Summer Wordsearch

Inspiration

I wanted to build a simple project and a word search game was the first thing that came to mind

What it does

It's a playable game with an interactive and intuitive UI

How I built it

I first made a class with all the methods related to solving and generating a puzzle, including randomizing words and their positions and orientations on the matrix, and next I made a simple UI

Challenges I ran into

Sending data back and forth between functions, variables and classes was definitely a challenge that I had to use a lot of brain cells to keep track of

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I managed to generate very random-looking puzzles with good word placements

What I learned

Planning out a project beforehand really pays off because it allows you to make code a lot cleaner and more robust

What's next for Summer Wordsearch

Perhaps implementing a backtracking algorithm would make for a better solving sequence

Built With

• pygame
• python