Game Description
Welcome to Boring Movies!
Challenge your friends to identify famous movies based on your most boring possible description of the plot! Can you stump them or are your friends actual true cinema fanatics that can name Citizen Kane from the most minute detail?
Can you name what movies are being described?
Guy finds a ring and his nephew returns it to the factory.
Old lady tells a story about a boat on a different boat.
Man turns off alarm clock 3176 times.
Development
This was a game that I would frequently play with friends in-person. I thought that it would make a fun online party game and I wanted to get more experience with Steamworks networking for multiplayer games.
I created it in about 3 months and currently it is available to play for free on Steam in Public Playtest.
The game was a fun experience in that it is essentially an entire search engine of movies; so the API usage is quite intensive as well I had to implement quite specific Fuzzy string matching for players guessing.
- 4 Player Networking
- The multiplayer netcode for this game is implemented using Steamworks.Net
- Cosmetics
- The game contains a large amount of cosmetic DLC as avatars. This is using the Steamworks DLC system for implementation.
- The Search Engine
- Using the Open Movie Database API it contains a working search engine including partial matching for any movie, television show, or even games.
- Fuzzy String Matching
- As some movie titles can be quite long (i.e. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) the game supports multiple routes of string matching for both partial (exclude subtitles) and minor spelling mistakes.
- Unity Engine / C#
- Integrated Systems
- Steamworks.Net
- Unity Analytics
- OMDb API
- Third-Party Libraries
- Newtonsoft.Net
- Rewired
- Text Animator
- DoTween Pro