ho boy…

I’ve wanted to make a Discord Activity basically since the feature began being teased… so, no better time than the present, right? I saw some guys playing Jeopardy the other night and I realized that I feel like the online ways of playing Jeopardy are kinda… uh, bad? I thought I should fix that.

I’ve been getting a lot more comfortable with frontend development recently (I’m normally more comfy with backend stuff!), so now this is really going to test my ability to handle FULL STACK development.
With that said, I’ve been playing around since last night and I have a working setup with (stable) communication with the Discord client via the SDK. (hooray!) Currently, it just shows the name and avatar of connected players.

don’t you love React?

Me too! Unfortunately, I am lying.
I’m trying Vue.js for the first time for this project. There is a LOT that I’m planning that is very new to me for this project. I expect to need Redis, Socket.IO, and (of course) the Discord activities SDK, none of which I’ve ever used. So, here we go?

the name. dude. what. why

I didn’t originally have a name for this (the README still remains “Untitled Jeopardy Clone” for now), so I was using the name “Leopardy” as a placeholder. Someone recommened me to switch to LARPARDY.
I couldn’t say no. I wish I did.

…anyways, next up is actually making some sort of game state work. I’m going to start working on the backend!