GiveFTW
A charity game for the gaming community, where completing tasks unlocks donations instead of asking viewers for money.
- Year
- 2021
- Role
- Development team · FullStack
- Stack
- PHP · Laravel · MySQL · JavaScript
- Status
- Season 1 shipped
Charity streaming has always had an awkward moment: the ask. Streamers don’t love pressuring their viewers, and viewers don’t love being pressured. Caffelli’s idea was to remove it. Sponsors fund the donation up front, and the community earns it by completing tasks during a season, things like watching a partner’s stream or reading about the nonprofit. Points also unlock loot drops and prizes along the way.
Season 1 ran in 2021 with Intel as sponsor and more than twenty streamers on board. Over three thousand players completed thirty-four thousand tasks, and $50,000 went to each of The Trevor Project and Oceana. When players were surveyed afterwards, almost all of them said they’d play again.
I was part of the development team. We built it on Laravel: the season site, player accounts, the task and points engine that verified completions and released drops, prize tracking, and the admin side where each season’s sponsors, tasks and charities were set up.
- Design
- End to end
- Engineering
- FullStack
- Infrastructure
- Laravel stack end to end
- Link
- Coming soon
Define
A season model where sponsors, tasks, prizes and charities can all change from one run to the next, and a points system that rewards attention rather than money.
Design & build
Built on Laravel as a team: the public season site, player accounts, the task and points engine, loot drops and the admin panel.
Ship & run
Season 1 went live with Intel and more than twenty streamers, handled thousands of players, and delivered $100,000 to the two charities.