Hit the Bell.

Introduction

Hit the Bell is real-time multiplayer trivia — rooms of players racing a sub-100ms bell. We designed and engineered the game loop, the websocket infrastructure and the feel of the bell itself.

Year

2023

Industry

Real-time Multiplayer

Scope of work

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Engineering

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Product

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Product

Timeline

Shipped

Challenges

Real-time games are honest: any lag is visible to every player in the room at once. The bell had to feel instant under 100 milliseconds from tap to result, for everyone:

We engineered the realtime layer on websockets with a sub-100ms bell mechanic, multiplayer rooms and live feedback — tuned until the bell felt physical.

Final thoughts

Hit the Bell proved the studio’s realtime engineering a multiplayer game where the entire product is a latency budget, and it holds.

For us at Inspo, Hit the Bell is the kind of build we like best: one hard constraint, engineered until it disappears.

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