Getting Ideas
My kids have been bugging me about creating another game that they can play. I already have RPS SHOOT which is a twist on the classic Rock, Paper, Scissors game that they enjoy, but that game is nearly a year old now. Kids get bored easily and always want a shiny new thing to play with after all. My daughter is not able to read that well yet so I knew I needed to do something without many words. I thought about the games my kids like to play. Some of their current favorites are UNO, Go Fish, Memory and Yahtzee. They also love to play hide and seek (especially when I pretend to be bad at looking). Last year, I had been playing around with some protoypes using HTML Canvas to try to make a more traditional game on the platform. I looked at PixiJS which seemed promising but was a bit overkill for what I wanted to do. Perhaps I’ll revisit that in the future for other games.
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