Halmaten

Problem

Most cognitive focus tests look like sterile foreign lab tasks that students quickly lose interest in. The challenge was to design an authentic Kurdish game brand ('Halmaten') rooted in familiar cultural games like 'Klaw Klawen', then run it as a supervised in-person student competition—which meant tightening the difficulty so scores didn't cluster near the maximum, and building accurate mathematical scoring to rank 61 students and pick a winner fairly.

What I built

• Crafted the warm cream-and-burgundy Kurdish brand identity, RTL typography, and custom visual assets featuring traditional Kurdish skullcaps ('Klaw') and marbles ('Halmat').
• Built 10 interactive cognitive games—including a digital 'Klaw Klawen' shell game tracking 5 skullcaps across 7 swaps over 6 progressive steps—managed on the client with Zustand.
• Engineered the Supabase backend with server-side score recomputation, accuracy percentage tracking, and z-score normalization powering the live Top-3 podium and general leaderboard ('ڕیزبەندی گشتی').
• Designed a name-plus-participant-code sign-in on Supabase Auth so students in the supervised session could enter without email or password, while keeping one student from signing in as another.