Growing up, my family loved playing Jamb, a super addictive dice game similar to Yahtzee that’s popular in the former Yugoslavia. Back in 2003, my dad coded his own version in Visual Basic 6, which he called Yumbee. Watching him build that game is one of the main reasons I got deeper into coding in high school.

While visiting for the holidays, we found the original CD and decided it would be fun to recreate it for the modern era. With my dad serving as Product Manager and my mom as Lead QA, we rebuilt his original logic for the web, using AI to speedrun the development in between holiday gatherings. It works on mobile, supports multiplayer and AI opponents, and there’s a tutorial for those who’ve never played.