AI Party Game - AI-Judged Party Games

A Jackbox-style party game for 2 to 8 players where an AI writes the prompts and judges the answers.

Role: Designer and engineer. Team: Solo. Status: Live. Year: 2026.

• Live site
• Source on GitHub

Overview

AI Party Game is a Jackbox-style party game you can play on one shared screen or across phones with a room code. An AI writes the prompts, and with two players it judges the answers; bigger groups vote.

Game modes:

• Prompt Battle: everyone answers a ridiculous prompt, then the AI or the room picks a winner
• Story Builder and other modes that build on each other's answers

The AI prompts and judging run through a small Node server that calls Claude. The hosted demo runs without that server, so it falls back to built-in prompts.

Key features

• Shared-screen play or room codes for 2 to 8 players
• AI-written prompts and AI judging through a Claude-backed server
• Multiple game modes
• Built-in fallback prompts when the AI server is offline

Technical details

• Frontend: vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Backend: Node.js server using the Anthropic SDK
• Multiplayer: room codes

Challenges

• Getting an AI judge to be funny and fair at the same time
• Keeping the game playable when the AI backend is unavailable

Tags: JavaScript, Node.js, Claude, Multiplayer, Game Design