Reneldy Senat
Owner, Trivia Day
Backstory
There is a culture in car gurus that every tuesday, whole team comes together to play Trivia. Most of the time in these session were being spend in finding good trivias. So an Idea emerged, to develop a multi player trivia, that you can schedule. And on the scheduled time everyone will get into the app and play. This would also work great for parties and get togethers.
Planning
Input
The client shared the vision on:
- Business Model
- Initial Design Concept
- List of required features
- Project release deadline
Analysis
We analyzed the requirement very carefully:
- Held over 5 meetings so we were on same page on the requirements provided
Output
This resulted in:
- Database design for the game
- UI/UX requirements
Project Challenges
Huge Trivia
Question Collection
A trivia game is nothing without a huge set of questions. Since we had limited time, it would not have been possible to build a great game had we allowed ourselves to get distracted into this mammoth task of adding thousands of trivia questions. We chose to go with opentdb, which really accelerated our development time.
Chat Functionality
with React Native
A trivia game is nothing without a huge set of questions. Since we had limited time, it would not have been possible to build a great game had we allowed ourselves to get distracted into this mammoth task of adding thousands of trivia questions. We chose to go with opentdb, which really accelerated our development time.
Most Important Features
Cross Platform
We decided to use React Native for making the game available in both iOS and Android. It also provides a lot of packages which we could use to reduce the development time and deliver the game on a short duration set by the client.
Chat Functionality
We decided to use React Native for making the game available in both iOS and Android. It also provides a lot of packages which we could use to reduce the development time and deliver the game on a short duration set by the client.
Real Time
We needed to create a real time multiplayer game. For this, nodejs and socket.io became our go to choice. We added a redis server to cache live game's data. We were able to host hundreds of players at a time with no performance issue.
Result
We developed a Cross Platform mobile game in very short duration of 6 months, huge question collection with various categories by using the APIs of opentdb, chat features with audio and video integration.
Technology Stack
Mobile
React Native
Backend
Node JS
Postgres
Others
Redis
Release
App Store
Google Play Store
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From The Client
Truemark has been a valued partner for over 2 and a half years. In that time, Prakash and his team have proven to be invaluable in the planning and development of over half a dozen of our projects.
I expect to work with a proactive team that takes the time to clearly understand my requirements, plan and develop kick ass applications, and deliver on time with confidence. With Truemark, you get that, as well as, a partner that's responsive, flexible, and is serious about resolving conflicts and meeting deadlines.
The Truemark team has a wide-range of expertise in modern languages, frameworks, and technologies; frontend and backend engineering; user experience and design; and industry best practices – Something that's hard to find. That is why, time after time, we take our projects to Truemark.