Inspiration
I wanted to build a game that felt native to Reddit instead of simply embedding a game inside a post. Rather than asking players to grind for upgrades, every session asks a simple question: "Can you beat today's best time?"
What it does
- Daily Sprint — every day a fresh seeded course posts automatically. Everyone in the subreddit races the same pond on one leaderboard. Daily streaks (🔥) reward coming back.
- Ghost racing — your personal-best run replays as a translucent frog, so every attempt is a race against yourself.
- "👑 u/x holds 0:47.23 — beat it!" — the reigning champ is called out in the HUD of every run and on the post splash.
- Community courses (UGC) — the built-in editor lets anyone place dragonflies and flies, but you must beat your own course to publish it (Trackmania rule — every course is provably finishable). Publishing creates a new interactive post with its own leaderboard and creator credit. The game generates its own content feed.
- Instant retry — a run takes 30–90 seconds and restarting takes one tap; "one more go" is always faster than closing the post.
How we built it
- One-finger control, hand-tuned pendulum physics, procedural art (zero assets), squash/stretch juice, WebAudio synth sfx
- Type-strict, linted, mobile-first responsive canvas (RESIZE + zoom camera), works portrait & landscape
- Per-subreddit leaderboards, courses are posts, creators credited by u/name, champ callouts
- Daily seeded course + streaks + ghosts + champ-baiting + UGC feed
- Phaser 4: custom verlet-style rope constraint physics, camera zoom rig with screen-space HUD layer, procedural textures, particles, tweens
Challenges we ran into
Making ui properly work and being responsive to screen size
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Learning a new platform to develop for
What we learned
Devvit, Phaser
What's next for Lickety-Split
Improved course building and more skins
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