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PODIUM PRO IS FINISHED!
Exactly 8,507 lines of code were used to create Podium Pro. The awards and slideshow feature have been added, and it is now live on my website! You can also find it in the Summer of Making demo link. I hope that you will use it for your event -- let me know how it goes! And please do raise issues and bugs for me to fix, or make Podium Pro better in its entirety. It was coded with mostly raw HTML/CS/JSS.

Please watch the devlog video I attached -- it goes over every feature of Podium Pro!

This was my first time working with REST APIs, email systems, and also my first time making something that was actually a viable product and tool.

The homepage, attendee dashboard, and organizer dashboard are nearly done! Over 6,250 lines of code have been used to make Podium Pro, and we haven't even gotten to the voting process or awards slideshow yet!

Many, many features have been added, including:
- Ability to join hackathon team with a project code or direct addition from the team manager
- Separate account system for organizers so that they can organize multiple events
- Project status auto-updates every 10 seconds
- Active ability to open and close shipping and voting by the organizer
- Ability to set your own team name
- Event hierarchy of permissions (creator > lead organizer > organizer > attendee)
- Voting also includes specific judging criteria
- Search projects by name, project manager, or team members
- Organizers can edit attendees' projects and manage them
- Intuitive approve/reject system for organizers to review shipped projects
- Organizers can leave notes for attendees to see live on their project page
- And much more!

I am getting close to finishing the base project. The last thing to do is make the voting system and the awards slideshow!

First devlog for Podium Pro! I spent today creating the home menu, backend, database and server frameworks, and login/signup flow. This was my first time working with REST APIs, and they are way easier than I thought! Event codes now work (they are stored in a MongoDB Atlas database), and the magic email verification system works thanks to Brevo! I used JSONWebToken to create the session token system to validate users. Tomorrow, I will create the actual project upload flow and start on the organizer dashboard. There will eventually be the voting feature and awards slideshow that I will be making over the next few days!

I updated the confetti and music in the Bonus Round to be absolutely EPIC!!! It might cause your computer to lag LMAO. Also, the bonus round puzzles now come from a separate set of around 400 puzzles. These ones contain more of the uncommon letters, so take that as you will! It's like the real Bonus Round in Wheel of Fortune -- sometimes they put stuff like X, Q, and J in the puzzle so people don't solve it. I'm sure you can though!

Another huge update after a day of grinding!
- Super cool particle effects and puzzle board border with gradients, just like the real show!
- New Bonus Round mode has been added! Get the letters RSTLNE, pick three letters and a consonant, and solve in 10 seconds!
- New puzzles bringing the total to over 1000!

Huge updates since my last devlog! I made a Toss-Up mode. In the Toss-Up mode, letters pop up randomly every second until you buzz, after which you solve a puzzle and earn points. It's a lot of fun! I also added lots of animations that make the entire game super smooth.

I spent the day getting the Wheel of Fortune game's initial concept working! Now, you can spin the wheel, call consonants and vowels, land on Bankrupt and Wild Card wedges, solve the puzzle, and play again after you solved it. I also created a JSON file of over 300 new puzzles that I used Gemini to help generate (the puzzles are actually super well made!) In the immediate future I will try to add art to the project (nightlife pictures in the background like the real show or a more beautiful puzzle board). Sometime later, I want to add a Toss-Up Challenge and a 1v1v1 online/bot game of Wheel of Fortune.