This video illustrates one of Protopie’s strengths, which is the ability to create closer to real experiences. It shows two instances of the same prototype, each running on its own device, but able to talk to each other. The intention was to mimic the kind of behaviour that might occur in a clinical setting with multiple receptionists managing patients arriving for and making new appointments – but this uses a quiz format, where the players can choose their question types (as available from  the 4000+ questions on the OpenTrivia Database ).

A question can only be answered by one of the two players and scores are penalised for incorrect answers. There is no need to answer every question. When a player has done their best they can see their own score, but when both are done, they see each others’ scores and can review the correct answers.

I think it is reasonable challenge to the other prototyping platforms to be able to create something like this – yet many many real world experiences (in healthcare especially, but elsewhere too) have exactly this kind of multi-person requirement.