Reddit Games
Year: 2023-2024
Roles: Product Manager, Technical Lead, UX Engineer
Studio Lead: Chloe Ward
Producer: Rohaina Hassan
Full Stack Developer: James Lee
Front End Developer: Stacy Yuan
UX & Creative: Natasha Dzhola
Illustrator: Wei Chen
Creative: Connie Van
Animation: Mac Wojcik
Year: 2023-2024
Roles: Product Manager, Technical Lead, UX Engineer
Studio Lead: Chloe Ward
Producer: Rohaina Hassan
Full Stack Developer: James Lee
Front End Developer: Stacy Yuan
UX & Creative: Natasha Dzhola
Illustrator: Wei Chen
Creative: Connie Van
Animation: Mac Wojcik
Feed Me is a multi-player competitive pet growing game built on Reddit’s Developer Platform, built by Reddit’s Creative Studio Team. Developer Platform is a new way of making custom posts on Reddit. Where users could previously make text posts or polls, they can now create custom games, animation, leaderboards, and boundless other types of interactive posts using the platform.
Feed Me mixes individual decisions, aggregated team moves, and an urgent sense of competition to create a compelling gameplay experience. Inspired by pet games, furbies, and r/awww, we created simple, delightful actions players take to grow their pet.
Feed Me mixes individual decisions, aggregated team moves, and an urgent sense of competition to create a compelling gameplay experience. Inspired by pet games, furbies, and r/awww, we created simple, delightful actions players take to grow their pet.
Game Mechanics
As players join Feed Me, they are randomly assigned one of four animal teams: Cat, Narwhal, Frog, or Duck. Once per turn, they can either feed their character bananas to help them grow to the great beyond, or throw poop at the other characters to push them back to earth. We tested how to gamify a common goal and encourage users to rally around it. We implemented simple buttons, quick actions, and cool down mechanisms to urge players to return to the game over and over.
Streaks
When each user clicks the banana or the poop button multiple times in a row, we begin counting them as streaks. This triggers the combo animation, which counts up to five. Once the user reaches five streaks, the animal they’re targeting either moves up five points with a supercake animation for banana combos, or moves down five points with a superpoop animation for poop combos.
Multiplayer & Leaderboard
Within each team, each player’s moves (whether they click banana or poop that turn) are added together and affect the height of the animals on the screen in real time. Each player gets one move per turn, with a cooldown period in between, and must coordinate with their team to strategically race their animal to space while keeping other teams close to the ground.
The leaderboard shows the rankings for most bananas and most poops thrown by each user on your team. Our team tracked the points for each user, and attached them to their username. The total number of bananas or poops are added together at the bottom. Users can toggle between viewing the banana leaderboard and the poop leaderboard.
The leaderboard shows the rankings for most bananas and most poops thrown by each user on your team. Our team tracked the points for each user, and attached them to their username. The total number of bananas or poops are added together at the bottom. Users can toggle between viewing the banana leaderboard and the poop leaderboard.