Funny Games

Funny Games is a crowdsourced popular-culture trivia game made for Mini Jam 78.

Not surprisingly for a game made in 48 hours, the game is still more a prototype and features only 10 questions. But the answers to those questions change rapidly - partially dependent on unmoderated pseudononymous submissions.

Players can submit new false suggestions at the end to trick future players - the bad guy limitation for the Jam.

What worked...

• I built it in 48 hours
• It seems to run
• It features a new twist on trivia
• It may play on mobile
• I learnt stuff
• Sometimes the answers trick me because they change each play-through

What didn't...

• It turns out if you build a better trivia game, what you have at the end is still a trivia game
• It's not inclusive because it is really only for English-speaking players - it's not inclusive in other ways too 😔
• I still fret my reverse Missile Command idea was a better idea
• Still a massive crunch I associate with all game jams and/or hackathons
• I still feel guilty about the zings in this (sorry Moby; Michael Haneke I feel would respect my opinion)
• HTML screen size issues - can you ever get it right?

What you should know...

• You can moderate posts in the "Results of Evil" page
• The system tries to limit the player's evilness so the game remains playable and not too offensive (fingers crossed)

What is unknown...

• How the crowdsourcing bit works out

Credits

Fontawesome.com, LittleRainySeasons (Freesound), Unadamlar (Freesound), Sardin (Bigsoundbank), Tobias Ashlin (text effects), LetsEncrypt.org (last-minute SSL certificate to make this work)