Rocketcrab: Party Games for Phones
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Oh, and drawing games.
Anything else? I guess the secret-info ones are easy to code?
You only note negative things, not positive things. This colors the whole post.
You use italics and "Oh,", which makes it more conversational, and it sounds exasperated to me.
Your questions at the end could be construed as rhetorical, rather than constructive, partly because you suppose an answer.
Suggesting that the games that are there exist because they are "easy to program" could be seen as a negative comment on the creator's programming ability or drive.
As the poster of this link and someone who enjoys the games a lot, I think your criticism about lack of variety is valid (if out of place for a collection of free games) and your phrasing wasn't aggressive or anything, but the above are some points that I watch out for in my own writing, particularly the first one - even if I don't like something, I find it useful to point out positive aspects to make it clear I'm trying to be constructive.
On the bright side though, I'm hoping that the mere existence of rocketcrab may inspire more developers to build even more diverse mobile web party games. Without rocketcrab, not only do you have to design and develop a game, it will be all for nothing if you can't find players to play your game, which is tough! The idea is that adding your game to rocketcrab will help it find an audience! if that makes sense :)
Also I have a giant list of mobile web party games that I want to try to add but haven't had the time. If anyone wants to give it a shot, rocketcrab PRs are open ;D
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OESjJwnSVhYH84mrA9LH...
A demo mode would help adoption a lot. It did wonders for Among Us.
So, rocketcrab opens games in iframes, so techincally I could have a mode where it would open four or so iframes on your screen to demo a game. The problem is that this would not work for many of the games as they rely on cookies/local storage that would be messed up with multiple iframes.
You could also just try opening rocketcrab as is in multiple tabs, but you'd run into the same issue with some games. Best you could do is open Chrome, Firefox, Safari/Edge, and your phone to get 4 players xD
Ultimately, my plan is to add screenshots of each game. Kind of like the App Store. I've been slacking on doing it for more games cause it's a lot of work, but here's an example:
https://rocketcrab.com/game/drawphone
Otherwise, developers are free to add their own demo mode (Drawphone has this!)
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 of options. But would love to hear that has worked for you at work, especially if you're still doing it after all those months!
Thanks for the suggestion!
It's been a neat way to spend some social time with my new colleagues. Being on non-work calls has helped me get a sense of who my new colleagues are and I feel it's helped me integrate in to the team.
<form method="post" action="/form" autocomplete="off">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