to guess the word, Guess or Dare can easily become your go-to game whenever you’re looking for some quarantine-fun!

How we built it

We used a full stack Javascript development stack to achieve the app utility and design goals. Our frontend utilizes React and css and our backend is made with MongoDB Mongoose.

Challenges we ran into

Keeping track of different states is pretty challenging. Because we incorporated a group team design, assigning students into teams also is quite a challenge.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of the synchronous features of our app. We are also proud that we made the design from scratch and implemented the UI without any external libraries.