🧩 Joined Words – Multiplayer Real-time Game

Adds scalable, real-time multiplayer functionality, room management, and live leaderboards to the original Joined Words Game (here).

Game Demo

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v1.0.Final.Demo.mp4

📦 Overview

✨ Features:

• 🏠 Dynamic multi-room creation – supports multiple active game rooms running in parallel
• 🏆 Live leaderboards & scoring – real-time updates
• 🛡️ Admin Reassignment – automatic Admin reassignment when the current admin leaves
• 🔗 Copy room link feature for quick invites and smoother onboarding
• 📢 UI enhancements – toast notifications for events like player leaving, admin reassignment, and config changes
• 🔄 Gamestate persistence – restores player sessions after reloads
• 🚫 Prevent duplicate backend requests – disables repeated button clicks to avoid redundant calls

🛠 Tech Stack:

• 🖼️ React – frontend
• 🛠️ Node.js – backend
• 📡 WebSockets – real-time communication
• 🧠 Redis – fast state caching
• 🔐 Firebase for authentication (anonymous sign-in & nicknames)

📈 Project Timeline & Versions

v1.0.0

Features:

• Adds Admin Reassignment
• UI improvement: Added toasts for various events like when, player leaves, admin reassignment, gameconfig changed, etc

Minor Changes:

• Prevent user from pressing a button more than once after he has pressed it. (This ensures backend dosent receive same requests more than once)

Bug Fixes:

• On reloading, state is restored properlly.

v0.3.0

v0.3.0.mp4

Features:

• Nicknames, Anonymous Signin(firebase)

Bug Fixes:

• Reloading maintains the state

v0.2.0

• UI change
• Admin Settings, Copy link feature, leaderboard and scoring

WhatsApp.Video.2025-07-06.at.11.32.22.AM.mp4

v0.1.0

• very basic scaffolding and backend

v0.1.0_compressed.mp4