Hintensity

Inspiration

We like board games and we like codenames. After looking at the Devvit showcase, we were particularly inspired by the asynchronous nature of the Pixelary demo and wanted to contribute a similar Reddit game that was more wordplay-based.

What it does

Similar to Codenames, users can either submit clues for a randomly generated word board, or guess clues that have been submitted by other users. Something interesting we added was not only a leaderboard for solvers of each clue, but a leaderboard with metrics for how good the clues were - this was based on a meta-average of the user scores on all of your clues.

How we built it

Devvit

Challenges we ran into

At time of submission, Devvit has a feature where any calls to the redis server returns an error, which stalled our development for a long time since it was unclear why the errors were made. Luckily we were able to consult the developer community on Discord who identified it as a bug.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The leaderboards (both for clue givers and solvers). We feel like this increases excitement for online wordplay games, which can be often feel isolating.