Case study · Presentation Night

A party game, built from a blank page.

Presentation Night is a free, browser-based party game that hosts PowerPoint and presentation nights for a group of friends. It's not a redesign of anything — we built it from scratch, end to end, as a working web app rather than a brochure site.

The Presentation Night web app: a dark, gold-accented party-game host screen

The idea

A presentation party, properly run

"Presentation nights" are a simple idea: a few friends each give a short, often silly, talk and the group crowns a winner. The fun is real; the admin is not. Someone has to decide the order, keep time, remember the rules and tot up the scores. Presentation Night does all of that for you. One person hosts on a big screen, everyone joins from their phone, and the app runs the night — for four to ten people, in person or over a video call.

What we built

Everything the night needs, in one app

Spin a wheel, draw chaos cards, time the talks, and crown a winner.

Shared real-time rooms

The host opens a room on the big screen; everyone else joins with a room code from their phone. Spins, votes and scores sync to every device the instant they happen.

Spin to choose

A wheel picks who presents next, so nobody has to volunteer. It takes the awkward “who goes first?” moment out of the room.

Chaos cards

Optional twists drawn mid-talk — a curveball rule or challenge that keeps presenters on their toes and the room laughing.

Time the talks

A configurable countdown with a fullscreen TV mode, so each talk stays on the clock and the whole room can see how long is left.

Vote from your phone

Everyone scores each talk from their own device at the same time. No paper, no shouting over each other, no host tallying by hand.

Leaderboard & podium

A live leaderboard through the night, then an animated podium reveal to crown the winner at the end.

Under the hood

How it's built

A real web app, not a page with a form on it.

  1. 01

    Built from a blank page

    No template and no page builder. The whole thing was designed and coded from scratch, which is why it does exactly what the game needs and nothing it doesn't.

  2. 02

    Real-time at its core

    Players join a shared room and everything stays in sync — spins, timers, votes and scores update on every screen at once, with no refreshing.

  3. 03

    Two screens, one game

    A big-screen host view for the room or the video call, and a phone view for each player. The same session drives both, so setup is about two minutes.

  4. 04

    Fast and install-free

    It runs in the browser with nothing to download. It loads quickly, works on a phone, and holds up whether the group is in one room or spread across a video call.

The outcome

The result

A polished, real-time game that's live and free to play right now. It's the kind of thing people assume needs an app store and a team behind it — and it's the proof that when a site needs to actually do something, not just sit there, we can build it.

  • Real-time multiplayer across phones and a big screen
  • Custom-built, no template or page builder
  • Free, install-free, and quick on a phone
  • Works in person or over a video call
Play it live →
Presentation Night on a phone: the host screen with a spin wheel and a join-by-room-code prompt

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