About

GuessThatAnime is heavily inspired by GuessTheGame by Sam Stiles which in turn was inspired by Framed and the format set out by Wordle and its many clones.

GuessThatAnime is built by John Noel and the code for it will (eventually) be available on GitHub.

Tech stack

• PHP 8.1
• Symfony 6.x
• Postgres 15
• Meilisearch
• TypeScript
• Preact 11.x
• Algolia autocomplete

Pages are compiled statically and guesses are stored client-side with IndexedDb.

Content

• Anime titles are from AniDB's regular export
• MyAnimeList data is pulled from their API
• Screenshots are generated from the best sources I have available and used under fair use

Todo

Current todo list includes (but is not limited to):

• Better autocomplete - I know it's currently a bit shonky, maybe look at Sonic or try and tune Meilisearch better
• Smaller frontend bundle size - currently just over 150kb which is far too big for the functionality
• Statistics - see which anime are easily guessed, generate a fancy page of hit rates
• MyAnimeList integration - login and indicate if you've seen the anime you're guessing
• Suggestion form - if anyone wants to suggest their own anime, probably suggest using imgur for the six images