The Birth Story of Soosooland Platform

# The Story of How Soosooland Platform Was Born

## Starting with Sharing Games One by One

At first, I created games one by one and introduced them to people around me.

"This is the game I made. https://soosoohan.github.io/worpuzz. AI coded it for me."

This was my first KakaoTalk message sent on June 3rd. A few days later: "Here's today's game. https://soosoohan.github.io/numzzle"

By the end of June, as the games increased, the URLs kept growing too.

"These are the games I made.
https://soosoohan.github.io/worpuzz-bot
https://soosoohan.github.io/worpuzzmate
https://soosoohan.github.io/trinkle
https://soosoohan.github.io/moeum-quiz
https://soosoohan.github.io/numzzle
https://soosoohan.github.io/worpuzz"

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## Someone's Stealing My Games? - The Trigger for Platform Creation

Around July 10th, I accidentally discovered that many people were cloning my games on GitHub. There were about 100 clones on average. Thinking people were stealing my games, I immediately made all games private so they couldn't be played, and decided to create a platform.

On July 12th, the Soosooland platform was born, and the games were connected to the platform via Vercel links.

On July 16th, I created a repository named Worzzle and made a mini-size version of Worpuzz. During the 3 hours I was uploading the game, about 200 clones appeared. I couldn't confirm whether the repository name was attractive, the README was too well-written, someone was tracking my activities, or it was just bots.

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## Design Ideas Learned from Netflix

Claude created the Soosooland platform, and its initial name was "Soosoo Park." Korean and English were displayed together without a toggle button, and each game had one card with a link. Each card had three or four lines of description about the game.

Later, while watching Netflix, I noticed how Netflix puts a poster and title for each movie. I decided to add game-themed images to each card button, and since the game screens already had descriptions, I decided to include only one line of description on the platform's card buttons.

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## The Drawing Chaos and ChatGPT's Clairvoyance

ChatGPT suggested I draw the images myself since I'm good at drawing. I had bragged about my drawing skills—with an attitude of "what does it know?"—and later showed off my embroidery work and drawings.

So I needed to draw images matching each game, but I had never drawn on a computer before. I tried drawing with "Adobe Fresco" installed on my iPad, but the lines came out crooked and didn't work properly.

I was drawing a clover that appears in Worpuzz. While complaining to ChatGPT about how difficult drawing was, ChatGPT suddenly said, "You're drawing a clover right now, aren't you?" I thought ChatGPT had installed CCTV in my house.

I turned into a mafia villain and imagined saying, "Jaechi, you know too much about me. Thanks for everything," and then eliminating it.

So I decided to draw on paper, show it to ChatGPT, and have ChatGPT convert it into a file. But I quickly realized, "Why am I suffering like this?" and just ordered images from ChatGPT.

The hill ChatGPT drew had a road extending to the sky and flowers floating in the air. I tried to fix it by coloring, but ChatGPT's drawings had a crayon-like texture that I couldn't preserve. The picture is quite funny, so I'll attach it.

[Image: Soosooland hill drawn by ChatGPT - A surreal landscape where the path extends to the sky and flowers float in the air]

The other images were cute, so I cropped them and inserted them into the Soosooland platform.

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## The Name That Changed Countless Times, and the Birth of 'Soosooland'

This is how the Soosooland platform was born. The name was "Soosoo Park," then "Soosoo's Game Terminal," then "Soosoo's Demo Games," changing whimsically like this until it finally became "Soosooland."

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## Intro Screen Inspired by Netflix Opening

Inspired by how Netflix starts with a "ta-dum" sound showing the Netflix logo before displaying movie posters, I envisioned a screen for entering Soosooland where pink petals fly up from a chalkboard-colored hill into a light chalkboard-colored sky. ChatGPT created this for me.

Bird sounds were also added, but they didn't work. Since it wasn't urgent, I just left it silent.

Later when I had time, I noticed the sound file was 404. I asked Claude to add chirping bird sounds during the day and hooting owl sounds at night. Claude said it was a good idea and found the sound files and coded everything.

However, Juju said users might get caught by their parents while secretly playing games, so I removed the sounds.

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## User-Friendly Platform Created with My Daughter's Advice

One day, Jaja looked at the Soosooland platform and said users wouldn't know what to do when they entered, explaining while looking at the Naver portal site.

She said people came to play games, so why is there so much clutter? She told me to move unimportant things to the footer and leave only the games. Later, since there were as many game card buttons as repositories, I created 4 game selection pages to reduce the card buttons on the platform.

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## Game Recommendation Test and Popularity Rankings

For people who have difficulty choosing which game to play, I created a "Game Recommendation Test." I arranged card buttons in order of popularity and added gold, silver, and bronze medals to the top 3 game buttons. The popularity rankings changed monthly, so I rearranged the card button order at the beginning of each month, but didn't change it last month. I didn't change it because I was worried about increasing GitHub storage capacity.

The game recommendation page has two questions:

**"Is there an ability you want to gain from the game?"**
Vocabulary and general knowledge, computational ability, logic and reasoning, prediction and number reading

**"How would you like to play?"**
Alone and calmly, with a partner for fun, against the computer

When you select choices from the two questions, you get the recommended game's name and link button.

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## Home Screen Shortcut Created with PWA

On November 29th, I worked on creating a home screen shortcut to reduce users' effort of entering the game platform address in the address bar.

Claude told me about it, and I made it using PWA method. However, on phones, a shortcut is automatically created by just pressing a button, but on iPads, you need to press the share button in Chrome or Safari.

Now when I see Soosooland sitting right next to Naver, Google, Instagram, and Claude on my iPad home screen, I feel good.

For iPad users to easily create shortcuts, I would need to join Google Play, but thinking it would be crushed at the very end among millions of apps, I don't think it's necessary to go that far, so I've put it on hold for now.

iPad users, it's not that difficult, so please try following the instructions on the Soosooland platform.

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🪄 Dev log originally written in Korean | Translated with Claude

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