vocabulary games

RiddleMaker (aka Word Math) was a code lib. for RiddleMakerUI but also cli interface built on top of the Princeton WordNet database, allowing for word set relationship evaluation like: 'chunky !stumpy => lumpy' (chunky not stumpy = lumpy). The repository for RiddleMaker and RiddleMakerUI can be found at webserver:~/repos/RiddleMaker[/RiddleMakerUI]

A RiddleMakerUI (WinForms) program was included as part of RiddleMaker with a screen to "mine" (search) for word synonyms that filled a riddle in the form "What is something that is X but not Y(synonym of X)? Z(synonym of X and not y).

Word Math was an Android app concept where you could type in word math operations like 'delicious - yummy' in a sort of calculator style and it would give back results (delightful) using the WordNet database as well as detailed steps that show the synonyms. The code is located on webserv ~/source/repos/kh/wordmath.git.

Ascii_Adventure was a web application game that was built to be a mini game with motivation to be a simple ascii graphic adventure game as part of either RiddleMaker or Word Math. Initially there was going to be a word math domain name for a web application for all these concepts, however most of the tools were built using Windows or Android specific code. The js code is incomplete (only 1 level and unpolished graphics) but can be found at web home page / ascii_adventure and requires a particular monospace font for it to display correctly. The game's navigation design, while clunky, is to simply have every game action be a link you click that refreshes the page and passes in a 3-piece integer data set which represents the current level, place, and item.