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That 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.

My friends and I have a little bit of fun with Chromecast games, which seem to be in the same spirit.

https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/chromecast/apps/

I'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.

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.

The movie theatres in Vancouver aren't as busy in the off-hours too. I've known a few coworkers that have have had little-to-no competition for winning free tickets at company-sponsored movie days.

There's also this

http://docs.happyfuntimes.net

No app needed on the phone

and this

http://airconsole.com

and this

http://ibidex.com

Not sure if you're just getting a lot of 'love' from HN at the moment but I found both games I tried (tank battle and space race) unplayable, don't think I was being presented with the right set of menus.

Tank battle just didn't start (and I was stuck there until I crashed the app and rescanned the qr code)

Space race did start and work but then I couldn't move on after the race finished.

I have had success doing this years ago with just a normal Monopoly or Risk PC game and the Logitech mouse app (though you have to make sure there are no bad actors and that it's turn based as there can be obvious problems with multiple input devices).

There is a suite of Jackbox games like this that are really good. Particularly, Fibbage: http://jackboxgames.com/project/fibbage

looks like a copy cat of airconsole.com to me :/

What do you mean exactly? The site doesn't look the same and it's not like there's only room for one company using this technology.

Did we just HN the game? Seems to be freezing and quit a few times.

This is exactly what I'm working on: puppets.life/demo

Why 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.

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.

It’s your own comment that’s not relevant or constructive. I’ve made a valid point.

I've built something like this with web tech before [1]. Unless your commands are going to the internet, and not through something like bluetooth or wifi, you need to do it with native.

[1] https://github.com/reustle/meteorgame

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