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What creative projects have you been working on?
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My wife and daughter enjoy playing word games together but get frustrated when there's a single profile on a site and they can't both play. So, I thought I'd build them some word games. There's one, so far, called Charming. I've gone to great lengths to try to keep as much data as possible browser-side, so everything is stored in local storage, except when you submit your (randomly generated anonymous) player name and score to the leaderboard. The leaderboards are cleared daily (at midnight UTC). The bonuses assigned to letters and the "charms" in the game are randomized daily. Trying to come up with an intuitive scoring scheme was more of a challenge than I thought. Rewarding long words leads to people just trying to find the longest word... rewarding a word count leads to a bunch of small words. There are still some problems, but if anybody wants to try it out, here you go:
https://www.gorillasuit.io/
I'm happy to hear any feedback! Because of local storage, it may not persist your data if you play in a "wrapped" browser, like you might get when you click the link in Discord or something.
FWIW, the game Gorilla Suit comes from a time when I convinced my kids that our neighbor was wandering around in our yard in a gorilla suit. I was trying to get them to run around outside when they were being lazy.... and it worked! :)
Edit: The back end uses Django. The front end just uses Django templates, some JS, and p5.js for the game itself.
Finally continued stitching this fading rainbow on account of time pressure since it's for a Christmas gift. It's a combination of this idea which I yoinked from the embroidery subreddit not too long ago, and a pattern from a designer called LooseThreadStitchery.
Also made this thing since I wanted more space for memorabilia on the wall but I had neither a pinboard not pins lol
at the start of December I made a lil' blog to post some kind of poetic thought every day. it's something I've wanted to get better at for ages, but was caught in the discouraging stasis of not yet being any good at it. creating a ritual of creating something, however small, every day, has been good.