Boring nutrition site → Chaotic ingredient swap game

Role: Solo Creator (Design + Dev + Data Collection)

Context: 5-Day Passion Project (Stupid Hackathon)

Host: Punch Up

Year: 2025

Minigame: redflagfriedrice.xyz

An interactive minigame about Ultra-Processed Foods

Built solo in 5 days from real grocery data to playful education

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TL;DR

5-day solo project transforming UPF education into interactive minigame Real grocery data collected by hand, processed via AI, hooked to Google Sheet API Cheerful Brutalist design system with randomized game states Players swap suspicious ingredients to fix a toxic fried rice plate

End-to-end: research → design → development

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From Grocery Heartbreak to Game

→ Went to the supermarket trying to avoid UPFs

→ Flipped every label

→ Shot every ingredient list

→ Realized: clean eating is almost impossible

No one reads 2,000-word articles about emulsifiersxxxx!@# at 11PM How do you make people care about food labels without lecturing?

5 Days, One Person, Everything

→ Day 1-2: Real-world data collection

No public datasets

Actual grocery run

Actual photos