makanshenme

year
2024
context
buggy.tools
tags
web · game

tldr

turns your dinner options into physics bodies that fight it out until one survives

can’t decide what to eat? shake your phone, let physics pick.

open the app →

the pitch

“a chaotic decision maker, for when you just can’t choose.” makanshenme exists because “where should we eat” is a genuinely hard question when everyone in the group chat has an opinion and nobody wants to be the one who picks. type in the actual contenders, or just run with the placeholder (“pizza, laksa, crickets, neighbours cat…”) and shake.

shaking the phone at a hawker centre, in front of a seremban beef noodles stall laughing while shaking the phone on a bus shaking the phone on a bus, the handset blurred with the motion

how it decides

every option becomes a physics body dropped into a matter-js arena. shake the phone, or mash the button on desktop, and the bodies collide and bounce off the walls until exactly one survives. confetti confirms the winner.

long exposure: the screen smears into light trails as the phone is shaken the physics bodies streaking across the screen mid-shake the shake as pure light: the phone gone, only the arc it drew

// the app makes decisions faster than i do on a good day, and it doesn’t even sulk about it.