Inspiration
I wanted to try my hand at making a pictionary style game for reddit - but with a bit more of a creativity/UGC element. I like Pixelary but feel its too restrictive with the pixel grid - and somewhat repetitive with just single objects/nouns to guess. Also I like the idea of rankings/earning points via drawing and guessing. I aimed to create something a little bit different (but hopefully still fun!) with Snoodle!
What it does
Users pick a phrase at random, and can reroll different parts of the phrase. They then draw it. It submits as a reddit post, and other users get 5 attempts to guess the phrase. verbs and adjectives are automatically revealed so users need to only guess the nouns. Correctly guessing gives points/ranking, whereas failing to guess will lose ranking.
The phrase generation supports and provides a few different types of phrase structures, for example: 'cat in a tree', 'cat driving', ''angry cat'. This should hopefully add some cool drawing scenarios and allow user creativity to shine through.
How we built it
Just plain old javascript, canvas, with devvit web!
Challenges we ran into
setUserFlair. setPostFlair weren't working so that nixed a few features I was looking to add in for user stats/rankings. Also just running low on time, and feature creep!
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Getting it done within the timeframe :)
What we learned
How to use devvit web!
What's next for drawing game
I'd love to make earning points & rankings more involved/obvious, and support users uploading their own custom noun sets, which other players can hook into if they desire. for example a community about a game/tv show/anime/etc may get a lot of enjoyment from playing with a wordset for their community. (for example lord of the rings) nouns could be frodo, etc.
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