A public leaderboard with a kingdom around it.
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The premise is simple: submit a website or social profile, make a paid bid, and climb a public hierarchy. Cumulative paid spend decides the rank.
The pixel-art world makes that hierarchy understandable before the rules are read. Under the theatre, payment confirmation, listing identity, ranking, and tie-breaking need to remain explicit and reliable.
I built the product and its visual world, connecting a responsive Next.js interface with Stripe payments, Cloudflare Workers, and Durable Objects.
Inside Fallen Throne
The key workflows, up close.
The king, dukes, knights, commoners, and lower ranks have distinct positions and visual treatments. Price-to-pass actions connect the joke to the actual interaction.
Repeat bids strengthen the same normalized listing instead of creating duplicate entries for the same destination.
The mobile version uses tighter character tiers and its own controls. The hierarchy still reads from crown to floor while the main actions remain reachable.
The layout preserves the product’s identity instead of reducing every rank to the same generic card.
The join flow captures the destination and bid, then hands payment to Stripe. A successful return verifies the payment before the public rank changes.
The browser cannot invent the amount paid. Unpaid, expired, malformed, and unrelated events do not become successful bids.
Behind the interface
Cumulative paid spend leads. Equal spend is resolved by outbound clicks, then the earlier paid claim, then a stable identifier.
Stripe Search can lag behind checkout. The return path verifies and merges the payment directly without counting it twice later.
Cloudflare Workers validate requests and build the board. Durable Objects keep click counters consistent across concurrent visitors.
My work on Fallen Throne
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