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babl

READ ME - Babl

What are we doing?

Welcome to Babl! We've decided to build a brand new language-guessing game for the internet! Inspired by Wordle and Neardle, we've brought a brand new take to daily word puzzles.

How to play

Every day, a new phrase in a foreign language will appear on Babl. You have to guess what language the phrase is written in (it doesn't matter what the phrase actually says). If your guess is right, you'll win! If your guess is wrong, we'll tell you how close you got. You only get 6 tries. Good luck!

List of Broken Things

Before continuing build, see if you can fix one of these things. We've all been making major logic changes and we all collectively broke it. Yay!

Thing	What Happened?	Root Ideas
Footer padding	On some devices, no footer padding	div?
Share button popup	Pops up underneath the background dim from the share modal	Use Z-index to move a layer up (not sure if it'll work or not)

Build status

Currently working on it! Here's our task board. Feel free to update based on your current tasks.

Task	Status	People
CSS & HTML Basic Site Setup	COMPLETED	LUKE
Input for words	COMPLETED	LUKE & WYATT
Language Proximity Calculator	COMPLETED	LÉO
Fonts and graphics	IN PROGRESS	LUKE
Guess boxes	COMPLETED	LUKE & LÉO & WYATT
Time sensors	IN PROGRESS	LÉO & ABE & WYATT
Case senstitivity and spaces	COMPLETED	LÉO THE MADMAN
Solutions	COMPLETED	WYATT
Troubleshooting	COMPLETED	EVERYONE
How-to Modal	COMPLETED	EVERYONE
Move files to Git	COMPLETED	LÉO
Final hosting	COMPLETED	WYATT

What we're using

We're hosting our code on Replit and GitHub. We've been programming with HTML, CSS, and JS. We're also using some JSON to store large data (eg. language proximity, possible solutions). We're hosting with GitHub, through babl.day.

Contributors

• Luke Dreyfuss, Wyatt Foster, and Léo Fitzpatrick: Original creators and programmers
• Abe Kirschner, Danica Stout, & Dylan Rafael: Troubleshooting and technical setup
• Abe Kirschner & Ryder Something: Inspiration and logistical setup
• Josh Wardle: For being a legend and making Wordle
• Open AI: For making ChatGPT to helping us debug (and usually break our code)
• elinguistics.net: The original producers of the algorithm we use
• @polvanrijn on GitHub: Author of the scraper program for elinguistics.net

Thanks to everyone that helped make this project possible! It really takes a village.