Add a spectator mode that can view results after each round

[tannerkrewson]

Message from Eli Brown:

Hey Tanner! I am unsure if this is the proper place to try and ask you this but I had a request about something that you could add to Drawphone. I have been playing it with a bunch of friends over the past few months since you made it but there has always been one problem that has hampered the enjoyment a little bit. It is the fact that each person is supposed to stand up with their phone at the end of the game and show everyone how their drawing has progressed. With that statement, you agree that it is for the best of the game for everybody to view the same drawings at the same time. However, this is really not for the best.

In my experience it is quite difficult to see someone elses phone as it is very small, and the games usually just devolve into people looking through everyone elses drawings individually on their own phone. This detracts from the experience as it is much funnier when everyone gets to look at and react to the same drawings at the same time. How I got around this issue was that I would sit near a TV and during the very last step I would be the last to submit my answer, and then quickly plug my laptop into the TV via hdmi cord and project my laptop on the screen. This way I would click and scroll through each drawing on my laptop and everyone playing could watch the tv to see them all at the same time.

This worked great, however it was really a pain to have to keep plugging and unplugging a cord. My solution is to implement a 'spectator' option. By this I mean that when you join into a lobby with a device, you have the option to click a box to become a spectator. Becoming a spectator would do nothing but allow the spectator to view the prompts at the end. What this would allow me to do would be to leave my laptop plugged into my tv as a spectator, negating the unplugging issue, and would allow me to draw on my phone instead which is far easier. Then at the end of the game I could still go through each prompt on my tv via the laptop as a spectator.

I am unsure if something like this is even possible but I am reaching out in hopes that something like it could be done. I have had a ton of fun with Drawphone and it has really created some great memories with my friends. I am only looking to try and make it even better. Thank you for your time and I am sorry if this is the wrong place to contact you.