Well, I’ve finished my first LD Compo. It was pretty grueling, fun, and ultimately I did get something finished. If I’d had the idea earlier, it might even have been something fun. My original, now abandoned project, will be picked up again tomorrow and will be something I’ll work on over the next few weeks. Hopefully it will turn into something fun.

In the meantime, I hope that if you try “Great Discoveries in Human History” you’ll find something amusing in it. I’ve been blown away by everyone’s entries and I can’t wait to try them all! Here’s my last screenshot…

GDHH is a memory/matching game with a tongue-in-cheek view of history

You click on a tile to reveal it. Click on a second tile to see if they match. If so, you score a point and the tiles are removed. The extra trick here is that you have to match the discovery or invention with its benefit to humanity (or the problem it solves). These are from a decidedly modern American’s perspective. It’s built in some fairly vanilla Javascript with help from a server-side PHP script. Oh and jQuery/jQuery-UI. This may be the ugliest code I’ve spit out, but it’s done! Also I had no time after coming up with all the discoveries to work on art, so y0u get black and white. FYI, there’s 71 pairs of discoveries and benefits in all.

Good luck to everyone!