Show HN: Word Wolfer, Number Wolfer – educational games inspired by Munchers

memalign.github.io

2 points

7 months ago

Hi HN! I just shipped a handful of educational games playable in your web browser. I hope you will give them a try and consider sharing them with the students in your life. I labeled each game with the target grade level (from TK up through middle school, and even high school for Spanish).

I've wanted to bring this style of educational game back to life for a long time.

In the early 90s, my grandmother had a Macintosh with educational games. She was a teacher who specialized in teaching reading. She showed me how to play Word Munchers and I had a blast munching words with the right vowel sounds.

Wolfers games should look good on phones, iPads, and can also be installed as progressive web apps on your home screen. I recently found a simpler way to make PWAs thanks to this minimal-pwa[0] project (via HN). I made this a bit more dynamic and self-contained in Wolfer's pwa.js and added offline PWA support in sw.js. I go as far as to dynamically generate the icon for each game variant using JavaScript. I didn’t realize browsers supported this!

I shared more development details and links to the source code here[1].

0: https://github.com/chr15m/minimal-pwa

1: http://memalign.github.io/p/wolfers.html