Iām impressed by the entries that have been posted so far!
I may not finish this by this weekend. And I need monospace fonts to get this to look right but I donāt think drag-and-drop supports font choices yet.
I love word games. Scrabble, Boggle, cryptoquips, you name it. I decided to modify Hangman to allow for longer phrases. But longer phrases are sometimes harder to guess so I decided to offer three puzzles at one time all related to a common theme. Iām thinking of calling it This and That and That.
Hereās a preview ā not everything works yet ā showing a sports theme where the answers are āMiami Dolphinsā, āGolden State Warriorsā and āLos Angeles Lakersā. Youāre solving all three puzzles at the same time!
Wonderful! This was a really cool idea. Iām so glad Hangman was chosen as this weekās theme, Iām crazy over all manner of puzzles and word games. I hadnāt heard of crypto quips but it seems really cool (I Googled it).
itās a nice game but itās not really a hangman style game where you try to guess the letters of a secret word.
maybe when we get a WDC for a word search game, you can submit it then.
Well, I created ah hangman game too. Yes, but it works on a web viewer for i am a basic coder on thunkable and i am not able to make such good games as you so this is the link-Thunkable . Here is a video on it- https://photos.app.goo.gl/4XgZwPQEQY46YTqf8 . I was seeing everyoneās and mine is vannila javascript game. Please check it out!
I donāt make the WDC rules (and I think excessive rule-making would ruin some of the fun), but I think thereās a place for the web viewer within Weekend Design Challenges, for sure! There are lots of places where one might use javascript as a Thunkable extension to make something cool happen within the app, and Iām interested in seeing clever ways to extend what Thunkable can do. I love WDC because itās a chance to learn something new and develop my Thunking skills. I like seeing how other Thunkers have approached the problem differently, and Iām really interested to hear about your process - why did you decide to do it the way you did?
So, I hope no one reads this post and thinks they canāt include some Javascript in a future WDC, because some Thunkable-Javascript combinations are super interesting to me, and Iād like to be a better Javascript coder, too!
However, this submission doesnāt teach me anything about either Thunkable or Javascript. It appears to be a direct copy of code thatās posted on the internet, and there are zero Thunkable blocks and only one element. @tanish-satpal , I hope next time youāll submit something thatās the result of your own work. Will it be as cool as embedding someone elseās javascript into a web viewer window? I donāt know, but I do know itāll be YOURS, and youāll LEARN something by building it.
Oh, Iām so sorry @catsarisky ! I never thought about it that way. Of course it would be great to use JavaScript to add cool features. In my WDC 10 I used a web-viewer for a copy-paste function. I just posted that because I believed that since this was all javascript (and possibly not his own too!), it wasnāt exactly a candidate for a Thunkable WDCā¦ A little bit of javascript to add extended functionality and features is great, but not when using just a web-viewer and web-development code for a WDC thatās in fact intended to showcase what you can make using Thunkable (and not just a web viewer). Iāve deleted my post because I never intended for anyone who reads it to feel that JavaScript is absolutely out of the question. I wholeheartedly agree with you on the fact that Thunkable + JavaScript makes a cool combo. Iād love to be a better JS developer, too- so far I barely know how to change the text of a label. Thanks for pointing it out! Once again, I never intended for it to be take the wrong way and whoever read my post, please donāt think you canāt use JavaScript. Just make sure that you use it alongside Thunkable components.
I think (but this is just my opinion) that if the WDC brief has inspired you to build it, posting it here is fine! But post it somewhere! Now Iām interested to see how you made a game out of finding palindromes!
I totally understood what you meant - that ONLY using a webviewer around some other content isnāt really doing the WDC ā but I didnāt want a newer user to think that webviewer was forbidden or something!
I donāt see a really specific set of rules or guidelines for the WDC, so Iāll tell you my impression of what the rules are. I hope some of the other regular WDC participants will also chime in and help improve this answer, so that it more fully reflects the opinion of the community, not just my opinion.
Major reasons & goals for participating: (mine personally, yours might be different!)
Learn something new about Thunkable / develop new Thunkable skills
Get inspired by other projects
Push the limits for what I can do with Thunkable / what Thunkable can do
Motivation to build something that I might otherwise not have built
WDC challenges tend to be short, so I can knock one out in a day or two, and Iām done before I get bored.
"Rules" (but rules are meant to be broken, so more like guidelines)
Have fun.
Learn something.
Build something that responds to the brief posted by @domhnallohanlon , but donāt be afraid to do something a little different, ignore part of it, or whatever else makes it fun for you.
Itās a āWeekendā design challenge, so try to be done by Monday. Or Tuesday. Or Thursday. Really, if youāre still having fun building your app, youāre welcome to keep going with it as long as you like! Just donāt be surprised if Dom summarizes the posts and everyone moves on to the next WDC.
This is the Thunkable Community, so people will expect your WDC entry to use Thunkable in a significant way ā not just to display a webpage. But donāt feel too limited by this ā lots of submissions have used some Javacript in a webviewer, or an API call, or a some Google Sheets trickery, or whatever. Those are all perfectly fine, and I like learning how folks have extended Thunkable to make it do new and interesting stuff!
Say something about your submission - whatād you do that was new/different/interesting/challenging/whatever? Thatās a great place to give credit if you used or remixed someone elseās code, too.
Final thought: I think the āCā in WDC is Challenge, not Competition. I hope this is a friendly place for novice builders and more experienced folks, both. If youāre having fun and getting better at Thunkable, youāre doing it right!
Hey all @overturner here.
Iām back with my new WDC submission.
Its called āFunzoneā (I would have to work on the name )
This is the first time I have extensively worked with the text blocks so I hope my app is good
I started working on my submission when @domhnallohanlon posted for voting- so I have 1 essential part of my game and 2 additional parts.
Guess The Word
This game consists of two APIās - one is a random word generator and one is a word info API. I used the random word generator API to get the word and the info API to get the definition and synonyms. So this essentially translates into a spelling bee app (without the word)
Guess The Word Remix
This game is a bit easier to play with only a few letters missing in the word.
A RPS(Rock Paper Scissors)
This game was pretty easy to code - it has two opponents - computer and you. You can play this simple game anytime you want to.
What I would like to include in future :
A leaderboard page
Timed Games
A Profile Page to view My personal high scores etc.
Badges
Improve the User Interface
Pictorial representation of wrong guesses
Thanks
Big shout out to @catsarisky for helping me out with my problems.
Looking forward to your feedback on my app.
My App Details : App Link
Blocks
Guess The Word : 236 Blocks
Guess The Word Remix : 56 Blocks
Rock Paper Scissors : 107
Total : 399 Blocks
I am in, with a simple Word Search Game
