This project was inspired by a combination of two popular games: "Ransom Notes" by Very Special Games and "Quiplash" by Jackbox Games. Therefore, the combination of these two game names birthed a new name: Quipnotes!
The best way to experience this game is to buy "Ransom Notes" and use the prompt cards located there.
My family enjoys playing "Quiplash" at parties because of its ease of use and ability for fun! Later, we started playing "Ransom Notes" which is also loads of fun! However, "Ransom Notes" is not as easy to play because it requires sitting around a table or hard surface. If you don't do this, you'll risk losing the tiny word tiles that are crucial for this game.
Therefore, I started this project! This aims to make "Ransom Notes" as easy to play as any other JackBox-like games.
- Copy
.env.exampleto.env.
cp .env.example .env
- Fill in the actual values in the
.envfile.
The "Ransom Notes" games words are proprietary information. Please buy a copy and index those words (this only took me 15 minutes with all the tiles still in sheets). Or, feel free to use whatever word list you would like!
- Put the words list in a csv file in one column. No title.
- Save it somewhere and update the
WORDS_FILE_PATHenvironment variable in your .env file.
- Finish Client
- Create a user-friendly interaction for reading the ransom notes (another client?)
- (Extra) Add a way for users to add custom words to the word list if desired.