TweetX

Inspiration

Twitch plays Pokemon and FTL.

What it does

It is a space shooter collaboratively controlled by Twitter mentions.

How we built it

• Front end: JavaScript, it draws the game state to a canvas,
• Back end: Python, it simulates the game, receiving tweets to a Twitter account, that control the player.

Challenges we ran into

• Twitter performs rate limiting and does not allow duplicate tweets to be sent by users,
• Scrolling the map on the front end relative to the player took some time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It works-ish.

What we learned

• Unlike Skynet, Python is not self-aware,
• Dolphins are whales,
• Features are important.

What's next for TweetX

Actual features. A whale.

Built With

• javascript
• python
• twitter
• websockets