Gobble

What it does

• Built Gobble before college, learning Flutter and the BLoC pattern from scratch.
• Designed a turn-based game where players choose which tiles to gobble, aiming to eliminate the opponent’s color from the board.
• Combined chess-inspired movement and positioning with 2048-style tile merging, so winning depends on tactics rather than score alone.
• Implemented real-time multiplayer with Cloud Firestore: players create or join a six-digit room, subscribe to game-state updates, and synchronize moves and turns live.

Why I built it

Gobble started as a fun idea: combine the tactical decisions of chess with the satisfying merges of 2048. I built the entire game before college while teaching myself Flutter and BLoC from scratch.

How it plays

Gobble is a 1v1 game, not a score chase. Players move and gobble tiles across the board, and the goal is to eliminate the opponent’s color. Every move is a decision about positioning, timing, and which tile is worth taking.

Multiplayer

I used Cloud Firestore as the real-time game layer. A player creates a six-digit room code, a second player joins it, and both clients listen to the shared room state. Each move updates the board action and whose turn comes next.

What I learned

Gobble was my first full game project. It taught me Flutter, BLoC state management, and how to make a turn-based multiplayer game stay synchronized in real time.

How it works

1. Your move

   chess-like movement and positioning

2. Gobble

   choose which tile to take and merge

3. Room state

   six-digit room on Cloud Firestore

   moves and turns sync live

4. Opponent

   listens to the room and takes their turn

The goal is to eliminate the opponent’s color from the board.