Fly through towns, thwart evil, and collect coins you can redeem for ecosystem assets.
Sudochase is an endless flyer we built as a Telegram mini app. You tap to keep the cat in the air, hit quick time events to take out whatever's coming at you, and pick up coins along the way that could be redeemed for Solana ecosystem assets at TGE. I handled the game UI, the economy screens and the mobile experience, working with the Sudocat mascots we already had.
At Sudolabs we were moving from crypto trading tools into web3 games, and the brief was a game built around the Sudocat brand and mascots that people would come back to. None of us had shipped a game before, so we figured a fair amount out as we went.
It had to hold up as a game on its own, and the coins had to mean something once TGE came around. All of that inside a game where players never sit still.
I settled the UI style first, pulling from AMC's character designs: bright, puffy, a bit skeuomorphic, so the interface looked like it came from the same world as the cat. With that fixed I wasn't re-deciding how things should look every time a new screen came up.
Puffy, tactile shapes pulled from the character work we already had, so the UI didn't feel like a separate thing.
Short messages in big type. Nobody reads a paragraph while trying not to fall out of the sky.
Scorecards designed so you'd want to post a run.
Tapping keeps the cat in the air, and quick time events break up the flying with something you actively have to beat, which gives a run a bit of rhythm instead of just dodging things until you die. Coins stack up across runs and carry over into the ecosystem at TGE.
Since the game barely pauses, instructions show up inside the run as short prompts rather than as a tutorial up front. Coins and pause stay at the top where you can find them, and everything else only turns up when you actually need it.
We added shareable scorecards to pull players back and to market the game at the same time. The end of a run is when you have something to say, so that's where the share sits.
Losing needed about as much attention as winning. If you miss, the screen shrugs it off and the retry only costs one charge, so it doesn't feel like a dead end.
Sudochase launched with 10K+ total players and 5K+ active at peak times. Those are the numbers I have. I don't have retention or conversion figures from that period, so I can't say how well it held that audience.
10K+ total players at launch · 5K+ active at peak
The UI came together pretty quickly once the visual style was settled, but the economy was the harder part. Making a coin feel earned inside a ten second run when it also has to mean something at a TGE months later is more about pacing and trust than it is about screens, and it's what I'd test properly before doing another one.
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