You have stumbled upon the source code for a simple yet highly addictive party game known as "Open Crowd Source."
The origins of this game lie within the fertile yet dangerous mind of one Dr. Gareth Millward, who suggested it to Frederik Olsen and Troels Pleimert (hosts of the podcast Back Seat Designers) one sweet summer morning.
The idea was to design an adventure game in just 30 minutes from randomly selected cards. Taking the idea and running with it, Frederik programmed a .NET 4.5 application in C# that would randomly select the cards, and also introduce twists along the way to derail the brainstorming. Thus, the Open Crowd Source Machine was born.
The show itself was broadcast live over YouTube with each episode featuring a specially invited guest contestant. You can watch the show over on youtube.com/backseatdesigners.
Seeing as we were having such a good time, we decided to release the source code for a version of the application that would also allow you to play with your own decks. And here you have it: Open Crowd Source - Home Edition.
Open Crowd Source - Home Edition is a WinForms application written in C#, which runs on .NET 4.5. The included solution and project files are for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013.
Original concept: Gareth Millward Programming: Frederik Olsen Artwork: Lone Merete Jensen Logo: Kevin Wallace Documentation: Troels Pleimert Sound effects: Freesound.org
All sound effects derive from Freesound.org, and are licensed under Creative Commons 0.
Visit our website at www.backseatdesigners.com
Watch the show at youtube.com/backseatdesigners
Here's the playlist for season 1 of Open Crowd Source: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOfZYdcpQ-FM2thaiuN8C-d6wtIqEprMb
Our thanks to the guests of season 1 who made this much more fun that we ever thought it would be: Francisco Gonzalez, David X. Newton, Brian "Demodulated" Devins, Bianca Devins, Shawn Mills, Jess Morrissette, Serena "I'm credited in every game ever" Nelson, Josh Mandel, Diana Rose, and Natalie "Resulka" Juhasz.
And our thanks to all future contestants, of course, because they're also going to make it fun. ;)
Open Crowd Source - Home Edition is free and open source software, and is released under the GNU GPL 3.0 license.