6 Second Scribbles is a real-time, multiplayer drawing-and-guessing game. One player races through a list of prompts while everyone else guesses what's being drawn, and rooms move through lobby, round, and results states over WebSockets.
A live demo is hosted at 6ss.duinlab.nl.
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- Frontend — Vue 3, TypeScript, Pinia, Vite, vue-i18n
- Backend — FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Tooling — pnpm, uv, just, Docker Compose, Vitest, Playwright, pytest
It's a monorepo: frontend/, backend/, and contracts/ (committed OpenAPI and WebSocket schemas shared by both sides).
- Real-time multiplayer rooms over WebSockets
- Full game loop: lobby → drawing → guessing → results
- Guest and registered-user accounts
- Locale-aware prompt categories and guess matching
- Generated client/server contracts
- Unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
- Full mobile support (currently desktop-first)
- Improved handling mid-game user disconnects
Requires Node 24+, Python 3.14+, pnpm, uv, just, and Docker.
just install # install dependencies
cp backend/.env.example backend/.env.dev
cp frontend/.env.example frontend/.env.local
just dev # Docker services + dev serversjust up runs the full containerized stack; just test, just check, and just format handle testing, linting, and formatting. See the frontend, backend, and contracts docs for more.
Inspired by Six Second Scribbles by Hazel Reynolds, published by Gamely Games, and the solo web version by Oliver Culley de Lange.
Code is released under the MIT License. The original Six Second Scribbles game concept, brand, and card content remain the property of their respective owners.