# Guess the Movie

`guess-movie` is a colourful shared-screen movie guessing game built around original square, isometric pixel-art clues.

![icon](pwa-512x512.png "Guess the Movie App Icon")

## How to play

Open `/guess-movie/` on a TV, projector, laptop, or large display. Players scan the room QR code to open `/guess-movie-c/`, enter a name, and join the scoreboard. When a challenge is started on the shared display, it can also submit answers directly. The **Big Screen** player is added only after its first answer; it is never added to a controller-started challenge.

While the game is in the lobby, the viewer runs an attract mode that slowly cross-fades through the movie artwork behind the start panel and updates the six preview choices to match each image. Starting the game always selects a first clue different from either image visible during that transition, so the opening answer is not given away.

Press **Start round 1** when everyone is ready. A series contains five rounds of 20 questions. The complete 100-movie order is shuffled once when round 1 starts, then divided into five non-overlapping sets so no clue movie repeats during the series. Each question gives players 15 seconds to choose from six possible titles. The clue begins blurred and becomes clear over its first five seconds.

- A correct answer earns **10 points**.
- When more than one player is in the round, the earliest correct answer earns a single **5 point fastest bonus**.
- Answers lock after one choice.
- The game reveals the answer, updates the scoreboard, and moves through all 20 questions in the round.

The game contains 100 illustrated clues spanning animation, adventure, comedy, drama, fantasy, musicals, science fiction, and classic cinema. Playing all five rounds uses every movie once. All artwork is stored as square, indexed 256-colour PNGs for efficient loading.

## RCWeb design

The viewer owns the round timer, submissions, scoring, reveals, and leaderboard. Controllers send join and answer intents with `rc.sendFunctionCall`, then receive player-specific snapshots so reconnecting phones can recover the current round cleanly.

The display supports landscape and portrait layouts. Landscape uses three continuous columns for the square artwork, the game information and choices, and the join/score rail; the challenge status and countdown stay inside the middle panel. The artwork panel remains square at every size, and clues are centred without cropping against a black background when their proportions differ. Portrait height is recalculated from the browser's visible area so expanding mobile browser chrome cannot clip the scoreboard. Narrow phone-sized viewers replace the inline QR code with a button that opens it in a modal, preserving room for the clue and answer controls. A lean-paint path removes expensive decorative effects on older signage devices while retaining a timed clue reveal.