This simple online script turns Wordle results into cute animated houses

So many people regularly putting their daily resultsFrom the word-guessing viral game Wordle The influx of nearly identical green and yellow boxes on social media has made it a lot more tedious. Some people are being more creative in how they celebrate their achievements, such as turning their Wordle These results are into paintings, soft sculptureYou can also call it: digital art. However, it requires a lot of skill, obsessiveness, time and patience. convert your Wordle score into a berry pie. An Estonian programmer has created a free, simple-to-use tool. Wordle’s own social-media function to convert play results into beautiful little animated houses via a city-design program called Townscaper.

Townscaper, which the developer describes on Steam as “‘more of a toy than a game,” lets users build elaborate fantasy villages through a simple point-and-click interface. You can download the The Wordle-to-TownscaperEven easier: Wordle game, click the “Share” button to automatically load your results into your clipboard, then paste them into the “tweet contents” box on the Wordle-to-Townscaper page, click “parse” to interpret them, and “generate” for a link to follow to the results.

Image via Townscaper, Polygon: Tarno Annus

The interactive houses can be manipulated by clicking and dragging the mouse. They’re also gently animated, with ripples in the water and resident birds that, over time, will move from one roof to another. There’s a meditative calmness to TownscaperThis tool allows you to personalize your creations. Click on any of the boxes to create your own pattern.

Tarmo Annus (developer) goes under @Tarmo888 TwitterTumblr tells Polygon that he had the idea after he saw the movie Townscaper dev Oskar Stålberg joking onlineYou might be able to request this type of tool. Wordle. Tarmo says he found an existing Github library that would convert Javascript objects, or JSONs — in this case, Wordle’s green-and-yellow boxes — to a format that TownscaperAccept. “Converting the objects to [that] string was the most difficult part, and luckily, it was already solved,” he says.

There were many options available to him. parse Wordle’s grey or black boxes in different ways depending on user input — you can check boxes to fill in empty spaces, or ground spaces, so you don’t wind up with a house on stilts, in case that offends your sensibilities for some reason.

Tarmo does think it’s possible that Wordle being sold to The New York Times will end people’s easy access to and interest in the game. He says he doesn’t blame Wordle Josh Wardle was the one who sold the project off. But he thinks it will be beneficial to others. Times could kill users’ interest in the game if the company changes access to it or how it operates. He says that as long as the functionality is identical, his tool will continue to function. If the…” Times Does it change radically? Wordle Il invites others programmers and other developers to try the tool. “If somebody decides to make Wordle [with] 6-letter words and 7 attempts, my tool can be easily modified,” he tells Polygon. “It’s open-source, just like the library I used.” The code can be found on Github.