Stickman Charades

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  Mascot

• GIF

  demo gif

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  Landing Page

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  Game Stage

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  Joining a game

Inspiration

Inspired by 'pivot' stickman animation software and games such as 'jackbox' which allow each friend to join via a room code.

What it does

A multiplayer game where you compete against friends, taking turns to act out a charade prompt with a stick man figure, whilst others try and guess the prompt!

How we built it

WIth a node backend and React frontend, using socket.io

Challenges we ran into

• Establishing a client-server connection
• Syncing the client and server well
• Finding a good library to draw the stickman on

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• The game is playable and even pretty fun!
• We were all new to most of the technologies that we used so to have a finished product is gratifying.

What we learned

• How to create a dynamic web page with React, Node and Typescript
• How to establish 2 way client server continuous communication using Socket.io

What's next for Stickman Charades

• More props to allow for more advanced prompts to be acted out
• Scalability with more rooms
• Better styling so the site works well on more devices

Built With

• heroku
• node.js
• p5
• react
• socket.io
• typescript