Temporal Trivia
An incredibly durable game of multi-player trivia, powered by Temporal. Showcases a human-in-the-loop workflow that uses GenAI for trivia Q&A generation, and workflows to maintain and control the state of the game.
A trivia game built durably on Temporal. This multi-user trivia-game was demoed at Replay 2023 to show off Multi-Region Namespaces. It is a very unique use of Temporal that uses GenAI and workflows to maintain and control the state of the trivia-game.
Players can create or join a game. Category, number of players, number of questions and even a challenge mode are all configurable. Once the game starts, players are presented with questions and multiple choice answers (generated by ChatGPT). They submit their answers and results are shown including a final score once the game completes.
This demo primarily shows a fun way to see the human interaction features of Temporal, demonstrating developer velocity by delivering a lot of scalability and features by leveraging Temporal features.
Our design goals:
- Scale to millions of users
- Support multiplayer and unlimited number of games
- Build using polyglot
- Maintain game state and durability when things break
- Timeout mechanism for questions
- Single source of truth for game logic
- Do it all in a few hundred lines of code!
Problems Solved:
- State Management
- Entity Pattern (Player/Game)
- Controller (Game Loop)
- Durability
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