What's the Story?

Find the server repo here. Find the client repo here.
You can play the game here with your friends or teammates.

About

What's the Story? is a hilarious multiplayer game that's best described as a cross between Mad Libs and Telephone where players create collaborative stories written one sentence at a time.

The Twist

Each player can only see the latest sentence of the story!

Gameplay

• From the Home screen, players can choose to either:
  • Start a new game where they will be given a randomly generated Room Code to share with other players.
  • Join an existing game by entering a Room Code generated by someone else.
• Once all players have joined, the Start Game button allows players to, well... Start the Game!
• After submitting an inital sentence, each story is passed to the next player.
• Play continues with each player adding a sentence to the story based on only the preceding sentence without further context.
• The game ends when each story reaches a predetermined length (measured in number of sentences).
• Players can then select and read all the stories created during the game.

Winning

What's the Story? is a collaborative game emphasizing creativity and originality. As such, there is no "winner", per se. Players win together to the extent that they use their creativity to come up with interesting stories.

Tech Stack

The tech stack for this project includes:

• Node.js server
• Express for route handling
• MongoDB/Mongoose for the persistence layer
• Socket.IO for real-time multiplayer communication with game clients
• React frontend with Redux for state management
• Chance.js for generating random names and Room Codes
• Mocha/Chai for backend testing
• Enzyme/Jest for frontend testing