MVP Project - An endless captcha game... well, endless until time runs out.
I deployed the project on an AWS EC2 instance on 8/9/2022 but turned off the instance on 8/22/2022 to prevent costs from accruing. Players' scores from before the server shutdown are recorded at the bottom of this readme 👇
This is a fun little game I coded up within 3 days. After completing the initial Google ReCaptcha check, the player must complete as many captchas as possible before time runs out. Initially the time limit is 2 minutes, but completing each captcha extends the timer by 2 seconds. Additionally each captcha awards points upon completion-- text captchas award 1 point, image captchas award 2 points, and sound captchas award 3. Text captchas are randomly selected from a selection of 1000+ pieces of text captchas. Image captchas are randomly generated from the following groups: cats, dogs, ducks, bears, waifus, and Keanu Reeves. The images of cats, dogs, ducks, bears, waifus, and Keanu Reeves are all obtained from respective APIs. Sound captchas are randomly selected from a word bank and then spoken using the browser's built-in speech synthesis function. After time runs out, the player's score and the total time survived is logged and submitted to a database once the player inputs a username. Also, there is a button on the top right of the screen to mute the audio.
Background music is Battle! Colress: Remastered ► Pokémon Black & White 2 by Zame.
Image captchas obtained from Fournierp's dataset on Kaggle.
APIs for image captchas from:
I was inspired by the following things:
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| alfred | 266 |
| AlMyPal | 143 |
| Derek | 108 |
| Aaron | 108 |
| bobbby | 76 |
| noa | 69 |
| Harrison | 67 |
| potato | 66 |
| Amy | 37 |
| Minggui | 32 |
| johnny | 32 |
| Gary | 30 |
| Leo | 26 |
| lo | 16 |
| Jason | 16 |
| Lucas | 14 |
| King | 10 |
| Jerome | 8 |
| gian | 2 |