Film Cue — Roger Erik Tinch

Film Cue is a two-player card drafting game about making — and unmaking — films. Built as a real-time multiplayer web app with SvelteKit and TypeScript.

The hero leads with the stakes, not the rules — 'before your opponent does' is the first thing you read. The card fan shows the art without spelling out the mechanics.

Pre-Production. Five card backs, a generated player name you can recast, and a Vs CPU toggle with two difficulty levels — so you can play without waiting for a second player.

What your opponent sees when they follow the link. A generated name, a card back pick, one button to start.

The game

Pick a card. Pass the rest. Both players draft simultaneously over three rounds, building a film from six card types:

Screenplay — collect Acts 1, 2, and 3 for 10 points
Package — match Director and Actor pairs for 5 points each
Buzz — compounds; each copy collected scores more than the last
Multiplier — triples the value of all Film cards in hand
Film — worth 1–3 points, triple when paired with a Multiplier
Prestige — held all game; most earns +6, fewest loses 6

The Green Light lets you play two cards in one turn — but it travels to your opponent with your hand. Timing it right means knowing what you’re leaving them. The Film Multiplier lets you stack a Blockbuster, Indie Hit, or Cult Classic for triple score.

Round 1, Turn 1. Ten cards in hand, always visible. The opponent's zone is locked until both players pick.

Both picks surface simultaneously before the hand passes. You see what they took, they see what you took — then the remaining cards rotate.

Doc Brown wins 47–41. The breakdown shows each player's round-by-round score so you can see exactly where the match turned.

Design

Each card shows its own scoring rule. No separate rulebook.
Six card types, each with a distinct visual identity tied to how it scores.
Dark UI, minimal chrome. The cards are what you’re looking at.

Engineering

Real-time multiplayer via room codes — players join with a single code, no sign-up required. The game stays in sync through all three rounds. Built with SvelteKit and TypeScript, agentic-engineered with Claude from game logic through deployment.