TableTime
The tablet runs the game. The people are the game.
A games host for two people around a table: music rounds, pub quizzes, charades and table games, read aloud by the tablet so nobody has to host.
Screenshots
Captured from the debug build running on an Android 14 emulator.
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What TableTime is
TableTime turns an old tablet into a host for an evening in. Two players set their names and a comfortable text size, and the tablet runs the rest — reading prompts aloud through Android's own text-to-speech, keeping score and handing turns across the table. Sixty-two games are built from thirteen reusable engines: music intros and decades, music bingo, pub quizzes answered aloud, private charade prompts, word and category games, conversation and nostalgia rounds, reaction and rhythm games, dice, a 90-ball caller and scorekeepers for physical games. Nine short original instrumental demos are bundled for the music games, and a household can add its own music from the device, read locally and never modified. There is no account, advertising, analytics or Internet permission at all.
What it does
- Sixty-two games for two players, built from thirteen game engines
- Prompts read aloud by the tablet, so nobody has to host
- Pub quizzes answered aloud — reveal, then award points
- Music rounds using bundled original demos or your own music
- Charades, word games, dice, a bingo caller and scorekeepers
- No account, advertising, analytics or Internet access
Getting TableTime
TableTime is still in development and is not distributed yet. It is roughly 70% of the way to a first public release.
At a glance
- Status
- Active Development
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Runs on
- Android (Android 6.0+)
- Offline use
- Works offline
- Package
- uk.co.tabletime
- Last updated
Privacy
No account, advertising, analytics or Internet permission. Your own music is read locally and never modified or uploaded.
Permissions
- Music and audio
- Only when you choose to scan the device for your own music collection.
- Vibration
- Optional feedback, which can be switched off.
Technical details
Technical details
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How it is put together
- Sixty-two catalogue entries are built from thirteen reusable game engines rather than sixty-two separate screens.
- Speech goes through the tablet's installed text-to-speech engine; the interface stays fully usable without it.
- The packaged APK requests no Internet permission; household music is read through MediaStore or the file picker and never modified.
Development workflow
Built through ChatGPT.
Timeline
- Version 1.0.0
Debug build verified with desktop tests and lint; the release build is unsigned until the owner's key is applied.
Accessibility in the app
- Large, extra-large and massive text sizes, plus system font scaling
- Instructions spoken aloud, with repeat
- Twelve solid-colour themes
- Labelled player controls and opposite-seat rotation
- Score undo, pause and resume
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