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Word Grid 3D

A cinematic 3D brain-teaser word puzzle game combining daily word challenges, tactile single-player progression, friend time challenges, and live online head-to-head puzzle solving.

Cinematic 3D word puzzleDaily challenge ritualLive online duelsFriend time challengesPrivacy-first player identity
Placeholder artwork for Word Grid 3D, showing a cinematic 3D word puzzle slate suspended in deep space.

Experience

A cinematic 3D puzzle experience built for daily play, sharing, and live competition.

Word Grid 3D is a premium browser-based puzzle game built around a tactile 4×4 word grid suspended inside a cinematic puzzle space. Players trace adjacent letters to solve curated boards, complete a daily challenge, revisit archive puzzles, challenge friends to beat their time, and compete in live online duels.

The experience is designed to feel like a crafted digital puzzle artefact: atmospheric, fast to play, rewarding to return to, and structured around solo progression, social challenge sharing, and live competitive puzzle solving.

Experience loop

01 Daily puzzle
02 Progression
03 Friend challenge
04 Live duel

Daily 3D brain teaser

One curated 4×4 word puzzle gives players a compact daily challenge.

Tactile puzzle solving

Players trace adjacent letters, including diagonals, to uncover hidden answers.

Solo progression

XP, streaks, milestones, and Player Cards give repeat play a long-term shape.

Head-to-head play

Quick Match and invite duels turn the same board into a live online race.

Friend challenges

Shareable time-to-beat links make the daily puzzle social without forcing accounts.

Privacy-first identity

Player Key recovery lets players keep progress across devices without login.

Views

Key moments from the player experience.

Placeholder artwork for Word Grid 3D daily puzzle gameplay.

Daily 3D puzzle

Placeholder artwork for Word Grid 3D live online duel mode.

Live online duels

Placeholder artwork for Word Grid 3D player progression and sharing.

Player progression

Systems

A product shaped around connected experience loops.

Product loop

Play Progress Share Challenge Return

Gameplay

  • Daily 4×4 word challenge
  • Archive puzzle mode
  • Touch-first word tracing
  • Score, time and pace tracking

Progression

  • XP and levels
  • Streaks and milestones
  • Player Card
  • Player Key recovery

Sharing

  • Daily challenge links
  • Friend time challenges
  • Public landing pages
  • Shareable Player Card

Online play

  • Live PvP
  • Quick Match
  • Invite duels
  • Friends & Rivals

Operations

  • Mission Control dashboard
  • Challenge analytics
  • Share attribution
  • R2-hosted runtime assets

Build

Role, stack, systems, and implementation craft.

A concise technical record of how the project was designed, engineered, deployed, and maintained — from interface systems and backend architecture to sharing, analytics, and live iteration.

Architecture map

1 Client
2 Cloudflare edge
3 Workers / DO
4 D1 / R2
5 Mission Control

Role

Concept, product design, game design, UX/UI direction, 3D visual direction, full-stack engineering, backend/API architecture, real-time multiplayer design, Cloudflare deployment, analytics design, testing, iteration, and ongoing live product development.

Technical outline

Built with React, TypeScript, Three.js, Cloudflare Pages, Workers, Durable Objects, WebSockets, D1, R2, public share pages, and custom analytics tooling.

Frontend and 3D experience

ReactTypeScriptViteThree.jsWebGLHTML/CSSMobile-first responsive UI

Cloudflare architecture

Cloudflare PagesCloudflare WorkersPages FunctionsDurable ObjectsWebSocketsCloudflare D1Cloudflare R2Cloudflare Access

Product systems

Daily puzzle deliveryPlayer progressionPlayer Key recoveryPublic challenge pagesOpen Graph share previewsMission Control analyticsPrivacy-first event instrumentation