JARNAC — six months building an online multiplayer word game

Hi everyone,

I’m Lourenço based in France, and for roughly the last six months I’ve been teaching myself Godot on the side.

JARNAC is the project that came out of it, and I wanted to share it with the community that I’ve been quietly leaning on (docs, forum threads, …) the whole way through.

JARNAC is an online multiplayer version of the classic French word game of the same name - think Scrabble’s smarter :slight_smile:
Two players, a shared dictionary (English & French), a steal mechanic that gives the game its name, and a real-time match.

Six months ago I had never written a line of GDScript. Godot made the on-ramp genuinely approachable, and I’d recommend it without hesitation to anyone sitting on a side-project idea and wondering if the engine is up to it. It is.

The project is now on Kickstarter enough to cover server hosting for the first 12 months plus platform fees.

If JARNAC sounds like something you’d play, or if you just want to support a small Godot project finding its feet, I’d be genuinely grateful for a backing, a share, or even just a comment here.

Feedback from other Godot devs is some of the most useful I can get.

Video trailer
Landing page
Support the project

Happy to answer any questions about the client-server split, or anything else in the thread.

Lourenço

It looks fun, and a really good fit for online multiplayer on mobile!

Looking forward to trying it :slight_smile: