Redeal Roguelike is Hackathon-Ready!
We are thrilled to submit Redeal to the Reddit Hackathon! Redeal is a fully-featured, poker-inspired deckbuilding roguelike designed to run natively inside Reddit feeds using the Devvit platform.
Here is a log of what has been built and polished for this launch:
Key Features Implemented:
- 150+ Synergistic Jokers & Card Customizations: Build crazy point engines with card modifications (Glass, Lucky, Foil, Polychrome) and seals.
- Interactive Community Challenge Builder: Design custom deck rules, starting consumables, custom jokers, and money multipliers. Publishing a challenge automatically creates a flared post on the subreddit.
- Reddit Comment Leaderboards: Play scores are validated on the server and automatically edited into a stickied leaderboard comment under each post in real-time.
- Daily Rewards Calendar & Streaks: Claim points daily, build consecutive win streaks, and watch the next-reward timer tick down.
- Subreddit Sidebar widgets: Automatically syncs community rules, sets up a text navigation panel, and maintains a clickable challenge calendar.
Tech Stack and Architecture Snippet:
We used tRPC v11 mounted over Hono for end-to-end type-safe client-server communication. By constructing a custom React-based board instead of importing a heavy game framework, we kept the bundle size extremely light, allowing the inline splash view to load instantly in the feed.
Here is a look at the RunState definition schema that gets serialized and saved to Redis on every player action:
export type RunState = {
id: string;
userId: string;
postId: string;
seed: string;
deckType: DeckType;
stakeLevel: StakeLevel;
phase: Phase;
ante: number;
blindIndex: number; // 0: Small, 1: Big, 2: Boss
score: number;
targetScore: number;
handsRemaining: number;
discardsRemaining: number;
money: number;
deck: GameCard[];
hand: GameCard[];
jokers: JokerInstance[];
consumables: ConsumableInstance[];
handLevels: Record<HandType, number>;
};
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