Nanagrams

Overview

A game that's like Bananagrams...but one-player....and nana-themed.

Instructions:

• Create a crossword using the tiles below.
• If you get stuck, drag your unwanted tile to DUMP.
• Once you have used up your tiles, click PEEL to get another tile.

Planning

I decided to use Trello to organize my user stories and created a wireframe in Balsamiq.

Wireframe of Nanagrams

Technology

• HTML/CSS
• JavaScript, jQuery, & jQuery UI for the drag/drop functionality
• WordNik API

Future features & TODOs

TODOs:

• Timer!
• The "WIN" function does not work
• START Button
• WIN End Screen
• Styling updates and CSS bug fixes
• Refactor ( a lot! )

Other Features:

• Animated grandmas
• Make a nonsense poem using the words they made
• Highlight the tiles RED when the word is wrong & Highlight the tiles GREENish when the word is right

Timeline:

02/04/2016

• The tiles are able to drag & drop
• The program accesses the Wordnik API to check whether the words are legitimate.
• New additions: Peel & Dump buttons. They mostly work, but need to be tweaked.
• I made it nana-themed. It looks gloriously hideous. You're welcome.

02/03/2016

• The game is now able to search vertically and horizontally for words and check whether the word is in the temporary dictionary array.
• Letters can automatically & randomly populate - currently, there are only 17 since the board has only 36 slots.

02/02/2016

• Wrote 'user stories' to organize TODOs: https://trello.com/b/geCES9ro/nanagrams
• Created a temporary board & a few temporary tiles
• Click functionality included: When a player clicks a tile then clicks a cell, the tile appends to the cell.