03 Own product · Web game
Escândaloku
Escândaloku is a free logic game in Portuguese, in the style of Murdoku. Each case is a deduction puzzle set in a scandal that made the headlines, with invented characters and humour aimed at every side.
A
Context
Deduction puzzles have a loyal audience, but almost nothing exists in Portuguese and nothing with references people recognise at a glance.
B
The challenge
A deduction puzzle is only fair if it has exactly one solution, reachable from the clues alone. Writing 86 cases by hand with that guarantee would take months.
What we built
- 01
Generator engine
Picks floor plans, positions and clues, and only accepts cases with a unique solution.
- 02
Measured difficulty
A solver grades each case by the reasoning it requires, from direct reads to testing hypotheses.
- 03
Illustrated boards
Drawn rooms, furniture and portraits, readable on a phone.
- 04
Complete gameplay
Notes, strike-through clues, undo, hints, timer and result sharing.
- 05
Desktop and phone
Designed for both screens, installable on the phone, with saved progress and offline play.
- 06
Built to be found
Every case has a pre-rendered page with its own title, description, image and structured data.
- 07
Automated marketing
Instagram images are generated from the cases themselves.
By the numbers
- cases
- 86
- files
- 5
- largest board
- 10×10
- from first commit to launch
- 2 days
Technology
- Application
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Vite
- PWA with service worker
- Engine
- Generator and solver in JavaScript
- Fixed seeds, reproducible output
- Publishing
- Per-case pre-rendering
- Structured data
- Firebase Hosting
- Analytics
- Umami, cookieless
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