word shards

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  Word shards on reddit

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  Home screen for game. Daily game on reddit will likely not have practice button.

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  Daily game does not (but could) have a hint button.

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  Practice mode's hint button reveals three "shards" from a target word. Player drags tiles to form word.

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  One tile moved to form target word.

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  First target word found!

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  Second target word found!

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Inspiration

My brother retired and started working on a couple of words games. I was intrigued.

What it does

Simple daily puzzle game.

How we built it

Even though I was a career software developer I was interested in trying to vibe code a substantial project. I was interested in developing a puzzle game framework and once built the games just started to come.

Challenges we ran into

Wrestling with LLMs at times.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I think I've come up with a pretty good set of games. My wife has become hooked on several of the games.

What we learned

How to work with different coding agents, several were used. Trying out game concepts to see what seemed to work and what didn't. Friends provided good feedback. Decent games are a bit of a balancing act it turns out.

What's next for word shards

I'd hope it will develop an audience!

Built With

• chatgpt
• claude
• gemini
• js/html/css
• node.js
• openai
• vscode