Nick Arcade Game Board Demo: A 3 hour React sketch.

Posted on August 2nd, 2018

Filed under: Code — Karl Olson @ 1:19 am

Remember Nick Arcade? If so, you might recall the basic game play of the show involved moving a cartoon character, Mikey, around a map, where you might reveal a prize, a trivia question, a game challenge or an event where you lose control to the other team. A friend of mine who streams old shows joked that he wanted to pick shows the same way – randomly as you moved around a map. So, while he streamed recently, I wrote up this very rough draft of the Nick Arcade board, complete with shows. Since it’s a pain to share a JSFiddle otherwise, here it is embedded.

In future, I’ll definitely add a component to populate the show list so it’s not fixed in the component (it is randomly built each load though – navigate around and see which “classic” you might get to watch,) options to load a background graphic, and maybe even an animated Mikey (well, probably not.) Still, I think I have a good basis here, and it’s a fun, small project I can probably handle in the background.

Edit: took an extra half hour the next day to get it a bit more visually polished, look at the fiddle history to see the process in action.

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