Chiby.io: Better Questions, Better Stability & 1,000 Players! 🎉

The past couple of weeks have been focused on polishing the experience and adding new content!

🖼️ Guess The Image keeps growing

Guess The Image has become the most-played game on Chiby, so I’ve been focusing most of my time there.

This update adds two new categories:

• 🐘 Animals
• ⚔️ Gods, Heroes & Monsters

I’m also continuously expanding the image library so every session feels a little more varied.

Smarter answer choices

One thing I noticed while watching people play is that some multiple-choice answers were either too obvious or completely unrelated.

To improve this, I introduced what I call Distractors. Instead of picking random wrong answers, each question now tries to offer believable alternatives.

For example:

• If the answer is Zeus, you won’t see obviously incorrect options that don’t fit the context.
• If the image is a bird, the wrong answers are now other birds instead of completely unrelated animals.

The result is a game that’s both fairer and more challenging.

🎨 UI Refresh

Several parts of the interface have also received a visual refresh:

• 🖼️ Guess The Image
• 📚 Guess The Image category selection
• 🎨 Draw It mode selection
• 💬 Take Side question selection

These are all small improvements, but together they make the experience feel cleaner and more polished.

🔧 Server Improvements

A lot of work also happened behind the scenes.

I’ve improved the reconnection system and fixed several networking issues that could occasionally cause the client and server to fall out of sync after a temporary connection loss. In some cases, this could prevent players from continuing the game correctly after reconnecting.

These fixes should make multiplayer sessions much more reliable, especially for players with unstable connections.

🚀 A Small Milestone

The biggest milestone? Chiby.io reached 1,000 players in the last month!

For a solo project that’s still in active development, seeing so many people give it a try has been incredibly motivating. There’s still a long road ahead, but it’s a great reminder that Chiby is moving in the right direction.

🔮 What’s Next?

I’m continuing to focus on improving the games people already enjoy while making Chiby accessible to more players.

Current priorities include:

• 🌍 More language support.
• 🖼️ Even more Guess The Image categories.
• 🎮 Ongoing gameplay, stability, and UI improvements based on community feedback.

💜 Join the Community

As always, thank you to everyone who’s been playing, reporting bugs, and sharing ideas. Every bit of feedback helps shape the next update!

If you’d like to help shape Chiby, join our Discord community! It’s the best place to report bugs, suggest features, vote on upcoming ideas, and chat with other players. Many of the improvements in this update came directly from community feedback!