[Wubdidu]

For the proposal to my now wife I built a small tablet web application that copied the Game Of Life board game that we frequently played. I put her Mii of Tomodashis Life from various screenshots in as her character, sneakily stolen from her 3DS screenshots. She had to roll (rigged) dices to advance the game and each stop was an actual big life event (like us moving together, getting her degree, finishing her state exam, ...). The last stop was the cliché "Will you marry me?".

It was fun and infuriating to build it. In the end it only worked on her tablet, nowhere else, because I had scaling and coordinate issues, but quickly ran out of time. It was neat though! Her character had different facial expressions (depending on the screenshots I could find) and it really felt like an actual board game on a tablet, although obviously scripted.

She said she really didn't expect what would happen at the last stop, which still confuses me - I thought it was so obvious that it was rigged and where it would go! Really happy how it turned out for her.

As an homage, we put even more images of Tomodashis Life on the wedding invitations (you can marry another Mii in the game, which incidentally was me in her game - and her in mine, not that we used those screenshots). A friend of mine, working for Nintendo and on the game, forwarded the PDF of the invitation to the makers of the game and they even sent a message back. Just all in all an awesome little thing born out of such a simple idea.

While I'd love to, I don't want to share it because of a lot of personal information and the mentioned issues it has on "unsupported hardware".