Hey everyone! John here. Mic Drop is a hobby project I work on in bursts. When I make meaningful updates to the game, I write about them here.
If there's a change you'd like to see, feel free to send me an email.
Emoji, and a way back to the lobby
You get a random emoji when you enter a room. Tap it in the lobby to swap it for one of hundreds. It shows next to your name on the scoreboard, and when you score or win it rains down with the confetti. First come, first served: once someone in your room has one, it's greyed out for everyone else.
When a game ends, the host can send everyone back to the lobby instead of jumping straight into a rematch, so people can leave and friends can join before the next game.
Play on your own
There's an arcade-style one-player mode now. You can start a one-player game by starting a game when you're the only one in a room.
In one-player mode, you get a word and 10 seconds to think of a song containing it, and the run ends when the clock does. You get three skips per run. Claiming a word pauses the run so you can actually sing it. Try to beat your personal best, or play with friends for a co-op experience!
Clearer rules
How to Play has been rewritten and now covers both modes.
New look
Mic Drop got a redesign: darker, warmer, and a little more polish.
How to Play now walks through a real game, with screenshots of each step.
Links you paste into a group chat unfurl with a new preview image.
Invites, leaving, and rejoining
Getting friends into a room is one tap now: share an invite link and it drops them straight into your lobby, no code to read out loud. You can still copy-and-paste the room code, which was the old way, or share the URL from your browser bar.
There's a real Leave button now. If you leave by accident, rejoining puts you back in your seat with your score intact.
Your screen stays awake while you play, so your phone stops locking halfway through a round.
Create Room and Join Room are proper pages, so the back button does what you expect.
Mic Drop, rebuilt
Refreshing the page no longer throws you out of the game. Your seat, your score, and the round in progress all survive.
Games survive server restarts, so shipping an update no longer ends everyone's game mid-round.
Two players can use the same name without breaking the room.
Play Again no longer crashes the game.
Round results actually appear at the end of a round.
Skips, confetti, and the rules
A Skip button for words nobody can do anything with, on a 15-second timer.
Confetti when you score, and a great deal more of it when you win.
The rules are on the site, and the most impossible words are out of the word list.