A couple nights of playing with the twitter public timeline followed by one night of drunk-coding and *poof* I had some sort of game. I think it’s coming along alright though. Some things that are implemented:

• A normal base set of rules.
  • Points are based on scrabble score of each word + (popularity of word / 100)
  • 5 words per day
  • Can’t re-use words
• An actual design is starting to be rolled out. Not the greatest, but hey, better than my first drunken design that involved text (not html, text) followed by br’s.
• New set of rules. I parsed a huge part of speech list and put it in the db. With that I now have a “isNoun” function. We’ll be using these new rules starting 2/17. Only nouns allowed. Scoring is scrabble based word score + full popularity of word.  So a word was used 100 times, you’d get scrabble score + 100.
• And now I have a news section

Some things being worked on:

• Integrating the user authentication in to phpbb install. This will allow an integrated forum for chatting about the current round and hopefully a community will pop up in it.
• Better plugin design for word validation and scoring. (homewrecker and pgerzani are helping out there!)
• Fixing up the design/fixing bugs/fixing remaining code written while drunk

Some things planned on, but not started yet:

• SMS/email alerts for various events
  • Haven’t entered new words past X hour
  • Scores calculated
• Further plugins for mixing up the scoring
• Considering TweetWords.com for the name.
• Admin section for setting up rounds, banning cheaters, etc.

Please give feedback. Be honest. I think with enough help and enough feedback that something fun could be created out of this.