I have once again delved into the world of imagery, and conjured up a interesting project combining Google App Engine, Django, Python, FlickrPy and Flickr. The project’s idea is that with Flickr’s huge resource of images one should be able to create a game similar to pictionary, with the player guessing and Flickr “drawing”. My attempt at making this game is called What the Flickr?!
That sounds easy!
Well your wrong. Unfortunately, playing What the Flickr?! is difficult due to the Flickr search engine being based on crowd-sourcing. Since all of their terms are user-generated, some search terms come up with completely unrelated results. Thus my first order of business was to figure out a way of getting around this problem.
Unfortunately I haven’t found it yet. So I thought about other methods of making the game easier, and the one I came up with was to make a extremely targeted word list. I wanted words which were commonly used. After scouring the interwebs I found this site. I grabbed all the words except for the “operations” column and plugged it into the Google datastore.
So what happened next?
A bunch of coding, then no coding for awhile followed by a bunch more coding. Essentially I completed the whole site in about 3 hours broken up into three sessions. Not bad for someone who has only done the Django tutorial.
The reason why I am failing at doing a nice code breakdown is for a couple reasons. First, I am keeping the code internal for now because I have some different plans for it as well as it being pretty unfinished. Second, I am completely exhausted and sick. If you have a problem, bite me.
So, can I play?
Of course! That is the reason I made this post (and to fulfill my 1 project a month goal). You can play the game here.
Have fun, and hopefully next month I will have something a bit more interesting!