Awesome Type - Devlog #1

Last week my friend as a software engineer shows me how he can use Mac OS's terminal. He feel like a genius hacker from a movie. That's inspired me to build a tiny software that allow me to act cool like that. Plus I am custom keyboard lover. So this software's look should be customizable to match my current keyboard theme.

One night passed.. I got a prototype to play with. At first I named it "HandsomeWare" but it sounds little scary. Then I show the prototype to my wife and she said "AWESOME!". So I renamed it to "Awesome Type" and can't wait to show this to custom keyboard lovers!!

I shared the prototype to keyboard community on reddit and it got a nice love from community. So I rush to fix all critical bug and export to HTML5 version and upload to itch.io

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Prototype breakdown:

I use Godot - an opensource game engine to make Awesome Type. While prototyping, I know I will need a lot of random text. So I create my own randomizer. Which can generate code, random set of number and character, random IP address, random English word, random people photo, random map.

The random text and number generator are easy even for a noob like me. But others is far far away from my knowledge so I use data from other source and let my randomizer randomly load them on runtime.

- I grab random English words from googled "common english words"
- Generate photos from This Person Does Not Exist - Random Face Generator (this-person-does-not-exist.com)
- Generate maps from City Generator by ProbableTrain (itch.io)

After combine everything together. I spice it up a bit by apply some shaders from https://godotshaders.com/ 

Everything is done in only a night. Awesome Type is so pointless and stupid. But I love it lol.

After play it for awhile my fingers hurt. So I add "Speed Multiplier" and "Autopilot Mode" that keep me awesome while resting my finger.

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Reddit community give me a lot of cool idea which I'm not sure I will have time for them all. And I just learned from community that they are a lot of website that can do something similar or better then Awesome Type (Hacker Typer, GEEKTyper.com - Hacking Simulator) so I may gear the development toward "typing test" or maybe some form of game. I will return to experiment with each option when I have time. In a while I just wish someone make a cool keyboard sound test video with Awesome Typing that would be awesomeee :)