PRESS KIT
Marquee Games is a native Google TV party-game suite. The TV is the stage; guests join from their phones with a QR scan — no app to download, no controllers to pass around. Built for the living room, not ported from mobile.
WHAT IT IS
5 games, one app, one purchase. Marquee Games ships with Letter Roulette, Wild Guess, Hot Take, Game That Tune, and Interrogation Room. Free to install with a starter pool of puzzles; a single $9.99 in-app purchase unlocks the full library across every game forever — no subscriptions, no per-play fees, no ads.
The phone-as-controller pattern means hosting a game night requires no friction for guests. They scan a QR on the TV, enter a name, and play. Every game has a family-friendly mode and an optional adult mode, toggled in the lobby so the same app fits a Friday family night and a Saturday house party.
THE GAMES
Letter Roulette
Spin the wheel. Guess the letters. Solve the puzzle. A cinematic word game perfect for family game night — three players (CPUs fill empty seats), so it's just as fun solo as with friends.
Wild Guess
How many hairs on a rabbit? Take your best guess — closest without going over wins. The ultimate house party game for up to 10 players. The bigger the group, the bigger the laughs.
Hot Take
Rank five items from love to loathe — then see if your friends know you well enough to guess your order. The party game that starts arguments and ends in laughter.
Game That Tune
Hear the snippet. Name the song. From '60s soul to '00s pop, every decade is a category and every player thinks they know more than they do. Sing along when the song reveals.
Interrogation Room
Put one player in the hot seat and ask a question only they know the answer to. Everyone else guesses how well they really know each other. Closest absolute wins — the more personal the question, the more dangerous the laughs.
WHY IT'S DIFFERENT
- Native to the TV, not a mobile port. Built in Kotlin + Jetpack Compose for TV. D-pad navigation, leanback-required, 1920×1080 working resolution. Most "Android TV games" are mobile games stretched to a TV — Marquee Games was designed for the living room.
- No app required for guests. Players join through a web URL (marquee.games/r/CODE). One install on the TV; everyone else just scans the QR.
- Interrogation Room is the differentiator. An original personal-question numeric-guess mechanic. One player at a time sits in the "hot seat" while everyone else guesses how well they really know each other. Closest absolute guess wins. There's nothing else like it on the platform.
- Both family and adult modes per game. The same app handles kid's game night AND the after-party, with a mode toggle in each game's lobby.
- One-time price. No subscriptions. No per-play fees. No ads. Pay $9.99 once, unlock everything forever.
FACT SHEET
- Developer
- Obviouschild Productions, LLC (solo indie)
- Platform
- Google TV, Android TV, Chromecast with Google TV
- Phone controller
- Any modern mobile browser — no app install required
- Price
- Free to install · $9.99 one-time IAP unlocks the full library
- Players
- 2–10 depending on the game; CPU opponents fill empty seats in Letter Roulette
- Modes
- Family-friendly and adult, per game, set in the lobby
- Library size
- Letter Roulette plays 1–3 (CPU fills empty seats). Wild Guess plays up to 10. Hot Take plays 2–9. Game That Tune plays 1–9. Interrogation Room plays 3–8.
- Release
- [LAUNCH DATE — TBD]
- Backend
- Firebase (anonymous auth + Realtime Database)
- Built with
- Kotlin + Jetpack Compose for TV (TV), React + Vite (phone controller)
THE PITCH (60 SECONDS)
Jackbox proved that phone-as-controller party games work — but Jackbox runs on consoles, not Android TV's installed base of 150M+ devices. The TV-attached game-night audience is real, underserved, and growing as Google TV ships in more devices and operators bundle it as default UI. Marquee Games is the first party-game suite designed specifically for that hardware.
The product opens with the games you'd expect from a party suite — a word game, a trivia-adjacent guessing game, a ranking game, a music ID game — and then introduces Interrogation Room, an original mechanic that turns the table itself into the game. It's the kind of design that's hard to copy because it doesn't come from a template; it comes from sitting at a real game night and asking what mechanic would make the room laugh harder.
ABOUT THE DEVELOPER
Marquee Games is built by [FOUNDER NAME], a solo developer at Obviouschild Productions, LLC. [REPLACE WITH 2–3 SENTENCE BIO: design background, why TV party games, what the company is and isn't.]
PRESS CONTACT
Demo access, embargo coordination, interview requests, screenshot kits.