The players are presented with a grid of letters with only one acceptable way from start to finish: through the text of a randomly selected 'popular' tweet.
A playable game.
- Scrape twitter for the top 5-10 most popular tweets at the moment.
- Choose one at random.
- Implant it in a grid (as the correct path through the maze).
- Will remove user tags, but keep hashtags
- Randomly fill in the remainder of the grid to obfuscate the path.
- Allow the user to traverse the grid.
- The user will be scored on the number of moves it takes them to complete the maze (minimum is the len(tweet)).
- Once completed, displays the tweet and author to the user, and the user's score.
- Tweepy
- PIL
- Back-end to scrape twitter, scrub text into readable format, return text for the maze generator.
- Back-end for the maze generator that takes the given tweet.
- Back-end to move the character around the maze and score their progress.
- Front-end to display the maze and 'character' moving around it.
- Front-end to display menus for working through the program.
- Export generated maze to PNG.
- Change difficulty to harvest from less popular tweets.
- Change 'popular' to mean most re-tweeted or most liked.
- Colorize the maze.
- Standalone executable for any file system.
- Web embedded application.