christiaankruger / tko-clone

This is a clone of Tee-KO by Jackbox Games. It uses KoaJs, Socket.io, MobX and React do its work. It's written in Typescript.

TKO Clone

This is a clone of Tee-KO by Jackbox Games

Changes

Well, not exactly. Some changes were made to how scoring works:

• Points are introduced to the game. (Classic Tee KO only pits two shirts against each other at a time, seeing who can win a running streak. This leads to shock value attempts winning the game, and long-running shirts eventually losing to fatigue.)
• In every round, each shirt is given a score by every player. The top two shirts of the round proceed to a voting round, during which the players vote for their favorite.
• In some rounds, the slogan and design's artists get a tip of 50% of the score.
• A new round is introduced where all players get the same design, but have to provide their own slogans.

Introducing 'Presenter'

Instead of live-streaming a single instance of the "Game", all players watch the game locally through their browsers (referred to as 'Presenter').

The same old 'Remote'

Players still input their designs and slogans via mobile devices, through 'Remote'.

Games codes and reconnections stay

• We still connect to our game via the classic 4-letter game code.
• If, at any point, you disconnect from your game on the presenter or remote, just sign in with the same code (and same player name on remote). The server will recognize you, catch you up & continue as normal.

Usage

• Run yarn build to build the server, remote and presenter.
• Run yarn start to start up the server on port 7024. remote is served on / and presenter is served on /watch.

Where the magic happens

server/Games/TKO.ts is home to TKO, the class that represents a single session of a TKO game. This extends BaseGame which provides the interface the server uses to communicate with the session, and the session can use to communicate with the players and presenters via websockets.

Both presenter and remote are pretty dumb applications, only displaying what they've been sent by the server.

Going forward

It's already possible to run multiple games in parallel, and to build games other than TKO with the same building blocks found in remote and presenter.

I still have to:

• Do a lot of code cleanup, which I'll get to in due time.
• Implement round 3 and the game's end.