"All The Words That I Know" game

[xenotropic]

Project description

This is based on a facebook post by author-editor Nathan J. Robinson, relevant extracts below:

In order to relax I am writing a document called All The Words I Know (In The Order I Think Of Them), in which I try to list every word I know . . . It gets harder and harder as you go on of course and realize that you've already used lots of words. I realize this may be a strange way to unwind but people do sudoku and stuff and this doesn't feel much different to me . . . . it gets harder and harder to find ones you haven't used . . . . i bet one could write a simple program that would turn duplicates red or something if one knew how to do such things.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create such a simple program. I think a simple webpage with javascript would do it.

Relevant Technology

Plain vanilla HTML+ javascript would probably be fine, but libraries might make it prettier. Someone ambitious could make it fancy with accounts, saving your file, a leaderboard, and suchlike.

Complexity

• Beginner - This project requires no or little prior knowledge of the technolog(y|ies) specified to contribute to the project
• Intermediate - The user should have some prior knowledge of the technolog(y|ies) to the point where they know how to use it, but not necessarily all the nooks and crannies of the technology
• Advanced - The project requires the user to have a good understanding of all components of the project to contribute

Required time (ETA)

• Little work - A couple of days
• Medium work - A week or two
• Much work - The project will take more than a couple of weeks and serious planning is required

Categories

• Mobile app
• IoT
• Web app
• Frontend/UI
• AI/ML
• APIs/Backend
• Voice Assistant
• Developer Tooling
• Extension/Plugin/Add-On
• Design/UX
• AR/VR
• Bots
• Security
• Blockchain
• Futuristic Tech/Something Unique

[YaMo97]

This could be a nice simple game. Some similar games are Scramble, Hangaroo, Jumble words, etc.

Talking about the technical aspect of this game, we can use a Tree Data Structure to store the inputs of the user, which makes it easier and optimal to check for duplicates with linear complexity (O(n)), similar to bucket sorting.

This could be also made a Mobile Game, with a decent childish UI and UX with vibration and cheerful sounds. This could also be targeted towards kids, making it good for learning.

And to make it addictive we can introduce scoring according to word length and a leaderboard.
Additionally, some Google Play Achievements would make it even more addictive, thus increasing the retention rate.

Later, advertisements could be introduced, make it sustainable and pay server and maintenance costs with the earnings.

[YaMo97]

Moreover, we can introduce a timer, to make it more challenging, which when runs out resets the score to 0.

[fossguy]

@YaMo97 Great ideas about enhancements to a nice simple game like this one.

I just want to touch on one point you made earlier:

Talking about the technical aspect of this game, we can use a Tree Data Structure to store the inputs of the user, which makes it easier and optimal to check for duplicates with linear complexity (O(n)), similar to bucket sorting.

I don't think we need to store the words that have been entered into a Tree and perform sorting/searching algorithms or the like. I think a Set would suffice and would allow for O(1) look ups for looking at words already in the Set (the data structure inherently does not allow insertion of duplicates.)

I've mocked up an initial concept here.

This initial concept obviously makes assumptions on several requirements and doesn't do any validations.

Hope this helps; looking forward to what you (or anyone else) creates!

[TheSameerAli]

Sounds interesting. I'll set up an initial GitHub repo mock (with some implementation) this weekend and see where we can go from there. Can be a cool side-project and keep adding features in.

Can I get a cool name suggestion for this game? :D

[TheSameerAli]

I've started some initial work on this but still under setup/mvp dev phase. Will update with some more info in a week or so but feel free to check it out and provide feedback.

[amritghimire]

I have created a preliminary app at @amritghimire/word-game and deployed it at https://word-game.amritghimire.now.sh/ . I am working on validating the words currently.

[TheSameerAli]

Hey, I've created an initial MVP and deployed up here: https://thewordsiknow.sameerali941.now.sh/ - Do check it out. I'll be adding more features very very soon!! https://github.com/TheSameerAli/TheWordsIKnow - I'll be working to tidy up some contributing and project management process sometime tomorrow so feel free to go through issues and contribute if you like!

@amritghimire - Great start, check mine out too! Want to contribute on mine? I've roughly implemented word verification too so check it out and feel free to use it as inspiration!

[AmruthPillai]

Here's my submission to this awesome Open Source Idea:
https://github.com/AmruthPillai/All-The-Words-That-I-Know

I have tried to implement multiple difficulty levels as well, with Easy, Medium and Hard, where the hard difficulty level would expect you to enter at least an 8 letter word and gives you only 60 seconds to do so.

You can play the game here: https://pillai.xyz/word-game

[FredrikAugust]

Wow! Great work @AmruthPillai <3 Looks and feels wonderful! @xenotropic, would you say that your wish has been fulfilled?

[xenotropic]

Definitely.

[FredrikAugust]

Hurrah! Another completed project :)

[FredrikAugust]

Added the project to the completed hall of fame in the README! Thank you to @xenotropic for the suggestion, @AmruthPillai for the final product, and @TheSameerAli and @amritghimire for great attempts!

Good job everyone!

[xenotropic]

Hey @TheSameerAli is the code for yours still available? The repo you linked is gone.