Beautiful Code

2023 Gamification
Materna Information & Communications SE
via Meiré und Meiré

Task

How can we design a platform so that the hiring process for an IT company instantly becomes more interesting?

Approach

Materna Information & Communications SE is a worldwide leading IT provider and in constant search of new talent and employees. To make this process more fun and interesting we came up with the idea of creating a coding challenge.

Outcome & Credits

We built a four level gamified coding challenge. Each level consists of a few lines of code with errors and riddles to solve. The puzzles are visualised by a live ASCII generator and react to the user’s input.

Find the live code challenge here

Together with Tim Rodenbröker and Nahuel Gerth

Photography and texts by Nahuel Gerth

Solution

Nuxt 3 full-stack app (Vue frontend + Nuxt server APIs), TypeScript, Pinia state, CodeMirror integrations

p5.js interactive content + GLSL

This project provided a valuable and distinctive opportunity to integrate creative coding within a practical web-based environment. It enabled the development of an engaging, interactive platform for coding enthusiasts while effectively highlighting Materna’s commitment to innovation and talent acquisition.

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