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Inspiration

The inspiration was the Devpost post itself. I hadn't heard of Devvit previously, but am one to doomscroll reddit from the shadows and quietly upvote the best of memes and shower thoughts. Reading through the description, I heard word games and puzzle and the thought that came to mind that actually seemed fun and worth pursuing was a word association game, so that's what has been built.

What it does

"Link or else" is a word association game. There are a set number of rounds, and multiple words within each round. A word is shown for a set amount of time and you can choose to claim that word for a period of time. After all words are shown, if you haven't claimed any, you are assigned the last word of the round automatically. Your goal is to create a link between as many words as possible.

How we built it

I built it in Visual Studio with at least some initial help from the reddit/devvit ai.

Challenges we ran into

I've been sick for the entirety of my participation in the contest, and it's hard to code without brain cells. The game worked pretty easily very quickly for a single player, but ever since making it work for multiple players, everything else has been breaking pretty incessantly from then on. Integrating multiplayer functionality was by far the hardest challenge.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I think the concept of the game is inherently fun, and I was more or less able to implement it as someone new to devvit, so I'm proud of that. I don't think the game is quite perfect but it's good and it's fun, so it's a solid starting place.

What we learned

I started with no knowledge of devvit. I've done other programming, but not the seemingly most relevant types of programming like typescript so

What's next for Link or else

The game needs more polish, but I think the biggest thing is once people begin playing the game feedback will roll in. Whether that's bugfix requests, logical issues, or features they'd like to see, it's when users begin playing the game that what's next will really get defined.

Built With

• code
• devvit
• studio
• visual