Knock, Knock Gamedev
Can you see me? Do I look ok?
Can you say a few words about yourself?
Yeah, so the name is Kavi and I'm
actually from Nuremberg.
I'm not from Nuremberg, I live there at the moment. 
I'm originally from Sri Lanka.
And I came here to do my Master's and the cool thing was when I was doing my Master's.
I came up with the idea, called Whammychat
and then we started building the whole thing.
As I was doing my Master's, and now
we're funded,
I came to this event today also to present the idea, to see if other people like it?
Hopefully, we can.
Funding is till November 2019 and I want to continue working on Whammychat even after that.
So I hope Whammychat become something big from November also
Can you say a few words about Wammychat?
So Whammychat is...
What we doing is  combining discussions and gaming together and making discussions fun
Think of us something like the reddit on steroids
In Wammychat what you can do is you can start any sort of discussion that you want so any topic
Say is the earth really flat and then
you have this topic people can join
The discussion that you like and the cool
thing is in the discussions you can
write like how we write in WhatsApp, but
the twist here is that all the messages
have health so if you don't like a message you have these certain powers
in your, in your discussion, you can take the powers and you can attack a message
if you don't like it and then the health of
the message will reduce
or if you like the message you can heal it or decorate it and stuff like that
so it's interacting in a discussion on a
different level
then just writing and speaking it's also like battling people while discussing so that's why we chat
How you get the financing from the government?
yeah so we're funded by a fund called
Exists gründerstipendium
its fund by the economics and energy Ministry of Germany and the European Union
there's another ESF fund from the European Union and we got the fund
I found out about at the University one of
the people at the university told me to apply for it
because we could be potential for it
I was a bit doubtful at the start
because it needed me we needed
to be based on something more towards
the business side and research side but
we were more towards the
gaming aspect of things in the end we
just applied for it luckily we got the
funding and yeah now here we are so it's
about the funding totals to about
125 thousand euros you have a salary with it and also on top of that you have money
to spend for a startup and it lasts for
one year so we are funded from
2018 November to 2019 November
yeah we want
to being soft launched about two weeks
ago and now we have to get working when
you start working with the streamers and
let's see how it goes yes exactly
so it will be implemented as OBS extension - widget?
Exactly, so streamers use a software called OBS
there are different kinds of OBSes
users like stream labs exactly and
in OBS so we tried make with which
extension but that was too much of a
hassle because there are a lot of rules
and regulations so we thought go with a
browser source a browser source
basically is a URL link all the streamer
has to do is on OBS insert the browser
source link and he can then adjust the
size of the chat on the screen and he
can position it anywhere he wants and
that's about it
the only thing right now is you have the
mobile app so you chat to the mobile app
but the Twitch login and it's much
easier because it's more fun to use with
the mobile I would say and you can also
use it remotely you don't have to be say
your followers are you know and you're
not streaming and you still want to
check with followers you can really
remotely without being on stream because
it's a mobile app at the end of the day
Some technical question from me, is it using some sort of encryption? Peer-to-peer
right now we do not have any encryption
on board we want to have in the b1 if it
doesn't cause much issues in the future
we want to have some sort of even in to
end encryption but the cool thing is for
us to have encryption we need to even be
storing it and I think I explained in
the presentation we do not store
conversations the score screen that
appears at the end with the top five
comments of the discussion but the rest
of the conversation is not stored so
even if there's encryption the only kind
of encryption is end-to-end where if
some if your messaging someone right now
on the for another hacker could
intercept your message but I don't think
that's a serious issue for us right now
so we might implement in the future
if people ask for it
exactly or for people I've done the whole kind of chain
of things I've done the bit of I did the
prototype design I've done some of the
Android programming now I'm focusing on
the business and marketing side cuz
that's my strongest side but I
understand the whole I understand the
design and I understand the programming
part as well so that's kind of helpful
for me so yeah
Last game you played?
I think I'm even ashamed  to say it so I don't want to say but I
can tell you my favorite game if you
want okay
last game I played I think was minion
rush yeah I was bored I had to occupy
myself somehow me and brush is fast and
easy it was fun also
but best my favorite game if I was huge
into MMORPGs and I was small I played I
hate I couldn't afford like the paid
ones like World of Warcraft Silk Road
I'm even so called I played but on the
free limit I paid it up the filament and
I didn't know about private servers back
then but my favorite I would say is
Knights online it's oh it's a classical
MMORPG it's not mainstream but there are
quite a lot of people playing it I
recently found out a lot of
Turkish people play it which is cool but yeah
nights online would be my favorite
MMORPG for the oh geez worst game ever
what doesn't even come to my and last
game I'll update not too sure I mean
sometimes I've heard people pitching bad
ideas like bad games like I like I
really found the point that the guy said
at the present that one of the audience
members said it to the first guy who was
making his game he's like okay your game
is there but how is it different or what
do you really want to do with the game
he just said he's developing it for the
fun of it I understand a project should
be fun but if you're developing
something why not take the extra effort
and make it at least something different
or something exciting which people want
to play just because you develop it
doesn't mean people want to play they
want to play because it's fun and it's
also a bit different so yeah i right now
know worst game comes to mind but I've
seen bad games when people pitch it so
If you face Gabe Newell - what you will say to him?
If a face whom?
Gabe Newell
Creator of the Steam and Half-life
All right...
Famous guy! You don't know him?
No! Shame on me. I was MMORPG dude
I played half-life a bit but I didn't know
about him so I wouldn't know what to
tell you because I don't know much about him
yeah so you can download Whammychat on the App Store
and PlayStore. They both are there right now
it's a bit buggy at the moment because
we just launched it but if you want to take
and give it a whirl give us feedback will
be super helpful. The cool thing is if
you're streamer which is important you
can use browser source from Whammychat to
enhance your stream chat so I mean you
can use the WhammyChat discussions on the Stream
