Motli

Motli is a series of Node and Go packages with the aim of building every possible tile-based word game. Because words are fun

Fundamentally: build a platform for building word games, so it extremely simple to try out new ones and to combine them. Inspired by the way the rules of Word Play interact and build on eachother, and also just in general the plethora of great games that work out to be something like having some number of randomly chosen assortments of tiles and making words out of them. Examples/inspiration/things I can imagine reproducing here are:

• Wordle
  • Woordle - lost the link but mastermind rules showing count, not showing the actual letters that were in the right place/wrong place
  • Quordle
  • Octurdle
• Scrabble
• n-d scrabble
  • 3d scrabble on SourceForge? Little suspect but I like the idea?
• Word Search
  • Strands
• Anagrams
  • Bananagrams
  • Spelling Bee
  • Boggle
• Other things:
  • roguelite (Word Play, but fiddle with the rules a bit)
  • codenames??
  • crossword??
  • sudoku?

I think there is a bit of a fine line here in between straight up stealing mechanics and putting it into a single place (probably justifiable but a bit odd) versus building a platform to empower the creation of more games. The latter would be the goal. Stealing mechanics is of course legal and all of these games are built on eachother anyways, but you gotta Strive.

While fiddling with this idea because of course scope creep, my thought is to first support command line, build out to support chat apps (e.g. discord, slack), online, mobile (React Native?), multiplayer-over-webrtc, high scores, sharing of "prompts" (many games have starting positions, let people set up their own daily/weekly/whateverly puzzles to share with friends), multilingual support, etc