Description

We had the wonderful Lucia Velasco working with us as a contractor for a year at Disney Streaming. This project is based on her brilliant word-shower repo.

My version makes the following changes:

• Uses React
• Aims to be playable on a small screen
• Adds speech recognition
• Brings in a couple of things from Scrabble:
  • Distribution of letters:
    • 1 x J,K,Q,X,Z
    • 2 x B,C,F,H,M,P,V,W,Y
    • 3 x G
    • 4 x D,L,S,U
    • 6 x N,R,T
    • 8 x O
    • 9 x A,I
    • 12 x E
  • Values of letters for use in scoring:
    • 1: A,E,I,O,U,L,N,S,T,R
    • 2: D,G
    • 3: B,C,M,P
    • 4: F,H,V,W,Y
    • 5: K
    • 8: J,X
    • 10: Q,Z

TODO

🚧 This repo is still work-in-progress 🚧

• Animate the active letters
• Complete the Instructions pane
  • Main instructions for playing the game
  • Mention that Web Speech API continuous mode may not been supported
• Complete the Settings pane
  • New letter interval (say 100ms to 2s, default 400ms)
  • Letter speed (say 1s to 10s, default 5s)
  • Strict Mode - in this mode, for the word KISS to be valid, there would have to be two instances of the letter S in the list of active letters
• Improve the UI on smaller screens
• Improve the UI on larger screens
• Use Phaser to implement the scrolling letter tiles
• Add a burst of confetti when a word is found

Links

• Lucia's Word Shower repo
• Web Speech API