Game Night: Ogle on My TV, With Our Phones as Controllers
Ogle runs on my TV now: the board on the big screen, everyone tracing words on their own phone, and a small server on the Mac mini keeping score. That’s how Netflix runs its party games, and it’s how I wanted to play Ogle with friends in the same room. Ogle already has our dictionary and our rules, and Dial already puts my own app on the TV, so game night was the piece in between: our game, on our TV, scored by our own backend. ...