Updated 2025-05-24:

Unfortunately beloved Glitch.com is closing down so I'm rescuing little code projects of old. An evolution of one of the projects was linked to below so I've tidied the text and added the story here.

Original 2018-08-02: I’ve been experimenting using Glitch.com recently - it’s an amazingly powerful tool hidden in a humorous skin. Like Heroku and similar tools, sites/apps get spun up without you needing to know anything about the infrastructure stuff that’s going on in the background - the bit that makes Glitch special is that you can remix other people’s code really easily, and again, spin it up quickly with it’s own subdomain. Not knowing what project to start with I made another interactive story - this time as a little bit of fun for Ruth’s birthday. Happy birthday Ruth!

(You can read my past story experiments here and here and there's something WAAAY more exciting in the works at the moment!)

Let me know if you have a play around!

Completed Christmas 2020

Wherever Kizzy goes she has a card up her sleeve.

Today is no different.

She sets forth from her flat with a need for cake.

The world outside is strange.

Anxiously, she dons her mask and enters the supermarket.

It's been a while, but once she's inside it feels... normal.

She finds her ingredients.

As she reaches for the final item a cheeky squirrel snatches the last bag.

They lock eyes.

Kizzy: "I saw it first!"

Glitch: "I got it first!"

Kizzy: "How do we resolve this?"

Glitch: "I suggest a duel to the death!"

Crestfallen Kizzy replies: "Oh, I really needed it for cake. Perhaps there's a compromise? Do you like cake?"

Glitch ponders the question...