I Re-created My Favourite Childhood Game
Do a Google search on “Casio calculator game” and you will be brought to pages that describe a particular model of Casio calculator sold in the 1980s called MG-880.
I spent my days just button mashing this thing and it was addictive as it was simple – you just have to match the numbers that are approaching and press another button to “shoot”. When you make a sum of 10, an “n” appears and when you shoot that it clears the field.
So I entered a prompt into Google's AI Studio just as a way to test the process of building an app on this platform. I had some difficulties. It took less than an hour to get an MVP working, but guess what, it took more than a day to troubleshoot why the leaderboard doesn't work. And I don't think I need to use firestore to handle this. We'll see.
But, if you just want to try it out, I've shared it here – don't get too attached to the leaderboard yet, it is unpredictable. Give me some time to fix it in the next few days.
Have a great weekend.