I'm Real

https://www.imreal.pw/

Have you ever tried to prove that you're real?

I don't mean "Prove to the court that I am sentient" - Jean luc Picard

Though honestly sometimes signing up to a website is just about that hard!

This LD started out as any other for me, plan to make a game, and see what happens.

Well I wanted to build an online game (I've done a few multiplayer games, so this is not out of reach for me). The first thing that I needed was a signup screen! Simple...

Damn, do you know how hard it is to do signup well? Like seriously, signup should be really simple. You give me all your details, I send you an email, you click a link, and you're magically signed up.

Well... It's not really that easy. What happens when the email never gets to you? What about if my email goes to your spam folder? What if you're using a work email account, and your work blocks my message because "it looks like spam"?

Yikes, what a minefield I found myself in.

About 5 minutes of thought into "This could be better, how should sign up really work?" And I came up with ideas for "I'm Real - A signup revolution"

So I bought a domain (imreal.pw) and hooked it up to AWS. Then I went about planning my architecture.

Signup screen: Website => AWS API Gateway => Lambda => DynamoDB => (Back to Website)

Emails follow this: Domain => DNS => MX (send to AWS) => AWS SES => AWS Lambda => AWS DynamoDB

And I ended the weekend by creating a simple SAAS service that could be extended out to be an entire Signup, Authentication and User Management Platform. I think it's got potential, but would need time and money thrown at it :-/

I hope you will "Have a play" with the signup that I created, I think it's cool, I hope you like it!

I know it's not a game, but this is as far as I could get with my game! I got as far as doing a really nice, polished, functional and useful sign-in framework. I made a tool that will go in my armoury, and I'm really proud of the quality of the result :)

Personal note:

So this was an interesting LDJam for me. I thought I was going to write a game, then I thought I was going to write a thing, and somehow I ended up building a bit of a SAAS concept, with minor implementation that actually works, and kinda a manifesto? a manifesto for how website signups could be better-ish.

Yea this was a really interesting LDJam for me. I think this might be the last "game" I try to write, LDJam has helped me narrow in on my real passions which are programming and solving real issues, so I hope you like what I've done.

I also recently got myself a few AWS Certifications (Checkout my linkedIn ) - so I wanted to make sure I used those skills, and have something to put into my Portfolio showing my AWS Skills.