🔮 Skill Seeker

Welcome to Skill Seeker — a community multiplayer game that turns your Reddit post into a wild professional quest! Recruit your crew, take on challenges, and climb the leaderboard — all from inside a Reddit thread. This project was built for Hack Reddit 2025 to showcase the power of real-time multiplayer experiences using Devvit.

🎯 Mission

Become part of a secret society of professionals. Each mission requires a team of experts: doctor, astronomer, sysadmin, and more. 🕵️‍♂️💼 Assemble your crew. Answer the right questions. Win as a team. 🏆 Get a point as an individual professional, and show others your professionalism on the leaderboard. 🎯

💡 Game Highlights

• ✨ Assemble a team & face the challenge — all questions are synced in real-time via Devvit channels.

• 👥 Comment-based team joining — just reply with !join command.

• 📩 Invite teammates directly — use the built-in invite form to bring others into the game.

• ⚡ Live role validation — only the right player can answer.

• 🔁 Restart anytime — reshuffle your team and try again.

• 📈 Leaderboard powered by Redis — top players score big.

• 🎲 35 total questions and professions — but only 5 are randomly selected per game.

  No one knows in advance which specialists will be needed — assemble wisely!

  Each team must have exactly 5 players to begin the challenge.

🕹️ How to Play

1. 🔁 Start a new game from the post.
2. 👥 Users join the team via comment: !join [profession]
3. 🤝 When all roles are filled, hit Continue.
4. 🎓 Answer questions only if it’s your role’s turn.
5. 🏆 Beat the final challenge to score a point on the leaderboard!

💬 Example Join

!join programmer

⚡ Will fill the "programmer" slot if it’s available.

🧪 Example Flow

1. User A clicks Go to Team ➡️
2. Game generates 5 questions and 5 specialists (broadcasted)
3. User B joins with !join painter
4. Game shows team status: PAINTER - userB
5. Once all filled → start challenge
6. Each user takes their turn answering
7. Victory? Leaderboard +1 point! Failure? Try again.

🧠 Pro Tips

• Only the assigned role can answer!
• You can invite users via the built-in invite form
• Use restart to regenerate roles & questions

📋 Requirements

• A Reddit post to host the game
• Devvit app setup and installed on your subreddit
• Users with Reddit accounts (no login required in-game)

📦 Tech Stack

• Devvit API: realtime sync, UI blocks, Reddit data integration
• Redis: persistent leaderboard via zIncrBy
• React-style structure: modular functional pages with shared props
• Comment polling: listens for comments via getComments() every 5s

🛠 Local Dev Tools

Tool	Version	Notes
Devvit CLI	0.11.7	Core Devvit CLI
Node.js & npm	23.4.0 / 11.1.0	Includes npx utility
TypeScript & Prettier	5.3.2 / 3.5.3	For typing and formatting
VS Code	latest	Editor of choice
Redis	latest	For leaderboard storage

🧱 Core Components

Page	Purpose
PageWelcome	Entry screen with navigation
PageTeam	Comment-based team assembly
PageChallenge	Questions by role with validation
PageVictory	Victory screen + point assignment
PageDefeat	Failure screen + restart option
PageLeaderboard	Live leaderboard from Redis

🔗 Real-Time Channels

• question_set — syncs the exact same questions across all players
• specialists_sync — syncs roles for the team
• page_sync / level_sync — for smooth multi-user transitions
• reset_team — resets team slots for a new run

🛠 Dev Mode

Built entirely in main.tsx using modular page components. All logic runs inside the Devvit custom post renderer — no backend required beyond Redis for leaderboard scoring.

🤝 Built For

Reddit + Devvit + multiplayer fun 🎉 Optimized for community-driven gameplay in subreddit threads. Perfect for hackathons, online communities, or just showing off what Devvit can really do.

📜 License

MIT License — see LICENSE for full text. Built with 💜 by vero-git-hub. Please keep this credit if you reuse or remix the project.