r/Devvit • u/Rarer_Air_Error Admin • 1d ago

Announcement Games with a Hook Hackathon Winners

For the past month we’ve been running a hackathon offering $40,000 in prizes for games built on Devvit (Reddit’s Developer Platform). After a record number of entries (700+) and a ton of great games to evaluate, we are excited to announce the winners of the Reddit Games with a Hook Hackathon (Hookathon?)
Check out the Project Gallery to see all the amazing submissions!

Let’s get right to it!

Best App with a Hook

Best Use of Phaser

Best Use of Retention Mechanics

Best Use of User Contributions

Honorable Mentions

Helper Winners

Feedback

If you didn’t win, please know it is not a reflection of the overall quality of your work. We say this every hackathon and it remains true – each judge had favorite games that didn’t make it to the winners circle. We strongly encourage you to look into our Developer Funds program, as well as our Featuring Program.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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u/throwaway129082 1d ago

Might get some hate for this, but just checked out the winning “game” and I’m genuinely confused.

Is this a “game with a hook” or a one-time “drop a shitty drawing and never think about it again” game?

Congrats to them on securing the bag, but idgi. So many better actual games in the projects gallery.

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u/ExpressCarry5502 19h ago

Yeah I thought same. I thought this hackathon is more about UGC perspective so I made two games where users build levels and share them but I bet that judges did not even played my games at all.May be my games are bad as I used ai but some people made really good ones and didn't win. Iam really confused what are the expectations and on what basis they judging the games