Ziago

Fun social and drinking games for video calling 🍻

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Ziago is a new platform for fun social games with friends and family on video calls. Players join through a game link, and can play from any device. Everyone follows along in realtime, and is instantly notified of game events and other player actions!
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Pieter
Maker
Hi PH👋, meet Ziago! A games platform to help curb the social distancing loneliness, and keep people connected 😀 To get to where it's at now took about a month and a half, and so far it has 8 games and good traction from all over. The idea came about when some mates and I wanted to play games over video calls but soon discovered it's quite a struggle. It's built solely on Firebase, cause I needed something with realtime capabilities to launch quickly and effortlessly. I wrote about the principles followed to start testing so quickly: https://codeburst.io/how-i-built... Would love any feedback, and happy to chat!
Karl Anderson
Excellent work guys!
Pieter
Maker
@karlanderson Thanks Karl!
Vasiliy Popov
Infolio
Great idea, but I'm just worried that with all those amazing stay-at-home products we will have no incentive to go out when it's all over ) Just kidding, of course!
Pieter
Maker
@vasiliypopov Thanks Vasily. Haha! I'm sure real social interaction will always win.
Markus Saitmacher
Great stuff! Ill definitely going to try it out! The UI looks great and I love that it is web only and I dont have to download anything. I think two good games to add would be Charades and House item Scavenger hunt. Played this with my friends over zoom recently. Also great to see TDD being used for an MVP!
Pieter
Maker
@markus_saitmacher1 Thanks for the great feedback Markus. We'll definitely look into those games, sounds like fun.
Nic Byron
Great product! Very impressive. I had the thought while I've watched so many people fumble around with trying to use Jackbox.tv on video calls: "there is no reason these games need to be downloaded onto a host computer... the tech is out there to make this realtime and completely browser based." I specifically had Firebase in mind when I was thinking of it, so I'm glad to see someone brought it to life!!
Pieter
Maker
@nicbyron Great thanks Nic, yes agreed. The big challenge with web apps is just that the UX is not on par with native apps, especially for non-tech savvy users - I'm finding this especially challenging for games. Hoping PWAs will solve that/go mainstream.
Nic Byron
@pietcreator Yeah, definitely understand that. I did freelance tech support for a few years, so I know just how non-tech savvy people can be... 😆
Nuno Pereira
Timely idea, but how is this any different from Houseparty?
Pieter
Maker
@nunosbpereira Hi Nuno. Ziago is different to Houseparty in that players don't have to use us for video call. With Ziago players can join a Zoom call on their computers, and play the game itself on their mobiles, almost like a games console controller. This way, everyone can see each other all the time, and the minimal screen space on mobile devices doesn't need to be shared between a video call and the game. Also, we have more games than Houseparty currently (8 v.s. 4), as we can develop games very quickly (web).
Nuno Pereira
@pietcreator great, one of the big issues with Houseparty was the limited number of games. That and the crappy servers, I always had connections using it. Good luck!
Jay Phaeton
Very smooth onboarding process! Quite happy.
Pieter
Maker
@jayphaeton Thanks Jay! Glad you like it :-)
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