Over the last seven days, I built Boomboxr, a head-to-head music trivia game built around satisfy...Over the last seven days, I built Boomboxr, a head-to-head music trivia game built around satisfy...
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Over the last seven days, I built Boomboxr, a head-to-head music trivia game built around satisfying swipes, curated song packs, and competitive progression.
This slice includes a full gameplay loop: earn XP, climb leaderboards, unlock packs, and face bot challenges. Every track is hand-curated across decades or genres for a mix of familiar and fresh.
Featuring player profiles, mock in-app purchases, ranks, seasons, social feeds, seasons, and more: Boomboxr proves a polished, scalable game can come to life in around a week- all entirely inside the Anything platform!
Postmortem thoughts:
This one was really satisfying to bring together. I focused a lot on making sure every design and functional choice felt cohesive and intentional, and it came together in a way that just flows. It was fun exploring how an LLM could align with a clear...
That’s seriously impressive, Rob.
Boomboxr perfectly captures the fun side of competition while keeping it clean and scalable — building this in just a week is no small feat!
Quick question: do you plan to add real-time multiplayer or keep it asynchronous for now?
@Robert Kaltenbach This looks really impressive and like something I would love to play.
If I may, though, I have one observation: Your homepage maybe isn't clear enough about what this is. I would get the word "music" in the title somewhere to instantly draw in music lovers and let them know...
Ah, what a good call out. Tunnel vision and the last minute crunch definitely caught me on the web page. I will take this to heart on the redesign. Thank you for your thoughtful feedback!