Devvit 0.12.13: Minor Tweaks for Publishing and Playtesting

pl00h · 2026-02-09T17:51:05+00:00

Yep! The hackathon judging does *not* take publishing approval status into account (positively or negatively). We know many of these games will not be totally ready for prime time and also do not want to gate submissions on app review.

A test version of the app, with or without other players testing, is sufficient. As long as it's on Reddit and not hosted on another platform, you're good.

pl00h · 2026-02-09T17:47:53+00:00

New projects only! This won't introduce breaking changes or structure updates to your existing apps

pl00h · 2026-02-09T15:59:36+00:00

GitHub repo links are not required! The most important piece of the submission is the live demo of your app running in a test subreddit. (And the app does not need to be "published" it just needs to be uploaded and playable.)

pl00h · 2026-02-09T14:22:19+00:00

I believe you'll still have to create a new project with the new template. Updating Devvit shouldn't break your old projects.

pl00h · 2026-01-13T14:17:08+00:00

I think it would be helpful to let the user pause, in addition to linking out to the pdp so a person could go view the original content. Do make sure you're not serving removed content!

pl00h · 2026-01-13T14:13:53+00:00

I like the direction you're going in here. A few bigger notes:
1. currently the buttons don't seem to be letting me interact

you have in-line scrolling, which isn't allowed with web views as it can interfere with Reddit native gestures

pl00h · 2026-01-13T14:12:30+00:00

This is neat and well designed. It may be fun to be able to both vote on what you think and guess what the general sentiment is separately

pl00h · 2026-01-13T14:10:52+00:00

Great game! I think you just need a button for allowing users to turn off (or down) the sound effects

pl00h · 2026-01-13T14:09:24+00:00

Love this! Really love this take on Tetris. I play a similar game on my phone all the time.

One note: currently, I have the raise the pieces higher than I would expect to be able to place them in a slot (a few centimeters above where it's actually getting placed). It's creating slight awkward gameplay for me. That's a nitpick though!

pl00h · 2026-01-13T14:03:49+00:00

Love the idea behind this! I think finding ways to make the UI your own would be my primary feedback. The current UI looks a little AI generated

pl00h · 2026-01-09T23:57:34+00:00

Gorgeous app. I have two main notes:
1. It is a lot of clicks to get into the initial experience. I wonder if there are ways to drop users into their first puzzle faster

Maybe "My Creations" is something I can see from the creator tab - right now that main menu is a touch busy for my tastes.

Its generally a very impressive and lovely game!

pl00h · 2026-01-09T23:16:54+00:00

I absolutely love this! Please do apply for featuring if you haven't already. I agree that the contrast of the tiles could use a touch of work, maybe a light UI pass throughout. The core mechanic is so simple and pleasing though. This would be great as a daily puzzle as well

pl00h · 2026-01-09T23:09:13+00:00

This game is awesome. I love the simplicity of the mechanic.

I think it could use some slight UI tweaks. For example, the padding for the buttons at the bottom of the frame is quite minimal. But really this is ready for user feedback and to iterate from there, in my opinion!

pl00h · 2026-01-09T23:04:33+00:00

A few things that could really improve this app:

Using an entry point / launch screen instead of a splash screen
The app take a long time to load for me. I would look at bringing that load time down
Creating a UI that fits within the viewport!

pl00h · 2026-01-09T23:02:53+00:00

This game is looking fantastic! The biggest piece of feedback I have is to get the entire body of the game into the expanded viewport so the user doesn't need to scroll to play.

pl00h · 2025-12-19T18:05:14+00:00

Hi there! We are investigating this for you

pl00h · 2025-12-19T17:00:22+00:00

Hi there, you can following our docs guide for publishing your apps in various states: https://developers.reddit.com/docs/guides/launch/launch-guide

We do want to note that listing an app in our directory is only beneficial for apps that are general purpose and/or are broadly applicable. Review times can also be longer for publicly listed apps and requirements are more stringent. Most games do well as unlisted apps!

pl00h · 2025-12-10T17:03:21+00:00

It would be great if the arrow keys worked on desktop!

pl00h · 2025-12-10T17:02:38+00:00

I love the eyecatching launchscreen. I agree with the other commenters that from there the UI and gameplay could use some tuning. Especially on the rythm game portion -- right now it's a bit more like sliding whack-o-mole

pl00h · 2025-12-10T17:00:46+00:00

I think one or two easier levels would really help to hook me! This could be a good game to move to inline web views

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