Building a Dead-or-Alive Guessing Game
Pairing basic math with fun illustrations to pass the time at the bar
Overview
OldDead is a stupid game where you (and hopefully some of your friends) guess how old or dead people are. It's designed to be simple, easy to play with friends, and ever so slightly morbid.
The Idea
You know those games you play with friends at bars that don't have a ton of rules but are fun ways to pass the time?
One of Mike's games was to think of someone famous, and we'd guess how old that person was. If that person was dead, we had to guess how old they were when they died.
That was it. Winner got nothing but a bigger ego.
Building OldDead
Mike and I have always wanted to make a mobile app, so we gave ourselves a deadline, then built the app over the course of a few weekends with help from Jimmy.
Making this app was a great exercise for me to learn more about React Native and Expo.
