Session: Reddit Has Games: Build, Distribute, And Monetize On A Global Platform
summary
Reddit launches a new HTML5 publishing platform called Devit that hosts games on the home feed, a dedicated games feed and a community games drawer, serving across Android, iOS and web and handling backend compute and DB so viral spikes don’t bankrupt creators. About 5,000 developers and hundreds of games exist now, Reddit pays developers from a creative fund ( ~$100,000 paid last year ), supports in‑app purchases via Reddit Gold, and provides Unity, GameMaker, Phaser, 3JS and Godot templates plus a $40,000 hackathon.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Reddit Games platform intro
- 1:33What Reddit is and gaming
- 3:19Where games appear
- 4:02Devit developer platform
- 5:04Game types to build
- 6:27Success with UGC games
- 9:59Daily puzzles and growth
- 11:50Examples of Reddit games
- 13:16How games distribute
- 13:58Monetization options
- 15:43Devit templates start
- 16:05Reddit game jam hackathon
- 17:08Q&A
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