SpookuDoku

Inspiration 💡

The inspiration behind this project was our love for horror movies. We wanted to create an app to demonstrate our knowledge of the genre. An app that would essentially let us test each other on our horror movie knowledge.

A great deal of inspiration also came from PokeDoku (https://pokedoku.com/) and Wordle (https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html), getting elements mostly from PokeDoku, to create our app. These three things combined led us to create SpookuDoku.

What it does ⚙️

SpookuDoku is a puzzle game where people can test out their knowledge on movies of the horror genre.

How we built it 🏗️

The application was built with love using React.

Challenges we ran into 🚩

We were rusty as this is our first hackathon in such a long while and had to warm up the gears not only in development but also in time commitment and in communication. Finding resources for our app wasn’t pretty either. We had to find a movie database with keywords embedded onto them to use as the categories for our puzzles.

Accomplishments that we're proud of 🏅

We are proud that we were able to share our love of the horror genre and created an application that expresses that adoration.

What we learned 📚

Coming off from a hackathon hiatus, we learned what works and what doesn’t. We learned what steps we can cut out to smoothen out the development process and what strategies we can integrate to have a more effective workflow.

What's next for SpookuDoku ⏩

For SpookuDoku, we hope to scale the project and make it more accessible to people. It’d be also great if we can find a way to have our own movie database so we don’t create this sort of dependency with the API we used.