My 2.5-year-old niece likes insects. Last week, I saw her zooming into photos of bugs on her mom's phone, and I had an idea for her first "videogame."

I thought she might enjoy a simple game where she could look under rocks for bugs. But, to keep it surprising, sometimes there should be non-bugs under the rocks. I wanted it to have a geocities-era blursed vibe to it.

My partner decided that the surprises should be emojis of our niece’s favorite things.

I chose to make it a progressive web app, because that way my niece could recognize the app on her mom's phone by the bug icon (she can't read yet.)

You can find the game at https://bugs.mikedebo.com. Make sure to ask your parents if it's OK first.

I'd love to share videos of my niece playing it for the first time, but for obvious reasons I won't be doing that. There was a lot of excited shrieking involved, which made me very happy.