Games
This section gathers posts about architecture, reliability, software craftsmanship, and the lessons I’ve learned building systems. It’s a place to demonstrate engineering intuition alongside project work.
Introducing -struct-: building words from roots, suffixes and prefixes.
This is the first post about a side project I worked on about a year ago: -struct-, a browser-based word game. The name is a pun using the root — struct (from the Latin struere, meaning ’to build’), and the whole game is about building words out of their constituent parts (morphemes).
The idea
The inspiration for this game came from my love of Scrabble. In Scrabble, unless you have the ability to consistently play bingos (I do not!), your highest-scoring play for a given rack is often not to make the longest possible word with your tiles. Making an overlapping play or using a small number of high-scoring tiles on a bonus square can reward you with a surprising number of points. Take this example: