
Game · Oct 9, 2026, on X
Decicat: A Decibel Adventure
A one-touch pixel-art runner for the Decibel community. Hop the candlesticks, stomp the bears, beat the Bear King and ride a rocket to the moon. It plays in the browser and right inside posts on X.
My role Built from an original concept by @doncastro. I directed the design, tested every build, launched it on X and grew the community around it, including a Decibel community contest run together with @doncastro.
- 453playersas of Oct 15, 2026
- 6,139ranked runslive, Nov 4, 2026, 11:48 PM ET
- ~314runs in the first 2 hoursOct 9, 2026
- 140,711top score, by LANGmaylive, Nov 4, 2026, 11:48 PM ET
- 14of the top 20 runs reached the moonlive, Nov 4, 2026, 11:48 PM ET
- 15+players posted their own runs on XOct 10-15, 2026
Decibel community contest with @doncastro: ended Oct 15, 2026; winners announced Oct 16, 2026.
Back story
I created this game after being inspired by a few posts on X. Castro, Decibel's Head of Community, had made a video of the Decicat character in a video game, and there was also a trend of games embedded in X posts through X's player card feature. After seeing those posts, I wondered what a full Decicat video game would look like.
I spent some time shaping the game, from the stages and music to the gameplay, the scoreboard and more, and then launched it for the Aptos and Decibel communities to play. It was a big hit, and Castro ran a week-long campaign that gave rewards to the top five players on the scoreboard.
By the end of the week, more than 450 players had tried to beat the game across over 6,000 runs. The launch posts and later posts about the game drew hundreds of thousands of impressions on X, and community members shared dozens of gameplay videos and screenshots. It was a form of gamified marketing: the goal was to give the community a fun activity and also spread the word about the Decibel DEX on Aptos.
On X · impressions, likes, reposts and replies as of Oct 17, 2026
- @angelataptos · Oct 9, 2026 Launch post 222,145 impressions78 likes15 reposts23 replies
- @angelataptos · Oct 10, 2026 Day-one stats Milestone on Oct 10, 2026: 2,567 runs, 200+ players, top score 109,369 223,413 impressions95 likes8 reposts14 replies
- @angelataptos · Oct 11, 2026 Day-two stats Milestone on Oct 11, 2026: 3,700+ runs, 300+ players 1,899 impressions41 likes9 reposts11 replies
- @angelataptos · Oct 12, 2026 5,000 runs Milestone on Oct 12, 2026: 5,000+ runs, 400+ players, record 140,711 by @langmay9 1,653 impressions45 likes5 reposts
- @angelataptos · Oct 13, 2026 Five-day stats Oct 13, 2026: 5,651 ranked runs (scoreboard, 4:26 PM ET); 5,967 runs in all, including short unranked ones 1,806 impressions46 likes11 reposts14 replies
- @angelataptos · Oct 15, 2026 Thank-you to the players 1,118 impressions54 likes10 reposts19 replies
- @doncastro · Oct 16, 2026 Contest winners, announced by @doncastro 43,197 impressions97 likes19 reposts35 replies
Players sharing their runs · 15+ players posted their own runs, Oct 10-15, 2026. Players shared runs in Korean too.


