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greg's collaborator here - this was a ton of fun to work on!! my favorite part was testing this in person - people would call the number, realize how the game

by eieio 3y ago

greg's collaborator here - this was a ton of fun to work on!! my favorite part was testing this in person - people would call the number, realize how the game worked, and then sprint across the room so that their opponent couldn't hear their move. This happened almost every time we tested and was funny every time. happy to answer any questions that folks have :)

cardamomo 3y ago
I have yet to play, but I love the playfulness of this project! I'm curious: how did the game evolve as you worked on it?
- eieio 3y ago
  Oh fun q - let's see. The basic idea came from me brainstorming with a separate friend about how to make games like stranger video[1] - we got into the idea of a game you could play entirely via calling a number. I pitched "rock paper scissors on the phone" to greg (we were going back and forth with ideas; I really wanted to make something with him!). So the basic idea was there from the start - although it came from a lot of thinking about the broader idea of "games about playfully interacting with strangers"[2]. We dropped a ton of features. We originally were going to let you play from the browser, give you a rematch button, make things best of 5, and maybe have a little phone tree. The most controversial of those is probably "play from the browser" - we prototyped this and it would have made the game more accessible but we thought that needing to dial a number made the game interesting - if the game is in the browser why wouldn't we use the features of the browser? We also iterated heavily on the experience of recording yourself - e.g. tweaking our timeouts, moving from Twilio transcriptions to Whisper, etc. But I think that's all just making the UX better, not changing the core of the game. greg shout if i missed anything! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38305787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38305787 [2] i wrote a tiny bit about this here: https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-13-talk-paper-scissors/ https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-13-talk-paper-scissors/
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cardamomo 3y ago

I have yet to play, but I love the playfulness of this project! I'm curious: how did the game evolve as you worked on it?

eieio 3y ago
Oh fun q - let's see. The basic idea came from me brainstorming with a separate friend about how to make games like stranger video[1] - we got into the idea of a game you could play entirely via calling a number. I pitched "rock paper scissors on the phone" to greg (we were going back and forth with ideas; I really wanted to make something with him!). So the basic idea was there from the start - although it came from a lot of thinking about the broader idea of "games about playfully interacting with strangers"[2]. We dropped a ton of features. We originally were going to let you play from the browser, give you a rematch button, make things best of 5, and maybe have a little phone tree. The most controversial of those is probably "play from the browser" - we prototyped this and it would have made the game more accessible but we thought that needing to dial a number made the game interesting - if the game is in the browser why wouldn't we use the features of the browser? We also iterated heavily on the experience of recording yourself - e.g. tweaking our timeouts, moving from Twilio transcriptions to Whisper, etc. But I think that's all just making the UX better, not changing the core of the game. greg shout if i missed anything! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38305787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38305787 [2] i wrote a tiny bit about this here: https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-13-talk-paper-scissors/ https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-13-talk-paper-scissors/

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