Code Typing Game

Inspiration

Inspired by an ipad game I had played years earlier involving doors and floors. You had to choose the right door in order to advance to the next level. Trying to mock that out felt like I was inadvertently creating a binary/trinary typing system so thought might as well run with that.

What it does

Allows the user to practice typing morse code with taps on a phone or arrow keys. WASD should also work on most keyboards.

How we built it

Using bolt.new

Challenges we ran into

Taking the project off bolt and making sure it still ran took some finangling. Also just randomly debugging the game as it went. Later versions spawned included a calendar challenge and premium subscription locked levels. Still buggy but you can find the project folders at [link]

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Using an ai-enabled coding system that seems as close to plug and play as I've tried yet. Have attempted to adopt cursor, sometimes use copilot, am a fervent user of colab/notebooks, and am an investor in replit- I love tools that make it easier to get started. To go from idea to ideation shouldn't take hours and hours of setup or environmental investment. Coding with ai has been a touch and go where I've sunken countless hours, nights to just seemingly endless debugging. So I'm proud we made some actual usable things.

What we learned

They say the most efficient number system isn't base 10 or base 2, it's somewhere like 2.71828 or something. The way that I seem to gravitate towards games that have a simple 0/1 switch with option to 'hold' or 'sit out' leads me to believe that there might be something close to this in the morse code system. 0/1 binary with spaces as an almost 2. Almost 3 characters.

What's next for Code Typing Game

I think making it more user friendly, something someone can just pick up in their spare time and get better at. Something I'd play myself. Perhaps with a paid version that has quotes from classic books or perhaps they import their own data. Perhaps they want to hypnotize themselves with some subconscious message like 'you got this!' For now, just submitting it to devpost will be a firsts of sorts. Have previously only submitted pitch decks to a hackathon or 2.

Built With

• bolt
• bolt.new
• javascript
• python