Gamejam Devlog Friday and Saturday


I'm participating in Weekly Game Jam for week 81. The theme is words.  Friday I came up with many game ideas. I am thinking of making a game for each of my ideas eventually, perhaps as a collection of games in one game. Saturday I decided to focus on one of my ideas. It is to select some random words that have the same number of letters, arrange them in a square grid, and then shuffle them. The player can move a letter to any position on the grid. The goal is to make a word on every row of the grid. Eventually I will grab some publicly available word list, but for now I just used this site https://www.randomwordgenerator.com/ to generate a list of 100 four-letter words. I'm using Love2d as my game engine. So progress so far is that the game picks four random four-letter words, shuffles them and draws the letters on the screen in a grid. I'm laying the groundwork for the future. Next step is to put the letters on top of square tiles, and allow the player to click two tiles to swap them. The final version will allow the player to drag tiles, but I'm not sure how to animate that yet, and I need to test how the game plays first to see if it will be fun.

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