Role
Product Designer & Full-Stack Game Engineer
Player experience
Cups and Giggles is designed as a party-first guessing game. Players can host or join a room in seconds, choose a theme, and move through short competitive rounds that work equally well for solo play, remote friends, or in-person groups sharing the same session.
Modes and categories
- Supports themed decks spanning pop culture, film, games, and public figures.
- Extends beyond standard trivia into charades, pictionary, multiple choice, and image-based guessing.
- Uses obscured imagery and clue-driven prompts so the same content can power multiple game modes.
Realtime multiplayer
- Players create or join rooms with short shareable codes and clear ready-state feedback.
- Scores, countdowns, and round transitions are synchronized through a dedicated realtime gateway.
- Global, weekly, and friends leaderboards keep the competition alive beyond a single party session.
System design
A custom content pipeline turns source data into playable decks, so new categories can be imported, processed, and served without hand-authoring every question and image asset.
Architecture snapshot
Mobile client
Flutter frontend with animated navigation, cached images, and hooks for sign-in, ads, and purchases.
Core services
Fastify handles auth, content, and profile APIs while Go manages low-latency room events and gameplay state.
Data layer
PostgreSQL stores users, scores, and question data, while Redis holds room state and live leaderboard updates.
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