Inspired by a classic puzzle game (which I had a physical copy of as a kid), Block Shuffle is the colorful modern take on it, powered by the minds of reddit. Compete with your fellow shufflers in beating tough levels or create them yourself for others to try, with Block Shuffle, you can enjoy a never ending stream of puzzles that are easy to learn, but hard to master!
Block Shuffle lets players solve and create sliding block puzzles right in their Reddit feed. The game features:
- 🚗 Interactive sliding blocks of different sizes and colors;
- 🎯 Short & Goal-oriented gameplay with varying difficulty levels;
- 🏆 Competitive leaderboards for each puzzle;
- 🔨 Custom puzzle creation tools;
- 📊 Move tracking and solution sharing via Reddit comments!
 Solve puzzles |
 Create puzzles |
- Click blocks to move them left/right or up/down;
- Clear the path for the red block;
- Get the red block to the exit on the right;
- Try to solve it in as few moves as possible!
Built with:
- Devvit Custom Post Type;
- TypeScript/JavaScript;
- HTML5/CSS3;
- Redis for leaderboard storage.
I am a "Pythonista" (as per reddit's documentation), so besides the obvious technical challenges, it was my first time finding out about the reddit apps and their capabilities. I am happy how everything turned out, and sad that I generated a puzzle I can't beat, even though I know it is possible!
- 🎨 App uses webview, so next thing on the list is better mobile support - as of now, not all features I used are available on mobile;
- 🌟 Advanced puzzle validation system to avoid impossible puzzles being created;
- 🏆 Global ranking system; - something to make people return :)
- 🎲 Daily challenge puzzles.