You're an alien* and you've gone and crash landed right in the middle of a summer camp for 11-year-old girls. One of them disguises you as a fellow camper, and you might be safe, but a government agent man has ALSO disguised himself as a fellow camper. In this Jackbox-like Survival Horror / Paint game, your ability to draw cute woodland creatures as convincingly as a human would is the only thing protecting you from certain vivisection.

*Okay, this description only fits one of the roles. You're probably not going to be the alien.

For the full game experience, you will need 5 - 8 players, a large monitor, and a cell phone per player. There's a single (or up to 20) player experience for people who just want to draw badly without any of the danger or social coordination effort.

Tip we found while playing with friends: Consider playing a round of free play before you play the real game. That way, everyone can get a feel for the controls and get a chance to draw as the alien before you add in the pressure of trying to guess who amongst you is your enemy. Excluding the story, the whole game loop takes under two minutes, and the story is the same for free play and the full game, so you only need to go through it once.

QUICK START GUIDE

(This guide applies to all modes including single-player mode.)

1. On your computer, go to https://fellowcampers.herokuapp.com/ and look in the upper left corner for "Host a new game". Click that.
2. In the upper left, locate the four-letter room code.
3. On your cell phone, go to https://fellowcampers.herokuapp.com/play/ and enter in your desired name and the room code. Click join.
4. Once at least one cell phone is connected, on your computer, you'll see a "Free Play" button (right and down from center) and when you reach 5 - 8 players, you'll see "Play This Mode".
5. The buttons to advance through or skip the instructions are in the lower right.

Changelog

• Added in the final voting round and winner calculations. Removed the directions to calculate this yourself.
• Added custom player display names.
• Added a button to skip the directions.
• Changed it to keep art open during the voting phase.
• Fixed some SVG scaling issues that had been breaking the flip and skew filters, and turned the filters back on.
• Scaling has been ~~fixed~~ replaced with new scaling issues that are not as bad. If you have game-breaking scaling issues, send me a screenshot if you can.
• Started preloading images so the game runs smoother.
• CSS / layout fixes
• minor bugs and typos

Planned near-future bug fixes: - Probably just going to try to make the css layout again from scratch to make all the scaling issues go away, knowing what I now know about css scaling. - Sometimes one of the player devices doesn't get a message from the host and it breaks the game for a bit. Will look into making it more robust. (If this happens to you, the fastest way to fix it is to just refresh the host room and start over; sorry.)

Oh also

I'm making a list of the multiplayer games I've seen, so people can find them when they have people to play with.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/fellow-campers/the-big-list-of-multiplayer-games-now-with-danger

I've switched Heroku back to free mode (with auto-downtime) after the rating period, so if you are from the future and the link doesn't work, try again in a few minutes.