Show HN: I ported the tabletop card game Anomia to mobile (gazooks.app)
Anomia is a trivia card game where players take turns drawing cards: when two symbols match those two players race to name an example of a thing in the other person's category. It's a very chaotic party game with lots of shouting.
We built this because me and my friends wanted to play the card game but we didn't always have the deck. But hey, everyone always has their phone and a phone is roughly card-shaped.
The backend is all Rust + Axum and the app is React Native. We use websockets to sync the phones in real-time.
It's a party game so you'll need ideally 3-8 people to play.
Would love feedback so please give it a try and let me know how it goes!
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 21.4 ms ] threadThe best part about digitizing these board games is that it’s so easy to add custom decks. We already made a couple (check out the CS one) but if anyone has any additional ideas let us know and we’ll put it in!
We’ve actually tried using LLMs to generate our prompts but a lot of times the generated cards are too specific where there’s only one good answer. We could be missing something in our prompts, so if anyone has advice on that it would be appreciated.