Show HN: Roll Solver – daily multiplayer word puzzle PWA https://ift.tt/VMsgAIq
Show HN: Roll Solver – daily multiplayer word puzzle PWA So I started this project because my wife wanted a way to check if her word dice game rolls were solvable to avoid wasting time on a roll. I started a building a tool that accepts a picture of the dice and quickly answers if the roll can be solved. Well, that quickly devolved into building a highly-optimized solver efficient enough to run in the browser on WebGPU. Once the solver worked, it turned into an excuse to finally explore multiplayer game dev, which I did with PartyKit and some Cloudflare primitives (durable objects, D1, workers). During this process it all became an actual game I shipped. Where the games features ended up: - A "daily" mode where everyone gets the same 12 tiles each day, and the scoring goal randomly changes (most words, longest word, most crossings, rarest words) tracking streaks and leaderboards. - Real-time multiplayer - 1v1, or drop an invite link into a group chat and up to 10 people race ...