Big Web Quiz
Using the power of Google Chromecast, up to 6 friends can compete to answer questions from their phones and tablets as the game plays out on the big screen. Questions are all generated by asking Google’s Knowledge Graph about popular search terms and constructing quirky, unexpected trivia questions by traversing the relationships stored in the graph.
I pitched our original idea to Google’s NY engineering team, and worked with them and our external application vendor to integrate the questions and answers with the native Android/iOS and App Engine applications.
Players use native Android and iOS apps to launch the game on their Chromecast devices, which loads all the questions and the game server from an App Engine app. Gameplay, messaging and synchronisation happens via inter-device comms between the apps and the Chromecast using the Cast SDK.
I co-ordinated between our development partner, the Knowledge Graph team and the Google internal Android team to complete, publish and launch the app. We showed off a custom version the app running on a large screen at Google I/O 2014 in San Francisco where it was one of the most popular stands in the show.