An online word game based on the amazing Ransom Notes
This is a monorepo which contains the full game code. This includes the:
This project is still very much in an early development state, so please take that with caution!
Last year, my wife bought the Ransom Notes card game based on a very convincing ad. Unfortunately, we also have a lot of internet friends
- Private rooms and room codes
- Right now, there is one join button which either joins an open room or creates a new one, meaning there are no private rooms.
- Prompts
- I'm trying to avoid using Ransom Notes' prompts as they are covered under copyright. If you would like to contribute prompts, please keep that in mind!
- More and better words
- Voting during the showcase round
- I'm thinking thumbs up and thumbs down
- Scoring
- Requires voting to be implemented
- Animations and sounds
- The game works without these, but it would be much better with them!
- Timers
- Everything depends on the host (whoever created the room) right now
- Better Styling
- Definitely subjective - the current styling is fine. It just could be better imo!
- Edit player name after join
- Alternate game modes
- User-made prompts
- Different prompt for each player
- Quiplash-style head-to-head prompts
- A drawing mode?
- Players make a drawing or two, then they get split into pieces and distributed among players, who then combine pieces to respond to prompts
- Re-assign host manually (already happens automatically if host disconnects)
You can run your own instance by cloning this server, and running the following commands in the repo root:
pnpm run build
pnpm run start
This will serve the client and server on your local machine on whichever port is in the $PORT env variable, or 42824 if there is none.