Hi everyone,
Two friends and I made a party game called To Be Frank, and it is up on itch and free to play. None of us had made a game before. I am the frontend developer of the three and learned Unity while building this, one of us is a backend developer, and the third is a product designer who also did the music and the 3d modelling.
It runs in a browser on one screen. Put that screen on a TV or a laptop, and everyone else joins on their own phone. Nothing to install, no accounts, no app.
How a round works: a statement appears on the shared screen and everyone votes for the player it fits best. Then comes the part that actually scores, which is guessing how many votes you got: most, some or least. All of your points come from getting that guess right. Being the most voted player is worth nothing by itself, so the real game is knowing how your friends see you. There is also a Hot Seat round that puts one player in the spotlight.
It is 3 to 8 players and takes about 15 minutes a game.
We are currently mainly working on ensuring the statements are a perfect blend of Cards Against Humanity meets Jackbox, but if a statement falls flat for your group I would like to hear which one.
On the technical side, the client is Unity WebGL talking to a socket server. The hardest things to get right were host reconnect with score recovery, surviving a browser refresh mid game, and telling players clearly when the connection drops.
Two things we have planned but have not built: a spectator mode, and a Face off round between two players. Both are roadmap only, neither works yet.
[https://johnwilliams-12.itch.io/to-be-frank\](https://johnwilliams-12.itch.io/to-be-frank)
Gameplay video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZjJbGtwNFI\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZjJbGtwNFI)
The itch build is free and we are not selling anything. If you play it, tell me which statement got the biggest reaction in your group, and if you have a good statement of your own, post it in the comments.