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FourWord Game Exampe
Try now at: https://www.reddit.com/r/FourWord/ No login required. Anyone can play.
Inspiration
I love patterns and puzzles and Steganography (the art of hiding messages in an image). I wanted something different from word searches. I originally thought of this game in high school over a decade ago. Originally it was pen and paper game and I even tested in grade 9. My social studies teacher allowed me to print it off for the class and have them attempt it. Lately I've seen a lot of word based games, but not ones I could go back to challenging a classroom full of people at the same time. I was inspired by the Windows DeFragger. I am also inspired by the 1996 show The Pretender where you just keep learning all the skills for all the jobs. Also inspired by my twin brother. They used to test us in school and we got the same score. They said it was cheating. It was twin magic.
What it does
Users are shown a grid of letters and they have to find out which characters only appear once, and form a word with them. There are four rounds and four words, allowing for a more equal measure of skill
How we built it
-/r/ProgrammingBuddies -VS Studio -I used the Reddit Dev Discord to connect with other people and to ask their AI a question for persistence -Stack Overflow (Why are they so angry there? Reddit devs way nicer) -Amazon Q for some coding questions -Patience -Frustration -Elation -Persistence
Challenges we ran into
Learning the Devvit system for hosting games, Radis server silos for time based posts, energy levels. There was a community I could fall back onto for with questions and inspiration so I continued through.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
-Greater understanding of APIs -Making a game -Making it ready for mobile too Hopefully making my retired Social Studies teacher a little proud
What we learned
-Scheduling with crontab -A seeding system to generate the quizzes based on Post ID so that each quiz is seeded the same for players to equally enjoy -Control flow and where to implement it for ease -Getting help from people even if they are not on your team
What's next for FourWord
-An undo button to revert last move -Maybe an option to post score to comments -I may increase the grid size so that words of different sizes can appear. -I would then like to use it to tell a story. Each round displaying a word, and then at the end combining those words into a story, like a player has decoded it. Maybe assemble some people and make it in a desktop game using /r/programmingbuddies /r/inat
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