Charades – a simple JavaScript app

The objective is a game of charades. Building a simple interface for it will improve your basic skills and knowledge of JavaScript.

The game runs in the browser only, no backend required.

Basic requirements

1. Load a list of answers from a JSON file, once at the start of each round. Prepare the file yourself.
2. Pick a random answer for the players to guess.
3. Let the user mark the answer as guessed or missed, and view the results.
4. Add an option to reset the game.

Future improvements

1. A time limit for a round:
   • a 120-second countdown
   • a button that starts and resets the countdown
   • when the countdown ends, the answer is marked as missed
   • marking an answer as guessed or missed stops and resets the countdown
2. Measuring the time of a round:
   • the results show the time spent on the round
3. Categories of answers:
   • the user chooses from 3 categories
   • changing the category resets the game
4. Players:
   • an interface for entering player names
   • the user can choose the current player
   • the results show the player
   • a color for each player, shown in the list of players and in the results; optionally, the background of the whole app changes too
5. Keep the game state between sessions (for example in localStorage).