Connectunes

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Inspiration

We all enjoy or at least appreciate the addictive nature of daily puzzle games. Some of our team members wanted to do things involving music and API interactions, so over the course of about an hour we came up with Connectunes!

What it does

Connectunes is a modified version of the New York Times game Connections, where players are given 16 words that can be grouped into 4 categories of 4 words. Our changes take this idea and combine it with the popularity of Spotify Wrapped, creating a personalized puzzle game based on your most popular songs. Additionally, this is intended to be similar to the NYT games in that there are multiple games, so we also have a color by number game based on your most played albums, and plans for a crossword and/or a trivia and ranking game.

How we built it

Our techstack is Javascript, heavily using the Spotify API and an open source lyric API lrclib. We made some rough mockups on whiteboards and in Figma, and spent the 24 hours of the hackathon with at least one person coding every hour.

Challenges we ran into

Spotify requires OAuth authentication to use its API, and at some point the dev token we were relying on for local testing began to get hit with rate limiting.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This was one of our team's first time using Javascript, and first time using external APIs like this for another, as well as the first hackathon for half the team. Despite all this newness, we managed to realize a lot of our intended project!

What's next for Connectunes

After the hackathon, we will likely slow progress significantly, but this project has a lot of horizontal growth potential, and we have a lot of ideas for more games and interactions.