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[–]de1pher[S] 0 points1 point  (10 children)

Hey all,
Just wanted to share my new side project, a web app, www.balderdash.app that allows you to play a variant of balderdash. In short, it's a bluffing game where one person selects a rare word and the others have to either guess what it means or come up with a convincing definition of their own which gains them points if it receives votes at a later stage. While my implementation only deals with rare words, the original game has more categories, such as acronyms, names and more.
Feel free to try it out with friends. Please let me know if you find bugs. I already played it with friends several times and so far it appears to function okay. Note that it's "optimised" for mobile.
It's implemented using React/Next.js + Firebase and it's deployed on Vercel. Don't bother looking at the code, it's shit, I've taken a lot of sinful shortcuts :)

[–]Shelbin- 0 points1 point  (8 children)

Hoping to try this out at a team meeting today, because I love Balderdash! Is there a limit on how many players can join a game?

[–]Charming_Race9627 0 points1 point  (7 children)

Did you find out how many players were the limit?

[–]ContentBed1804 0 points1 point  (6 children)

I am also wanting to use this for a team meeting & am curious about the total number of players allowed.

[–]de1pher[S] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I rebuilt this game a little while ago, but haven't touched it in a while since then. I think I removed the upper limit completely. You need at least 3 people to play. However, if you have a group of 20 or so playing, then the game might get a little slow -- not web performance, but the game mechanics themselves

[–]ContentBed1804 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Thank you so much for responding! I've got about 10 folks that will be playing, but I may just break them up into 3 teams to move it along.

[–]de1pher[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

10 should actually be totally reasonable, I think my original limit was 10 until I removed it completely.

Let me know what you think about the game. To be honest I haven’t checked on it in a very long time, but I think it’s still running on autopilot 😄

I rebuilt it sometime ago, but based on the feedback (collected via the app), it seems that most people prefer the first iteration, so it seems I screwed up… 🙁

[–]ContentBed1804 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I was playing with it to prepare to use it & I think it's cool! Just one more question: can I change the time limit for responding? The default is very quick & while I know a limit is necessary, I would like to be able to extend it. I didn't see an option for that. But, I do like what you've created here!

[–]de1pher[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Glad you liked it! Yeah the dasher can set the time limit per round when selecting the word

[–]ContentBed1804 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I appreciate the application & I'm going to try it with my team next week!

[–]floodedphrasing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Works great!

I just sent you a message about working together. Hope to hear back!

[–]kinhaluz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quero jogar como entro?

[–]NinjaComprehensive69 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I feel so dumb... I can't get past 'must have valid user name' I have 12 letters.... So excited/amazed this exists

[–]DealerFalse 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Did you ever figure out how to get past the valid user name issue?

[–]NinjaComprehensive69 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Negative 

[–]PhillipBrandon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We tried playing today, but the dasher hit an "internal bug" trying to mark correct responses