node.js ko
Acronyms with Strangers
Acronyms with Strangers
by team jerkface
Join a game and compete against other players to develop the funniest or most relevant expansion of the “acronym” provided (i.e., create a backronym). Vote on the best answers over ten rounds. Profit.
Judging Instructions
You’ll need a twitter account to log in. Once you’re logged in, you’ll begin receiving acronyms once the game you’re in has the minimum number of players. Play ten rounds, vote on your opponents' best answers, but try to be funnier than all of them to accrue all of the points.
Who
garann — Austin, TX
phillyqueso — Austin, TX
cheeseplus — Austin, TX
clifton — Austin, TX
How
Background from subtlepatterns.com Fonts from Google Fonts Pete Higgins' PubSub.js jQuery and jQueryTemplates Normalize.css
Node Modules: coffee-script connect connect-redis redis/hiredis restler socket.io underscore everyauth jqtpl colors gzippo express
Votes
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Other Votes
(5)
erniehacksjudge
chrismatthieujudgeOops! Google Chrome could not connect to team-jerkface.nko2.nodeknockout.com
- contestant
It’s working fine for me in chrome (and ff, and safari)? Accessed it, logged in, chatting with myself w/o issues.. Sorry you couldn’t get it to work.
ryanmcgrath
judgeIt’s fun and pretty well implemented. On a personal level, I question the font choices, but that’s nothing I’m going to dock this with. ;)
Pretty complete entry overall – can’t rank it high on innovation as I feel like, in the scheme of Node.js, it’s not doing too much that’s not been done before.
wjgilmorejudgeHmm I wish somebody from the team was logged in so I could test it. :–) Unfortunately I can’t assign any points because I can’t actually test it. The points do not reflect the quality of the project, only that I can’t at this time actually test it.
If one of the creators wants to login and respond to this, I will jump right on.
- contestant
I’ll get on there, and wait for people. Come on by ;–)
- wjgilmorejudge
Hey Phil I’m logged in now but see only the “Waiting for more players…” message? I logged in successfully via Twitter.
- wjgilmorejudge
Hey Phil I think it crashed on us, I have to bail for about 2 hours will be back online tonight.
mdyer
contestantdawnerd
contestantdylang
contestantbeen waiting for more players for a while. it might help you get better scores from the judges if you or your friends are always in the game. I wish i could vote n/a.
jolieodelljudgeCute concept, fun game! And great for playing with my hordes of Twitter followers.
Unfortunately, the game was buggy as it gets and kept deleting acronyms, freezing mid-round, and generally crapping out. We woulda loved playing ten rounds; unfortunately, we only got as far as one and a half in the attempts we made to play.
Still, for concept and effort, I give you a high five, Team Jerkface!
therazorbladejudgeThis is a lot of fun. The interface is a bit clumsy, and at times hard to figure out what I’m waiting for (or a reload needed). Also, 30 seconds is way too short.
Same as ARCOnode.
glenngillenjudgeIt took quite a long time for a game to start, even though there was always a min of 4 other players. Kept returning to the “play again?” button. Once a game did start, it seemed to end suddenly without any winner. Not sure what was meant to happen. Using the latest chrome build (13.0.x) and unfortunately it took quite a
chapel
contestant
Twitter permissions seemed a bit sloppy – settings allow the app to post tweets and update my profile? Doesn’t sync with the promises made on the join screen, and I don’t think this would work for general consumers.
I joined when other players weren’t playing, and the default screen didn’t offer me any information, only several blank fields. This app would benefit from consideration of states where the user has incomplete data.
The concept is fun and the visual design (skin) is nice but the experience design is still pretty raw.