We (at DEV and MLH) are covering AI Engineer's World Fair by printing a physical newspaper called "The Daily Context" everyday of the conference.
We wanted to include a game in each issue so for today's first edition, we published a little word search affectionately named "Vector Search":
I built this game with AI Studio and deployed it to Cloud Run. It was super easy to put together and I love the little touches included in the game (answer reveal, confetti upon completion, etc). You can play it right here:
I discovered a funny little "bug" this morning right when we were about to go live with the digital version of the paper.
Or well, maybe I can't actually call it a bug. AI Studio went above and beyond and built me an app where the word search changed on every refresh as opposed to the static word search I had printed in the physical paper. The words being searched remained the same, which is why I didn't notice this immediately.
While a new word search is definitely a better gaming experience, attendees were told to visit the digital version of The Daily Context for their answers so I had to quickly simplify the app to ensure the print and digital versions matched. Certainly a type of problem that wouldn't have happened pre-AI!
Thank you to everyone who responded to my post last week:
If you didn't see your words used today, I'm sure it will pop up in our other games this week. Stay tuned for tomorrow's puzzle!
Top comments (34)
Love how this came out!
I tried the game. Awesome, and addictive.
What an awesome use case! Love word games so I'll be playing away 👀👀
Thanks for helping with the fun @fm, @technogamerz, @dannwaneri, @nazar_boyko, @hemapriya_kanagala, @xulingfeng, @gramli, @sujalavnelavai, @joshua-fields-dev, @javz!
and @nicksukie, @jula-markova, @cnongera, @oparaugo_michael_f02c4c0d, @sunychoudhary, @annavi11arrea1!
@jess Well played. I was thinking of doing this, but oh well XD
My eye burns from looking at the letters. Once I figured the words can be backwards, I fainted lol.
Thoughh....I did complete it. Nice to see this Jess!
You're lucky I couldn't get diagonals to work easily 😄
Next time perhaps words in tetris shapes? 😂😂😂😂 EVIL 🙈😶🌫️
😂🤣
Oh god I was hoping there wouldn't be any lol
Better, implement hallucinations, so as you fill it, it starts changing old values, but still thinks they're right 😶🌫️
I call it 'dementia mode' brilliant, cant remember who thought of it though? What were we talking about again?
Really cool! Reminds me of newspaper word searches 😂
Huh, that's actually really cool that Dev.to can embed it like that... Who'd be interested in a series of games that cover programming paradigms and concepts?
Eg. Just mocked up a crossword in ai studio that covers blittables to explain the concepts and features of the various types? Or maybe a multi-step word puzzle that covers the systems a command goes through and the state, eg. when a LLM is run, what's the journey of an input to an output, with an arithmetic counter to 'step through' the tensor modifications in an easier to understand way?
✋️ I would!
I'll give it a go for tomorrow and tag you in it, so you can give it a go, I'll have a look how long it takes me, might be a daily thing, might be a weekly thing, who knows 😂
LLMs are Demented is almost done. Just busy fine tuning the difficulties a bit 🤣 it's gunna be such good rage-bait, but they'll love it! Once I get it on my cloud run and get it ready, I'll tag you in my challenge, I wanna see if anyone can beat my score 😁 (it wont be easy...)
Awesome haha 🦚😂 I was wondering what was happening!
Wow, cool! I used to play it as a kid 🥰
Cool!
I love it's multi-directional nature 🥰
I was only looking horizontal. That's why I Couldn't solve all
Nope - it goes vertical, diagonal and reverse too 😂
Fun 😀, but the styling is pretty poor with regards to ease of actually playing the game. The really dark cell borders add WAY too much visual noise. Much better UX like this:
Also, the underlying CSS and HTML is far from great... but nobody cares about that kind of stuff any more, right? 😉
Atleast UX designers are safe from AI... (for now)
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