Story of how imgur share turned into a game 🎮
by Neea7 weeks ago I saw this post on reddit where someone was sharing pictures of their child's owl sudoku game. These are the original pics.
I like strategy games in general and I thought this was adorable. At the same time I was very tempted to make a web version of what I was seeing.
And sure enough I did just that. My first version was complete the next day and it was single level with owls. I shared it with the OP and got some good feedback.
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For the game itself I used a sudoku package which was originally written by some Google engineer and ported to javascript by some kind person. But the games it generates are very difficult and no ability to adjust the difficulty.
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I used react to make the game and with many cards and things at play the rendering on low end devices was just crap. Turns out box-shadow transitions are very expensive haha.
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With a more difficult game it is difficult to organize everything in the mind so the OP from reddit suggested I add ability to take notes.
Even with these issue the first version was playable but I was super excited with what I had made since this is my first game and I wanted to build it more!
I have since then added more game elements like levels and scoring. I have added steps to improve the baseline game generator to make the games easier earlier on with gradual increase in difficulty. I have added notes. I have also improved the rendering and am able to run it with mid range android device which I think is a huge accomplishment personally :D
Theme-wise I have gone from owls to animals, and now on to "pictures" in general. I did this because it gives me more room to add more levels and other fun stuff later. I don't want to box myself in too early.
So with all that said I invite you to test my first ever beta game. It is still a work in progress but playable. Please leave feedback if you play it.
