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After we submitted the game for the game jam, we had another week until the demo in front of the judges. We used this time to design and manufacture a custom case for the Picopad, matching the aesthetic and controls of the game.

ŠPONGIA 2023: Hardware

29 November 2023

My first idea was to use a fantasy console and run it on a small handheld device. But in the end, I used a Raspberry Pi Pico to run the game directly.

This year I took part in the ŠPONGIA game jam, and we wanted to do something special - a custom handheld console.

Let's say that we have a React element that we would like to save as a PDF document or an image. In order to do that, we can use Puppeteer, which uses a headless instance of the Chromium browser and is able to generate PDFs and images.

Let's say your React app presents the user with a task that has a time limit. The user must submit the task before the time runs out. The simple solution would be to call `setTimeout` at the start of the task. However, this is not a good solution.

The Gatsby blog starter uses the dangerouslySetInnerHTML prop to render HTML for blog posts written in Markdown. While this works, there is a better solution.

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