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Christine Lemmer-Webbercwebber@social.coop
Nov 9, 2026, 5:51 PM
Whew! What a week! @spritely got in its #lispgamejam entry: a p2p party game called PolyDraw! Draw the word you're given but... you can only draw with twenty triangles in one minute! https://davexunit.itch.io/polydraw
The game is REALLY fun, I've played it with several groups now and:
- It's built using #spritely tech! Goblins, Hoot, OCapN!
- It's fully end-to-end encrypted! The only people who know what's being drawn are the players!
- It's REALLY FUN!
Blog post coming soonish but: try it with friends! Let us know what you think!
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Christine Lemmer-Webbercwebber@social.coop
Nov 9, 2026, 5:54 PM
This game was largely coded by @dthompson and is, I think, a lovely little feat to be pulled off in a week. It also has music by @encryptedwhispers / @vv, the word list is curated by @mlemweb, and it has a bunch of custom animations by me!
And the end-to-end encryption is thanks to @tsyesika's recent support for end-to-end encryption in OCapN / Goblins!
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Christine Lemmer-Webbercwebber@social.coop
Nov 9, 2026, 6:00 PM
Also thank you to Ursula Kurdali for the Stop Motion add-on for Blender, which I used to make all the animations https://github.com/bkurdali/Stop-Motion-Blender-Addon/
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Christine Lemmer-Webbercwebber@social.coop
Nov 9, 2026, 6:03 PM
If you've never used any software @spritely's made before well, why not have this be your first time? It's really easy to pick up and try it! I recommend hopping on a voice call with friends and play the game together! https://davexunit.itch.io/polydraw
You'll have so much fun you'll have to stop and be like "wait a minute, this is all happening as a demonstration of powerful distributed network tech stuff! it's all end-to-end encrypted!"
It's easy to forget about it because you're just having fun with the game! Which is a good feature!
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Christine Lemmer-Webbercwebber@social.coop
Nov 9, 2026, 6:09 PM
Even if you don't play the game you should start it up and watch the intro screen animations and listen to the music imo ;)
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Christine Lemmer-Webbercwebber@social.coop
Nov 9, 2026, 6:10 PM
This is just a con in to getting you to play the game though because it's really good
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Christine Lemmer-Webbercwebber@social.coop
Nov 10, 2026, 11:55 PM
If you didn't play the game yet, I mean, it's an extremely fun game. But also look at these ducks I animated for u in the game
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GLCglc@mastodon.online
Nov 9, 2026, 6:27 PM
Taking note of this point -
"It is strictly multiplayer but there is no game server as it's peer-to-peer. You (or a friend) hosts a game and shares the invite with other people who can then join the game."
Which clarified for me what is already said in the thread.
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Maya Granadekevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place
Nov 9, 2026, 6:41 PM
@cwebber Christine using misdirection?!? Unposdible!
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Leaping Womanleapingwoman@spore.social
Nov 11, 2026, 2:08 AM
@cwebber adorable!
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Filene TaylorFilene@dragon.style
Nov 11, 2026, 7:23 PM
@cwebber fyi, this was one of my favorite animations, it's an eternal gif on its own. Watermark it with the project game for me!!
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Phairupegiontphairupegiont@mastodon.social
Nov 10, 2026, 1:43 AM
@cwebber @spritely feedback:
* let a lone player discover the draw UI without having to open 2 browsers (makes them more likely to play)
* message that tells the user when the other side has been disconnected
* prevent accidentally navigating away during a started game
* on the host the invite URI copy button did nothing for me
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Christine Lemmer-Webbercwebber@social.coop
Nov 10, 2026, 2:50 PM
@phairupegiont @spritely Thank you! This is good feedback! (And hm weird, the disconnected notification bit should work, but apparently didn't.)
Did you have fun?
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davedthompson@toot.cat
Nov 10, 2026, 6:02 PM
@cwebber @phairupegiont players are notified when another guest leaves but I didn't have time to implement messaging for when a guest loses connection to the host. we shall call this "rustic charm"
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Phairupegiontphairupegiont@mastodon.social
Nov 10, 2026, 7:31 PM
@dthompson @cwebber oh right, that's how it happened for me.
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Phairupegiontphairupegiont@mastodon.social
Nov 10, 2026, 7:32 PM
@cwebber @spritely well I haven't played it with a friend yet. It looks fun. I'm curious how the peer-to-peer part works.
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