DEV Community

Hanzla Baig
Hanzla Baig

Posted on

👁️‍🗨️ The Haunting of AquaScript: Movies Challenge Has Begun...

If You Dare, Enter the Code Realm...

There’s a whisper in the codebase.
An echo in the console.
A shadowy API waiting to be unleashed.
And a frontend challenge... not for the faint of heart.

This isn’t just a competition.
It’s a haunted call to developers across the globe.
Your mission: Build a Movies Website so good, it’s terrifying.
So immersive, it feels alive.
So responsive, it shapeshifts like a ghost in your screen.


☠️ The Curse Begins...

Long ago, in the depths of the AquaScript servers, two ancient APIs were locked away:

  • 📼 Movies Data API
  • 🩸 Movies+ Data API

These aren’t ordinary endpoints.
They feed you cursed movie metadata, eerie posters, and trailers that refuse to buffer unless summoned with clean code.

Now, the gates have opened again...
And they’ve chosen you as the next developer to unleash them.


🕷️ The Forbidden Instructions:

To survive the curse and win the prize, follow these rules:

  • Use ANY tech stack you dare: React, Tailwind, Vanilla JS, Bootstrap, Svelte, Next.js, Astro — whatever your dark heart desires.
  • The design must be fully responsive across all screen sizes – or risk vanishing into the void.
  • Use only AquaScript’s APIs – the ghosts won't tolerate foreign data.
  • Keep your code clean… or it will haunt you.
  • No AI. This realm only obeys the touch of human hands.

🧟‍♂️ What Awaits in the Shadows (Prizes):

🥇 1st Prize – The Soul of the Hackathon:

  • Your own Custom Domain — claim your name before the shadows do
  • Featured on AquaScript Platform – every dev will hear your tale
  • 10 Pro Templates, cursed with clean UI
  • Customized Portfolio forged in the underworld
  • Entry in the Time Capsule of Legends
  • A chance to host your own mini-workshop
  • A Dev Boost Pack filled with rare treasures
  • The Official Champion Badge (PNG + HTML Embed)

🥈 2nd Prize – The Mark of the Phantom:

  • Featured on AquaScript
  • Templates, Portfolio, Time Capsule, Dev Boost, Badge

🥉 3rd Prize – The Ghost’s Echo:

  • The same... but now your story becomes folklore.

🧛 The API That Hungers

Every request to the AquaScript API comes with a shiver.
Every JSON response… is a message from the void.

Use it to create:

  • Creepy grids of horror movies
  • Dark UI themes that glow in the night
  • Hover effects that flicker like candlelight
  • Skeleton screens that actually look like skeletons 🦴

You hold the power.
Now… conjure the frontend nightmare the web deserves.


☠️ You’ve Been Summoned.

The AquaScript Movies Challenge is officially LIVE.
There is no going back.
Once you start coding… the ghost of your masterpiece will haunt the web forever.

Only the most fearless devs will survive… and rise as Champions.

🌐 Join the realm at AquaScript.xyz

Top comments (1)

Collapse
 
nathan_tarbert profile image
Nathan Tarbert

This is a crazy effective way to frame it, honestly got me pumped