Game In development

Doodle Bluff

A phone-first drawing and bluffing party game where players sketch prompts, invent decoy captions, vote, and reveal the funniest deceptions.

The Doodle Bluff home screen: the headline “Draw the odd thing. Bluff the room.” in heavy poster type on warm paper, with a yellow card holding a random party name and the line “No signup.”

What it is

Sketch strange. Bluff boldly. Doodle Bluff is a phone-first party game: players sketch prompts, invent decoy captions, vote, and reveal the funniest deceptions. It is in free beta, and you can play it in a phone browser today with no signup.

How a round works

Everyone draws a different secret prompt at the same time. Then each drawing takes its turn: the other players write decoy captions, vote for the caption they think is real, and the reveal shows who fooled whom. The game ends in a gallery of the drawings. Friends join a private room with a five-character code, and solo practice fills the table with two offline bots.

How it is built

One Node process serves the React client and an authoritative Socket.IO game server from the same origin, so the server holds the true state of every room and each phone mirrors it. The offline bots draw their own imperfect strokes and vote from the same view of a drawing that people get. Live rooms are deliberately temporary: they are kept in memory, not in a database.