About the project

So, a week or so ago, I was browsing some GA's (I think they were from an event by Grogglz) and in a comment, someone said "It would be pretty cool if we had a SG Minesweeper to hide links", or something to that effect. I started learning to code a year ago and had been looking for a quick project to get my hands dirty, so my mind immediately latched on to the idea.

Well, after a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, I want to present the SG Minesweeper.

What is it and how does it work?

I recommend you read the project README - I spent a good amount of time trying to craft and hone it, but for those of you who don't want to do it, the short story is:

• If you are a giveaway creator, visit the main page, pick a difficulty, paste your secret, and generate the link. This link contains the information on your puzzle difficulty settings (board size and number of mines), as well as the encrypted secret, that should only be visible after someone beats the game
• If you received the link from a GA creator, it will take you to the game page, where a game will be created for you on the spot based on the difficulty settings chosen by the creator. Your goal is to reveal all the non-mine cells to win the game. Hit a mine and you have to restart. The position of the mines is random and changes everytime a game is created

What else do you have on the roadmap? Can I suggest a feature or a bugfix?

Quite a lot actually. I decided to release the game as soon as I felt it was playable, and leave a lot on the roadmap to keep me busy for the next few weeks while also gathering real-life feedback on how it's working (or not). Please refer to the official project roadmap before you make a suggestion, since chances are I already have it on my mind.

Feel free to suggest new features here. If you're a coder, create an issue on Github and we can take it from there.

Does it work?

I hope so. You can test by solving an easy puzzle (each attempt should take ~2 minutes) and join a GA for it. It's for Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse, L1+.

If for some reason it doesn't, let me know and I will do my best to fix it as soon as I can.

Hmmm, what about credits?

Full list here. For those who don't want to leave this page, special thanks to Carlo, RosimInc, yannbz, Grogglz, BEAUREGARDE, Vini1 and adam1224. And of course, all the people who are awesome and keep me coming back here everyday.

Is this safe for sending really important and sensitive secrets?

Heck no. This is a really, really, reaaaaaally basic implementation, and anyone with rudimentary coding skills or AI help will be able to bend my code backwards and extract the secrets in a heartbeat. That said, I hope this tool won't be abused. If you want to be truly safe, do not hide plain GA links, instead relying on SGTools

This sucks and I hate this

Please go easy on me. This is the first time I publish something like this, and my goal is only to make this community even better. Frankly, it's terrifying to hit the "Post" button, but I hope I hit all the right boxes. If you don't like it, just don't use it. I don't love Wordles but that gives me no right to shit on Yannbz or anyone that creates Wordles. So let's just be good people, how does that sound?