Typewar: A Case Study
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A case study of Typewar, a font-guessing game built with Django and Pinax that hit rapid early traffic. Covers design-to-prototype workflow, game mechanics (points, levels, badges, streaks, leaderboards, Bayesian stats), technical implementation details like glyph generation with PIL, anti-cheat measures, Twitter integration, migrating anonymous user data on signup, activity streams, performance and database optimizations, task queuing, deployment, and development of an API for an iPhone client, plus outreach and open-source Django apps extracted from the project.
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