luke b

project detail

128ordle

a deliberately chaotic word game that pushes the wordle idea to extremes by letting players solve huge numbers of boards while keeping a social layer on top.

mar 2026react, typescript, vite, supabase, postgresql, vercel, vitestlive

what it is

a game project built around one strong gimmick: scaling a simple word game into something much more chaotic and memorable without losing the core loop that makes it fun.

what it had to do

take a joke-sized idea and make it stable enough to play for real. the hard part was keeping huge board counts, persistence, and social features from turning the whole thing into unreadable chaos.

who it's for

players who already know wordle-style games and want something faster, harder, and more shareable than the standard one-board format.

key features

  • support for solving huge numbers of boards in one session.
  • social features layered on top of the core game loop.
  • type-safe frontend and backend setup with testing in the stack.

what i built

i worked on the product idea, the implementation of the game experience, and the systems needed to support state, persistence, and the social side of the project. a lot of the challenge was making something intentionally absurd still feel usable.

result

it turned a familiar word game into something much more memorable without losing the core loop. the project is a good example of me taking a risky product idea, then doing the engineering work needed to make it playable instead of just novel.