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A sample puzzle from start to finish.
Inspiration
This started as a project to help someone out with puzzles they had created. His puzzles worked but needed a framework. Summit is my favorite game of the games I created, I wanted an arithmetic based game.
What it does
The top number is fixed. The other numbers can be rearranged. The goal is to arrange the numbers so that each number is the sum of the two beneath it.
How we built it
I'm a recently retired software developer and had played around with AI some. I decided to see if I could build a framework using typescript that was flexible enough to build tile based puzzles.
Challenges we ran into
Code quality at first, lots of spaghetti code. The second try was better but still a bit of a mess. The third time did the trick, I learned to lean more on practices I followed during my career (proper testing, keep things simple, etc.).
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Mission accomplished, I'm very happy with the framework. I can spin up a new game idea using AI very quickly, rework the UI, etc.
What we learned
I learned a lot about using AI to develop code, that not all coding agents are the same and that the evolution of the tools is amazing.
What's next for Summit
Hopefully its popularity will grow. I truly like playing it everyday along with Wordle and Connections.
Built With
- bash
- claude
- codex
- typescript
