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BoonFest: The Anti-Sloth Game Where Generosity Means Survival!

Fayaz on September 07, 2026

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built I built BoonFest: a web game designed to awaken your inner ...
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Additional Notes for Judges:

  1. AI Usage Disclaimer:

    • The submission Post is completely written by me by hand (no AI).
    • The cover image is AI generated (Gemini) and then later edited in Gimp.
    • Game idea and game play logic is my original.
    • Web App is mostly AI generated and edited with multiple prompts (AI Studio), I spent most of my development time in directing, reviewing and testing the AI generated code and the web app itself.
  2. Demo Users:

    • Apart from playing as guest, there are 5 demo users (demouser1 to demouser5). Password for these users are the username followed by an exclamation mark.
    • Please use these user names for game evaluation if the in-game time restriction makes further evaluation difficult.
    • Different browser sessions may give you more play time as guest, but you'll not be able to test some features like Leader board, Trophy etc. without a logged in user.
  3. Admin:

    • Users with Admin access have more options like Card and AI Content Generation and Management, but I can't post those credentials publicly as it may damage the demo site and incur a huge AI API usage bill.
    • If you still have to test those options to pass the final judgement, then please send me an email.
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Futuritous •

Can I use the demo users to play? 😋

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Fayaz •

LOL. Better if you don't. 😆
Pls. send me an email to: me [at] fayaz [dot] dev
I'll create an account for you 😊

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UnitBuilds •

Cool concept! It's like Fable, trying to max out the Niceness 😂 except, no shortcut killing evil things... Just purely being helpful.

Something I had thought about, was making a troll page (in a way), just a social experiment, a basic web page, with a donate button, you click it, it gives you amounts to donate, you click donate and it just gives you a kind message. Closing the page though, shows a blocking popup, "not very generous are we?", then a different message if they cancel it and click donate and do the process. No payment linkage at all, just a pure social experiment. But thought against it, I dont think alot of people would click a link...

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Fayaz •

A better experiment would be to randomly give and take money on a donate page.

e.g. people will connect their PayPal, select an amount and click pay - sometimes the system will deduct the amount from their PayPal and other times the system will pay the same amount to their PayPal instead!

Let it lose and see how some people becomes crazy clicking when they realize that sometimes it pays back 🤣

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UnitBuilds •

🤣 and instead of tracking 'money donated', 'money received', just say 'money redistributed' 😂 and that tracks money people send and receive, so after the first pay-out, it's just pay-in, that way the greedy people just lose their gains, whereas those who choose to be generous get a happy surprise and the ability to still give if they choose.

1 problem, my country doesnt support paypal, so wont quite work... But feel free to run with it and see how many people do it 🤣 Afterwards, you can create a post where you donate token subscriptions or something from all the proceeds? In the end the greed became generosity 😇

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Fayaz •

PayPal would probably block the transactions at some point 🤣

Perhaps it's a better fit for some cheap but still valuable crypto.

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UnitBuilds •

Too many moving parts though, people are unlikely to set up crypto accounts, fund it, just to donate? But if you set up stripe, it'd work?

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Fayaz •

LOL, are we making another game in the comment section of DEV? 😂

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Daniel Nwaneri •

Wild that your own "world peace" suggestion became the actual theme, that's a cool full circle moment. Respect for going pen-and-paper on the generosity-as-survival game logic before touching AI Studio. good luck

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Fayaz •

Thanks 🥰

I could barely submit 😬

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Jessica Doering •

Thank you so much for mentioning Sprinkle! Boonfest is such a fun take on the challenge, and making generosity the thing that keeps you alive is really clever. I’m glad my little project could be part of the inspiration. I can’t wait to see where you take it! ❤️

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Fayaz •

You're most welcome! 🥰

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Divya •

This is a great project. All the best!!

Also, glad to see you still here, and you've built so many amazing projects and have been so consistent.

All the best

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Fayaz •

Thank you so much!
All the best to you too 🥰

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Divya •

Thank you 😊

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Tomasz •

How does BoonFest redefine collaboration mechanics in gaming 🥸

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Fayaz •

May be it doesn't completely redefine it, but it does so differently mainly conceptually.

Instead of counting game points based on credits (money) or growth, it counts game points based on generosity, or boon points.

I think if I implement the multiplayer mode, it'll become more obvious.

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Tomasz •

Thanks for your replay! :-)

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Robin IT •

Nice! 🤩

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Robin IT •

Please post about your final idea with this one.
I'm very much interested.

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Futuritous •

This is really a cool idea! 🤩
Just played my first 5 minutes as Guest user. Loved it.

Please keep developing. Can't wait to play the full release!

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Fayaz •

Thanks! 🥰