[Dancer-users] Dancer implementation of Boggle word game

[damien krotkine]

Hi,

Oh I remember Boggle, I played it a lot when I was young :)

Yeah I'd like to see an online version too :)

On 5 July 2012 10:31, sawyer x <xsawyerx at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Nathan Marley <nathan.marley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello fellow Dancer devs!
>
>
> Hey!
>
>>
>> For anyone familiar with the word game Boggle
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boggle&oldid=496588593), I have
>> implemented a very basic version in Dancer, which can be found here:
>>
>> https://github.com/nmarley/BoggleGame-Dancer
>>
>>
>> It uses the Dancer::Plugin::Ajax and jQuery for the word list. It isn't
>> multiplayer (yet), and doesn't validate any words.
>
>
> That's really cool!
> Is there a version hosted online?
>
>> Other TO-DOs include to add a timer, to add grid validation (see if the
>> word actually exists in the grid), and to lookup which user-supplied words
>> are actual words in the English language (or any other language — different
>> language dictionaries could be another feature).
>
>
> I would set up a hackathon to work on it with other people.
>
>> Code is here (https://github.com/nmarley) feel free to fork it on github
>> and comment/update.
>
>
> Will definitely look into it!
>
> Thank you so much for sharing! :)
> S.
>
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