Fiesta! Pic Challenges
A party photo game guests play without installing anything.
The problem
Party photo apps hand guests a camera, and most photos never get taken. Hosts end up chasing people for pictures, and groups who don’t know each other stand around on their phones. Clementina Enterprises wanted a game instead: challenges that get guests mixing, votes that crown a winner, and a gallery the host keeps, with nothing for guests to install.
Constraints
Guests can’t be asked to download anything: everything they do runs in the phone’s browser, joined by QR code. No guest accounts, yet one vote per guest. Photos have to upload fast on party Wi-Fi and disappear on schedule when the storage period ends. English, Spanish and Portuguese from day one.
Architecture
- 01 CREATE EVENT Live in about a minute
- 02 SHARE QR Printed, or on a screen
- 03 GUESTS JOIN From the browser, no install
- 04 CHALLENGES Photo missions for everyone
- 05 LIVE VOTING One vote per guest, on a countdown
- 06 BIG SCREEN New photos live, then the winners
- 07 GALLERY KEPT Results emailed to every guest
- CLIENT
- Host app and guest browser
- API
- Real-time game server
- STORAGE
- Photos, deleted on schedule
FIG. 1 Party flow. Teal marks the live vote that turns everyone’s photos into a game.
What we built
Live, in real time
Every photo and every vote shows up for everyone the moment it happens. The host’s phone runs the game, guests play from their browsers, and a big screen at the venue shows new photos as they arrive, then the winners. When the party ends, results reach every guest by email with no login, and the host keeps the gallery.
End to end
- Product concept B7DEV
- UI and UX design B7DEV
- iOS and Android host app B7DEV
- Guest web app B7DEV
- Server side B7DEV
- DevOps B7DEV
- Store launch in EN · ES · PT B7DEV
Results
Live on the web at fiestachallenges.com, with the iOS and Android host apps on their way through the stores. A host sets up a party in about a minute; guests join with one scan and play without installing anything. The whole game, from first photo to winner, runs in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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