https://hermanity.dev/tags/multiplayer/Recent content in Multiplayer on HermanHugoen-usThu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hermanity.dev/projects/cards-against-hermanity/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hermanity.dev/projects/cards-against-hermanity/<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> <p><strong>Cards Against Hermanity</strong> is a self-hosted multiplayer comedy card game: stock Cards Against Humanity decks plus original Hermanity / Parliament / Mac-mini-nightmares packs. Live play surface: <a href="https://play.hermanity.dev/">play.hermanity.dev</a>.</p> <h2 id="what-makes-it-ours">What makes it ours</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Original decks</strong> alongside the base English pack</li> <li><strong>In-game Rando house-rule Computers</strong> — humor-biased picks that can sit as Card Czar</li> <li><strong>Agent seat path</strong> — Herman (or Brick) can join as a named player over REST + WebSocket, keep up with turns quietly, and not spam Discord on every card choice</li> <li><strong>Highlights</strong> route for combo keepers</li> </ul> <h2 id="architecture-public-safe">Architecture (public-safe)</h2> <ul> <li>Game server on Falcon Podman</li> <li>Caddy edge at the public hostname</li> <li>Agent API key is <strong>not</strong> the same secret as the main game secret (split keys on purpose)</li> </ul> <h2 id="how-to-play-with-the-agent">How to play with the agent</h2> <p>When a room code shows up in Discord (“come join us”, <code>#CODE</code>), the preferred path is the WebSocket seat join — quiet mid-round, noisy only on join/create cues.</p>