Manual

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Hearing your Friends

This is a social game.

You'll have most fun hearing your friends laugh and sharing your thoughts.

Use any Voice-Chat like Discord, Teamspeak, Skype, etc.

You can also play it in person using your smart-phone.

Game Creation

1. Login

Login as a Guest or using Discord.

2. Create Game

Select 'Create Game' - your game starts right away.

3. Add Players

Click on the Plus-Symbol on the top of the screen to open the invite dialog.

Invite Players by copying the invitation-link and sending it to your friends.

Approve their join request to add them to your game.

You may also add AI-Players instead

A Game can have 3 - 10 players

4. Select Decks

Select any decks you find interesting in the Decks tab.

5. Select Game Options

Adjust the Options tab to fit your needs or just use the default options.

More on this below.

Gameplay

1. Choose Sentence

A Sentence Card contains 1-3 slots '_' to insert Answer Cards.

The Host can choose the following options:

The Sentence Card is automatically drawn

The Cardinal selects the next Sentence from [3, 6, 9, 12] Sentences

2. Choose Answers

Select 1-3 Answer Cards based on the slots '_' in the Sentence Card.

This set of Answer Cards is called an Answer Stack.

The Host can choose the following options:

Players can choose from [3, 6, 9, 12] Answers

3. Present Answer Stacks

The Cardinal presents one after another the Answer Stacks of all players.

4. Choose best Answer Stack

The Answer Stacks of all players are displayed.

The Host can choose the following options:

The Cardinal picks the best Answer Stack

All Players vote for the best Answer Stack

5. Present best Answer Stack

The Cardinal presents the best Answer Stack.

The Player of that Answer Stack gets a score point.

Score Points are temporarily displayed on Player Avatars.

Roles

Host

The creator of the game becomes the Host.

The Host role migrates to the next Player after the host leaves the game.

The Host can:

Select Decks in the Decks tab

Select Game-Options in the Options tab

Confirm joining Players

Kick Players by clicking their Avatars

Add Ai Players

The Host wears the crown.

Cardinal

The Cardinal presents submitted Answer Stacks and the best Answer Stack.

Based on Game options the Cardinal also has to:

Select the next Sentence

Select the best Answer Stack

The Cardinal wears the hood.

An AI Cardinal cannot present - a Player takes over and wears the hood.

Player

Players actively play Game.

Spectator

Spectators look at Players playing the Game.

AI Player

AI-Players behave like real players and have several perks & quirks:

Supreme humor

Not being controlled by hamsters in wheels

Bad syntax

Game Options

Answers

Determines the amount of Answers the Players can choose from:

3

6 (Default)

9

12

Next Sentence

Determines how the next Sentence is chosen:

Cardinal picks

Draw (Default)

Sentences

Only available when 'Next Sentence' is set to 'Cardinal picks'.

Determines the amount of amount of Sentences the Cardinal can choose from:

3

6 (Default)

9

12

Next Winner

Determines how the best Answer Stack is chosen:

Cardinal picks (Default)

      Note: Cardinal may not submit own Answer Stack

Players vote

      Note: Voting own Answer Stack is not possible

Next Cardinal

Determines how the next Cardinal is chosen.

Clockwise (Default)

Winner

Deck Selection

Decks

The Host may select up to 3 decks.

Selected deck Sentences & Answers are shuffled together.

Language

Decks to choose from are filtered by the selected language.

The language is locked upon selecting a deck.

Info

Decks provide additional Info when clicking on them:

Sentences count

Answers count

Is filthy

Creator

Deck Creation

Requirement

Only users that logged in using Discord can create Decks.

Deck Slots

You may create up to 2 decks.

Content

Your deck contains the following:

Name (1 - 50 characters)

Description (0 - 100 characters)

Sentences (10 - 1000)

Answers (10 - 1000)

Filthy (Whether is has filthy content)

Public (Whether this can be found by other players)

Language (One from List)

Upload / Download

Your sets of Answers & Sentences can be independently uploaded & downloaded.

There are some reasons for this:

Backup your creation

Edit it in a text editor

Share it privately with friends

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