A library to help waste time via Nonogram Puzzles
Ever since I found out about Japanese Nonogram Puzzles I wasted a lot of time playing them. Trust me, they are way better than Soduku Puzzles.
The end goal is to have three (3) working components. #1-The Game Itself A puzzle "library" that you could simply call once in an HTML page to generate a puzzle based on one simple JSON file which gives the puzzle data in an array.
#2-A Puzzle Verifier A machine learning application that will generate the puzzle hints based on a desired difficulty. It will determine if the hints I've given for a particular puzzle makes the puzzle possible and how long a mortal will take to solve it. We wouldn't want impossible puzzles.
#3-A Puzzle Creator Many of these puzzle are copyrighted, and the chances of creating a duplicate one would be pretty high, so why not solve this problem with a puzzle creator. Pass the app a low res image, it pixilates it, creates a puzzle based on a user desired size and difficulty and spits out the files necessary to embed. A preview will be available to let the user make manual modifications and verify it looks awesome!
#Roadmap This is actually my first Javascript project, so I expect it to come about as I learn new concepts.
STATUS: Puzzle is working, you can give it custom colors for the puzzle and change the answer. Game plays to completion.
NEXT STEP: Re-do the puzzle generation to include space for the hints required to play.
Libraries used: For now I'm using SVG.js for the graphics: http://svgjs.com It's cool and fun, so why not....