L-words

A simple word game that can use different language dictionaries and alphabets to help you gamify second language learning.

Basic instructions for play:

• Choose 'new game' from the menu at the top left
• Find words from the jumble of letters that appear at the top, 3-12 letters
• Click on a found word at the bottom to see its translation (only into spanish for now)

Features

• designed for mobile device or desktop
• very basic Rails backend
• javascript
  • Backbone
  • jQuery
• CSS
  • Skeleton
  • large amount of custom styling
• wordreference API for translations

Steps towards creation

• create basic Rails backend with a controller to serve the one page app
  • store word list files by language
• front end javascript
  • to click letters, reset board, keep score, etc.
  • allow user to pick languages