Boost the Creators You Love

Boosts v1

Boosts are live. A boost lets a player send value to the creator of a game directly, denominated in Credits, from the surface where the game already lives. This is the first version of the mechanic, and it is built around two pieces: the flow that captures the boost and the transaction that records it.

The BoostGameDrawer flow and the boost transaction

The player-facing entry point is the BoostGameDrawer. From a game in the feed you open the drawer, pick an amount in Credits, and confirm. Confirmation commits a boost transaction server-side: in a single transaction we debit the player's Credit balance, write a boost record that ties the player, the game, and the amount together, and credit the creator. Doing the whole thing in one transaction is the point. Either the player is debited and the creator's boost is recorded together, or nothing happens, so a half-applied boost where Credits leave one side without landing on the other is not a state the system can reach.

The boost record is also the durable history behind what creators and players see afterward. Because the boost is a row that links player, game, and amount rather than a fire-and-forget event, a creator's received boosts and a player's sent boosts both read off the same record. There is no separate ledger to reconcile against the balances.

Leaderboards inline in the feed

We also moved leaderboards into the feed. Previously a game's standings lived on a separate page; now the board renders inline next to the game it belongs to, reading off the same scoped-ranking queries the leaderboard backend already serves. Pulling the board into the scroll means the contest is always visible right where a player might decide to boost, so attention and support land in the same place instead of on two disconnected surfaces.

The deal for creators has historically been indirect: to earn anything you go viral on a platform you do not control, chase an ad network, or hand the upside to a publisher. Boosts cut that loop short. An AI game maker lets anyone publish instantly, the feed finds an audience, competition keeps it engaged, and now a boost lets that audience fund the next game directly. Find a creator you love and boost them.