WebDev Challenge - S2E2

What could you create if you had 30 minutes to plan and 4 hours to build? Me, Lane Wagner , Sarah Shook , Nikki Meyers, Shashi Lo , and Nick Taylor took on the Web Dev Challenge to find out. They picked the Napoleon Dynamite thumbnail for Lane and I 🤣 The Challenge # We lucked out and got a rad one. Single player, multiplayer, cooperative, competitive, or something totally different — your challenge is to come up with something fun that is played across at least two devices . Temporal ’s workflow tools will allow you to manage sending information between devices dependably. Lane and I def leaned into the "fun" portion of the challenge. We chose to try a game that uses the camera video stream API to feed faces to Media Pipe (locally running a face detection machine learning model) to flap a bird's wings in a flappybird-like game. A Temporal workflow will capture the game round and let us see all the player moves. At least that's what we planned on… The Teams # These were the lovely folks I got to spend 4 hours with: Sarah Shook && Nikki Meyers Shashi Lo && Nick Taylor Lane Wagner && I The Tools # Temporal was pretty cool, but as you'll see in the video… we um, didn't figure that out til a bit later. I did get the pleasure to use a BenQ RD280U tho. The 4k 3:2 matte UHD display was really nice. They say it's made for coding, and I see what they mean. Plus, HDR content is awesome, and I could capture high quality UI captures and place lots of windows around. I got to take one home and try it out. It's light years ahead of the one I had before. The arm is super strong. There's tons of charging ports. It's a really great product. 3D Bird # Here's that 3D bird Codepen that's featured in the episode. See the Pen by Adam Argyle ( @argyleink ) on CodePen . The Results # There were no winners or losers! We all had a blast; I'm lookin forward to seein the YouTube comments , maybe a 3D bird joke or two.