Can you guess your friend's favorite albums? Async game: Crate Diggers

Crate Diggers is a game where one player is the “digger” and everyone else is a “guesser”. The digger is shown 4 music albums: Artist/Title/Year/Album art. They pick their favorite, or which one they would buy or whatever (their own criteria).

Then, any other player can guess from the same 4. At any point, the digger can end the round by revealing their guess. That’s it!

Guessees are displayed as they come in, and status updates of who’s digging and what the final reveal was are posted in the chat.

It actually has a nice rhythm to it, it’s low stakes and fun, and async of course. I vibe coded the whole thing with Claude Opus 4.8. The key insights, however, were to select albums from 1985 - 2015 (which fits the age group of myself and my friends), and to “pre-bake” the album metadata into the xdc bundle (because you can’t make network calls of course). I guess it would be nice if the album selection criteria and range were configurable?

MIT license - github/audiodude/crate-diggers

How much space does the .xdc file take up?

I’m curious if you can use a lot more than 124 albums

It’s 1.9MB. How big are these usually?

You could definitely add more albums, it just depends on the criteria you use. I think the curation is important. I chose “#1 album from 1985-2015 in rock and pop, plus some obscure picks” and it came up with a metric for “obscure” that I don’t remember (I could look it up).

After that, the pipeline stays the same. It uses raw album title search for finding the albums.