Playable nowThree players turn knowledge into territory.
Interactive round anatomy
A quiz question is only one move.
Most quiz experiences test recall but create limited interaction between players. The hypothesis is that territory and conquest can make knowledge feel more social, tactical, and replayable.
Role
Product creator & builder
Duration
Live and evolving
Milestone
Public product
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Estimate · Live mobile state
Current phase · Estimate
Earn the first decision
Estimation questions rank players before territorial choices begin.
Live conquest state26 territories
DanielBot 775Bot 323
The product system
Strategy creates interaction between answers.
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Strategy can add tension, but each phase must be understood faster than it is explained.
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Bot fallback and reconnection are part of the product promise in a real-time game.
03
Audio and motion clarify state only when the underlying rules are already legible.
Real-time game engine
The invisible product work keeps the match trustworthy.
The client uses React, TypeScript, Vite, and Sass; Express and Socket.IO manage the real-time server loop. Questions are loaded in Hungarian and English from a maintained Google Sheets source, while the PWA is optimized for fullscreen landscape play.
Player surfaceReact · Vite · PWALandscape interactionAudio and motion
Socket.IO looptimers · heartbeat · state
Match authorityExpress serverRooms and botsReconnect and AFK
Public validation · first-day snapshot
The launch produced signal, not just traffic.
Two public posts—one Hungarian and one English—asked focused questions about comprehension, strategic depth, and the reason to return. The response converted those hypotheses into a concrete backlog.
New visitors · launch day60All recorded as new in the captured snapshotPage loads · launch day73Tracked first-party page loadsReddit-attributed27Page loads across Reddit referral sources
Distribution experiment
One product. Two audiences. Three questions.
The launch posts deliberately asked whether the goal was understandable, whether the map created real strategy, and what would earn a second match.
Direct51
Reddit27
Other2
What players made visible
Feedback became a decision queue.
01Fix first
Stability and bot credibility
A Chrome freeze during the first territory capture, slow bot selection, and unrealistic numeric estimates are direct trust issues.
First-capture flow
Bot pacing
Estimate calibration
02Build retention
Progress must outlive one match
Players asked for profile progression, achievements, recurring events, and a question pool that continues to expand.
Profile progress
Achievements
Dynamic question pool
03Expand carefully
More formats, after the core is stable
Audio questions, a Europe-scale map, and configurable six-to-eight-player rooms emerged as credible expansion directions.
Audio questions
Larger maps
Variable player count
Interpretation note: these figures document early reach and qualitative learning. They do not yet demonstrate retention, product-market fit, or sustained adoption.
Product delivered
Released a working end-to-end multiplayer product with a 26-region map.
Reached 60 new visitors and 73 tracked page loads in the captured first-day launch snapshot.
Recorded 27 Reddit-attributed page loads in the captured launch traffic-source view.
Converted public feedback into a prioritised backlog spanning stability, replay, content variety, and larger game formats.
Next proof: live usageQuestion 01
Fix the reported Chrome freeze during first territory capture and refine bot pacing and numeric estimates.
Question 02
Test repeat-play drivers: profile progression, achievements, a growing question pool, and recurring events.
Question 03
Explore audio questions and larger maps or configurable player counts after the core flow is stable.
Question 04
Add automated game-engine and reconnect coverage as usage grows.
A public launch turned assumptions into specific decisions: fix the first-capture failure, tune bot behaviour, and test progression, content variety, and larger formats as reasons to return.
Evidence note · Launch figures are a captured first-day analytics snapshot: 60 new visitors and 73 tracked page loads that day. These are early reach signals, not retention or adoption claims.
I am open to conversations about complex product ownership, business analysis, supplier evaluation, and delivery work that needs a steady bridge between business and engineering.
