FunQuest Club: Free Games for Children and Adults

It has been a long time but my games website is finally up and running. I features four games:-

  • Tic-Tac-Toe (or as some people know it, noughts and crosses).
  • Dragon Game – the premise is that the user is faced with two caves, one has a genial person who gives the user nice and appropriate (for them) things, the other cave may contain a fierce dragon, who will eat you on sight. As you get gifts, you pick up points as well. When the dragon eventually gets you, you find out how many points you have accrued.
  • Hangman Game – you have to guess the animal, vegetable or mineral word. You have up to five wrong answers – on the sixth, the gibbet has a complete skeleton, you have lost and the game reveals the word. If you guess the word before the skeleton is entire, you are congratulated on winning.
  • Silly Sentences – the player enters “up to six names” – in fact, there is no limit to how many names you add, but six is a suggested maximum. Once the player enters all of the names that they want, they push the “Go!” button and the game creates silly sentences based on an entered name, picked at random, a verb (programmed into the game – picked at random) and a noun (again, pre-programmed into the game and picked at random) to create a sentence like “Frank hugs a bicycle” – completely bonkers!

The technical details are that it was built using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. It is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), on an Apache2 web server and authenticated with Letsencrypt SSL authentication Certification.

For those of you who would like to play with it, please click below:-

It is:-

  • Completely free to use.
  • Suitable for a children and adults alike.
  • a lot of fun – people who have played the games particularly like Hangman and I hope that I have made it quite challenging, using a mixture of common and obscure words to find in each category.

It is planned that it will have advertising in the future but I do not plan to charge for the use of the games suite.

And finally, please watch out for other output from Cullen Development …… me!

Complete Javascript course from Udemy.

I have turned into a bit of a course junkie. Here is the latest acquisition from Udemy – from the stable of Tim Buckalka’s Learn Programming Academy, led by Charles E. Brown.

This came about as an attempt to ‘deep dive’ into Javascript as a compliment to ‘HTML, CSS and Javascript’ as mentioed in my previous post. This course was very useful as it taught me some extra things and tackled Javascript from another angle – not just use in the building of websites with functionality, but also use outside of Web development through the use of NodeJS – using Node to use Javascript functionality in ‘The Terminal’ or command prompt. Very interesting and useful. Of course, it covers web development too, but not in as much detail as the book ‘HTML, CSS and Javascript’.