Game Mode

Turn any deck into an audience-interaction activity. Game Mode reuses the slide engine to render the game while a separate Socket.IO room collects player input, tracks scoring, and shows a leaderboard.

Game types

NavSlides ships 10 interactive game element types:

Game	What it does
Name picker	Wheel- or dice-style random picker (great for cold-calling)
Hot potato	Timed question relay with an optional leaderboard
Jeopardy	Team-based category board with point values
Four corners	Players commit to one of four answers/corners
Relay race	Round-based team race through a question set
Trivia champ	Multi-round trivia with optional lightning and jackpot rounds
Scattergories	Timed category brainstorm scored on unique answers
Live poll	Presenter-driven polls with public aggregate results
Word cloud	Audience responses summarized into a word cloud
Matching	Drag-and-drop pair matching activity

A game is just another element type you insert on a slide, so an existing presentation can be promoted to a game without authoring a separate file.

Roles

• Host / presenter: runs the deck and drives the game with presenter shortcuts (HUD, timer, reveal, leaderboard, pause, team select)
• Player: joins from a dedicated player join page with a game code and a nickname, then answers from their own device

When to use it

• Lectures and workshops where you want quick comprehension checks
• Conference sessions where you want to surface audience opinion
• Classroom activities that don't need a heavyweight LMS

Game state and scoring are handled by a dedicated socket handler (server/services/game-socket-handler.js) separate from the live-presentation rooms.