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It's [here](https://bugs.mikedebo.com).\n\n## The Story\n\nMy 2.5-year-old niece likes insects. Last week, I saw her zooming into photos of bugs on her mom's phone, and I had an idea for her first \"videogame.\"\n\nI thought she might enjoy a simple game where she could look under rocks for bugs. But, to keep it surprising, sometimes there should be non-bugs under the rocks. I wanted it to have a geocities-era blursed vibe to it.\n\nMy partner decided that the surprises should be emojis of our niece’s favorite things.\n\nI chose to make it a progressive web app, because that way my niece could recognize the app on her mom's phone by the bug icon (she can't read yet.)\n\nYou can find the game at [https://bugs.mikedebo.com](https://bugs.mikedebo.com). Make sure to ask your parents if it's OK first.\n\nI'd love to share videos of my niece playing it for the first time, but for obvious reasons I won't be doing that. There was a lot of excited shrieking involved, which made me very happy.\n\n## Instructions\n\n- Scroll around the forest floor and click on rocks to find surprises\n- The surprises sometimes peek out from under the rocks for maximum suspense!\n- You can hurl the rocks by touching/clicking them to reveal the surprise beneath\n- Uncle Mike will announce the insects; Auntie I announces the other surprises. (Auntie I doesn't like bugs.)\n- Clicking the surprise will make more funny sounds.\n\nEnjoy!\n\n## Things that surprised me\n\n- Nora is much better at scrolling than I expected! I originally made the map quite small assuming she'd have a hard time navigating, but I was wrong.\n- I thought she'd like the surprises, but she seeming dgaf about them. It's all about the bugs.\n- Older kids also appear to appreciate the game. I thought it would be too dumb for them.\n- It's liberating to make things for pre-literate kids. Eliminating text reduces options by a lot!\n- I realized that I've made several games tailored to specific individuals. I guess it's becoming somewhat of a thing. I don't consider myself a \"game-maker\", but I find making games for specific people is quite satisfying. I can go from idea to \"gift-sized\" game very quickly.\n\n## Known issues\n\nI wanted the map to start focused on the center of the scrollable area, but the combination of myself and claude-3.5-sonnet could not figure it out. If you do, please let me know. I'm sure it's simple, but learning more about CSS was an anti-goal of this project for me.\n\n## Assets\n\n- Forest floor texture from [here](https://www.texturemax.com/forest-floor-terrain-0006/)\n- Progressive web app template from [here](https://github.com/nikkifurls/simplepwa)\n- Bugs from [here](https://www.cleanpng.com/)\n- Bug icon from [here](https://www.vecteezy.com/)\n- All voices and sound effects courtesy of Uncle Mike and Auntie I. Thanks to Ms Rachel for \"inspiration.\"\n\nThanks to [Cursor](https://www.cursor.com/) and claude-3.5-sonnet for all the help. Claude, I'm sorry I rewrote 95% of your code. It's not you, it's me.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fmichaeldibernardo%2Fbugs","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fmichaeldibernardo%2Fbugs","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fmichaeldibernardo%2Fbugs/lists"}