Submission #7408: p0008874's GB Wordle in 00:04.03

This shortest and easy one. (For April Fools day)

ROM can be Download here. https://nezza.github.io/gbwordle/roms.html

Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle, and owned and published by The New York Times Company since 2022. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for each guess in the form of colored tiles indicating when letters match or occupy the correct position. The mechanics are nearly identical to the 1955 pen-and-paper game Jotto and the television game show franchise Lingo. Wordle has a single daily solution, with all players attempting to guess the same word.

This is Gameboy version by stacksmashing (The guy who made Gameboy rom about Crypto Mining)

The word can be found on VRAM 013B

Without doing anything, The word is EMPTY

Do something, Word Appeared.

Source code can be founded here. https://github.com/stacksmashing/gb-wordle

SAMSARA: ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
EFFORTS: ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
TOILETS: ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
PORKING: ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
HUMPING: ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
JUDGING: 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Samsara: Ah, my favorite category of run, the ones where in the time I've spent thinking about how to handle them, I could have watched them literally thousands of times over. Tens of thousands if you remove the BIOS splash! I've ended up coming to a bit of a rough conclusion on this one, and it's all about game choice. I will say in advance that I've put in a request to add a new submission status to the site, one that more accurately describes how we're treating runs like this one, but it could be a while before that's implemented and we're still swamped with months old submissions that need to be processed, so I'm kinda forced to keep using rejected for now.

Anyway, site stuff aside, where I think this game falls short is mainly in notability. Yes, Wordle itself is extremely popular and notable, but this is just a homebrew GB version of it. Similarly to last year's barrage of Tic Tac and finally Toe submissions, the lack of notability is in the actual nature of the game. It's too simple of a concept. It allows your mom to pick it up, play it, and send you her results via text while telling you about how much success she's had starting with AUDIO lately. The current rules state that unofficial games need to meet a quality standard, and a clone of a word game based off of a concept that's been around for decades isn't something that really meets that quality standard.

For now, I'll be deferring this. I could see a change or two to notability in the future, seeing as I'm not the biggest fan of the rule, but for now I just need to keep things moving.