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    <title>day40 &amp;mdash; Gerrit Niezen</title>
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      <title>Making a Hide &amp; Seek mobile web app</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[In a previous post I mentioned that I would be taking part in the Stay-at-Home TH/NGS Jam today.&#xA;&#xA;I decided to build a Hide &amp; Seek game, where one person would select a  room in a virtual house to hide in, and the other person would seek them out using the NFC scanner on an Android phone. I managed to get everything working in the end, resulting in two small web apps.&#xA;&#xA;One webapp is for the person hiding, where they can select where they&#39;re hiding:&#xA;&#xA;Hiding in the dining room&#xA;&#xA;The room they select is saved to a remote database, which can be read by another web app for the seeker:&#xA;&#xA;Seeking the person hiding&#xA;&#xA;They press the Scan button to enable the NFC scanner, and then move their phone over a physical paper map of the house, embedded with NFC tags. When the scanner reads a tag for a room, it will display whether the person is hiding in that room or not.&#xA;&#xA;The code is available on GitHub.&#xA;&#xA;---&#xA;I’m publishing this as part of 100 Days To Offload. You can join in yourself by visiting https://100daystooffload.com.&#xA;&#xA;#100DaysToOffload #day40 &#xA;&#xA;iComment on this post/i&#xD;&#xA;div id=&#34;cusdis_thread&#34;/div]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In <a href="https://gerritniezen.com/getting-started-with-web-nfc">a previous post</a> I mentioned that I would be taking part in the <a href="https://thingscon.org/events/upcoming-event/stay-at-home-th-ngs-jam/">Stay-at-Home TH/NGS Jam</a> today.</p>

<p>I decided to build a Hide &amp; Seek game, where one person would select a  room in a virtual house to hide in, and the other person would seek them out using the NFC scanner on an Android phone. I managed to get everything working in the end, resulting in two small web apps.</p>

<p>One webapp is for the person hiding, where they can select where they&#39;re hiding:</p>

<p><img src="https://i.snap.as/9UOM4d7.png" alt="Hiding in the dining room"/></p>

<p>The room they select is saved to a remote database, which can be read by another web app for the seeker:</p>

<p><img src="https://i.snap.as/OWRnItE.png" alt="Seeking the person hiding"/></p>

<p>They press the <code>Scan</code> button to enable the NFC scanner, and then move their phone over a physical paper map of the house, embedded with NFC tags. When the scanner reads a tag for a room, it will display whether the person is hiding in that room or not.</p>

<p>The code is <a href="https://github.com/gniezen/smart-paper-maps">available on GitHub</a>.</p>

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