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experimental2026

Snacktrap

A cozy nocturnal heist built for Reddit's Devvit platform: a raccoon tiptoes across a dark kitchen grid toward a snack while hidden traps lurk. The room signals danger through the raccoon and lighting instead of numbers, and every board is authored by a real player, so playing is authoring.

Where wild ideas take flight and curiosity leads

Field notes

Role

Creator

Read order

Evidence first, then constraint → build → proof. Use the chapter rail to jump sections; orbit to adjacent work from the bottom of the case study.

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141 tests passing

Evidence

System surface

No public screenshot on file, generative preview stands in for the visual layer.

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Story arc

How this shipped

Where wild ideas take flight and curiosity leadsThree beats: what pressed against the work, how the stack answered, and what changed once it was live.

I · Constraint

The brief

Design a Reddit game where the community is the content engine and no board can be unfair, so every player both plays and builds the next challenge.

II · Build

The craft

Built a proximity-signal heist on Devvit: safe steps telegraph the nearest trap through the raccoon and room lighting, greed mechanics reward pushing deeper, and a server-side solver rejects any layout that would force a guess before it can publish.

III · Proof

What moved after launch

Every run ends with the player authoring the next board, watched live by a ghost of a past solver. 141 tests. Server-validated solvable layouts keep the user-generated loop fair.

Signals

◆Signals & scale

Reddit Devvit
Platform
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Tests
Play = author
Loop

Engine room

At a glance

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Tests

Inventory

Stack & signals

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