The SMS Voting-Game

Heroku URL http://morning-shore-2216.herokuapp.com/

Instructions

• Register and receive a PIN # by texting your full name
• Connect to other Minglers by texting their PIN #
• The winner is the person who the most people have connected to

Rules

• You have to register to connect to another Mingler
• You can't connect to yourself
• You can't connect to someone else more than once

Charitable donation

• The donation to charity is the number of minglers + the total number of connections * 4 or the max donation amount, whichever is lower

Voting and registering

• If you text anything that contains only numbers we consider you to be voting for a pin number
• Players should have a username so that we can display something on screen which is not their phone number or pin number
  • phone numbers = privacy issues
  • pin numbers removes the need to talk to other players

Routes

Message contents: dispatched to /sms/?mobile=<phone_number>&response=&message_id=0

if <username> is registered and mobile number matches registered user
    Send back "You are already registered <username>. Your PIN is <pin_no>.
else if <username> is registered but mobile number does not match:
    Send exception back "User already taken"
else:
    Register participant with <username> and send "Thank you for registering <username>. Your pin is <pin_no><

Message contents: <pin_no> dispatched to /sms/?mobile=<phone_number>&response=<pin_no>&message_id=0

if <pin_no> exists:
    vote for user corresponding with pin, and return "Thank you for voting to <pin_no>
else:
    send back error "User with pin <pin_no> not found" (optional)

Constraints: Pin number must be a NUMBER (no alphabetic chars).

Ideas

• Exponential point scoring

• Acheivements

• Announcemments:

  • 10 minutes with no votes
  • Player joins the game
  • Player gives / receives 10 votes
  • most votes in under 1 minute
  • ...

• Pin numbers vs. names

  • pins are harder to guess, you have to talk to someone to vote for them / have them vote for you
  • names might be easier and lesse clunky

• Analytics:

  • Top participant (person who's given most votes)
  • Top recipient (person who's receive the most votes)

Privacy concerns?

• Once the stop button has been pressed replace phone numbers with automatically generated IDs