Small things I built to understand something — games, tools, and machines, most rooted in Nigerian and diaspora culture. Nothing to install. Open one.
Yorùbá, Igbo and Hausa culture as playable software — divination, mancala, tone, cloth, praise poetry, and the everyday machinery of diaspora life.
Two West African mancala traditions in one: Ayò (Yorùbá, 6 pits) and Isahi (Igbo, 4 pits). Pick your variant, play the AI.
cd mancala && bun install && bun run devThe most sophisticated pre-modern divination system — and it is 8-bit binary. Cast the 16 principal odù.
cd ifa-oracle && bun install && bun run devType a Yorùbá sentence, hear the jùjú guitar line — because the tones ARE the melody.
cd yoruba-melody && bun install && bun run devType a Yorùbá sentence and hear the dùndún say it — decode preloaded phrases by ear.
cd talking-drum && bun install && bun run devYorùbá indigo cloth generator — six procedural Adire motif families, option-aware sharing, PNG export.
cd adire && bun install && bun run devCoordinate Nigerian event fabric — members, measurements, payments, one-click tailor sheet.
cd aso-ebi && bun install && bun run devIgbo and Yoruba counting side by side — subtractive logic, vigesimal bases, and the cultural arithmetic built into each language.
cd numbers && bun install && bun run devTrain your ear on Hausa ejective and implosive consonants — waveform reveal on misses.
cd hausa-consonants && bun install && bun run devRotating savings club tracker — contributions, rotation calendar, reliability scores.
cd ajo-esusu && bun install && bun run devRecord Yorùbá praise poetry as designed cultural-document artifacts before it is gone.
cd oriki-recorder && bun install && bun run devTurn-based bride-price negotiation across three traditions — aunties, jokes, and elder discounts.
cd bride-price && bun install && bun run devGroup sixteen Yorùbá words into four hidden categories — orishas, foods, greetings, drums and more. A daily puzzle with streaks and a shareable grid.
cd connections && bun install && bun run devGuess Who, Nigerian-style. Pick a deck — states, foods, orishas — then ask yes/no trait questions to deduce the hidden card before the AI deduces yours.
cd tani && bun install && bun run devCodenames, pass-and-play. Two spymasters give one-word clues from a Nigerian-themed board; their teams race to find their agents without hitting the assassin. One device, no accounts.
cd asiri && bun install && bun run devA daily Yorùbá tone puzzle. Each word is shown without its marks — guess the high, mid or low tone of every syllable in six tries. Streaks and a shareable grid.
cd tone-wordle && bun install && bun run devThe first build — general-purpose apps and toys that set the pattern everything after followed.
Turn-based canvas roguelike: procedural dungeon, FOV, permadeath.
cd roguelike && bun install && bun run devSeed-driven procedural art with shareable URLs and PNG export.
cd generative-art && bun install && bun run devThis launcher — every sibling project, one click or one command away.
cd arcade && bun install && bun run dev