Weeble

Inspiration

I was inspired by the Spotle.io game which is a daily music wordle game. It was fascinating to me how the developers were able to successfully create something that is culturally relevant in a wordle style game. Particularly so because with non-word based wordle games, there is a persistent issue of reaching casual fans.

What it does

Weeble is a daily anime wordle game where users have 10 attempts to guess the daily anime tv show. Players are also able to generate hints using generative ai to make the game easier. After winning or losing, a shareable recommendation path is generated that displays the users guesses alongside with a personalized anime recommendation based on their guesses.

How we built it

We used openai's image gpt 1.5 to generate a series of icons that represent anime shows. We built our web app using devvit, reactjs, vite, supabase, nodejs, and the openai api

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge I ran into was that it is nearly impossible for fans to guess the daily anime if they simply haven't seen the show or heard of the show. OpenAI's image creation ai was crucial for getting around this. Through the use of advanced image generation, users are able to turn the game into a linguistic picture challenge (similar to pictionary) where they can guess the title based on an ai generation that is a literal depiction of the title. For example, the title "Naruto" would be used as a prompt to generate a picture of the Japanese fish cake.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of building an game that is enhanced by the use of AI and not impaired by it. We are additionally proud to have created an anime wordle game where the gameplay doesn't infringe on the copyright of anime creators.

What we learned

We learned that the biggest barrier to entry is not building the product but marketing it. Although there are still improvements to be made regarding the gameplay, the question of how to reach our target audience is still a problem to be solved.

What's next for Weeble

The next step is marketing the game on Reddit and building a community around it. We are also actively adding new daily anime challenges.

Built With

• devvit
• javascript
• react
• vite