This simple, free tool turns Wordle results into cute animated houses
With so many people routinely <a href=«https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Wordle%20227%22&src=» https: www.polygon.com>putting their daily results
from the viral word-guessing game Wordleon social media, the influx of near-identical collections of green and yellow boxes has gotten a little tedious. Some users are getting more creative about celebrating their successes, turning their Wordle results into paintings, soft sculpture, or digital art. But it takes a certain amount of time, obsession, and skill to convert your Wordle score into a berry pie. Now an Estonian programmer has published a simple, easy-to-use free tool that uses 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. The Wordle-to-Townscaper tool is even simpler: After finishing a 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.
These little houses are interactive: You can click and drag to move the camera and change the angle. 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 Townscaper creations, and this tool personalizes them with little effort. You can even make up your own patterns by clicking on the parsed boxes in the tool to change their colors, then generate new houses with
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