🧪 EXP. 005 PENDING REVIEW

Droidsmith

A flip-card study depot and randomized trivia game for every named droid in Star Wars canon.

Status: not live, not failed — pending review. The game works end to end. It's not shipped because I haven't settled a copyright question and, honestly, it looks a little silly without it.

Flashcard back with droid details — Card flipped

What it is

Study-by-chapter flashcards covering ~60 named droids — every trilogy, the anthology films, the animated shows, the live-action Mando-era shows, and a "Legacy & Parks" chapter for the Star Tours / Galaxy's Edge droids. Each card flips to show first appearance, function, a droid "class," famous and alternate versions, and a trivia note. There's a randomized trivia mode on top, scored arcade-style with rank tiers, Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin-style.

Why it's not live

Two reasons, and they're related.

Copyright. I don't have a clean answer on whether droid photos/official art can go on the cards. Fan wikis run on their own fair-use footing; I don't want to assume the same latitude applies here without actually working it out first. Until I do, the cards use original vector silhouettes instead of real images.
It looks silly without them. A droid trivia game where you can't actually see the droids is a weird product. The placeholder art is fine for playtesting, not fine as the shipped thing.

Options on the table: license or commission original art per droid, find a defensible fair-use path for a small set of reference thumbnails, or just ship it card-back-first (data and trivia are the actual value) and treat the art as a later pass. No decision yet — that's why this sits at Pending Review instead of Live.

What's already working

Chapter checkboxes, flip-card study mode, shuffle, an auto-generated trivia engine (era / class / claim-to-fame / famous-moment questions with real distractors), scoring with streaks, and six rank tiers from "Bantha Fodder" to "Grand Master Droidsmith." The data itself — first appearances, functions, variants, trivia — is the part I'm most confident shipping as-is.