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Detective Club Buddy
Mobile companion app for the Detective Club board game — rooms, roles, clues, and scoring.
Impact
Digital companion for multiplayer Detective Club sessions
Problem
Running Detective Club required manual role assignment, secret clue handoffs, and score tracking that slowed gameplay and created errors.
Solution
We built a multiplayer mobile companion with room codes, color-based player join, random narrator and impostor selection, narrator clue broadcast, round timers, impostor reveal, and leaderboard scoring.
Architecture
Real-time multiplayer session layer with role-aware message routing and round state machine for tabletop-to-digital gameplay.
Results
- 1Room-based multiplayer for up to 8 players on separate devices
- 2Automated narrator and impostor role assignment each round
- 3Secure clue delivery to all players except the impostor
- 4Score tracking and leaderboard across full game sessions
Tech Stack
React NativeNode.jsWebSocketPostgreSQL
Project Details
January 2023
Product
Industry: Gaming
Platform: Mobile
Type: Product