DREDGE Discord Bot

This started as my UC capstone project. Black Salt Games had given me a brief to create a miniaturized version of their DREDGE fishing game inside discord for their community.

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Over the period of around 8 weeks, I created a discord bot to Black Salt Games' specification. I ran several tests with around 20 participants in a testing discord server, and after participants caught over 1,700 fish over the 2 week final testing period. I was awarded the
Best Validated/Tested Product
award in the UC 2024 Product Design Exhibition.


Though the assignment was over, I continued to work on this in my spare time. Refining the game and adding useful features. In late January 2026, 2 years after the assignment concluded. Black Salt Games reached out to me about deploying this on their official DREDGE discord.


Over the next month. I worked with Black Salt Games to prepare the bot, running a closed beta and eventually launching the bot live on their discord server in early March 2026.

The Following data is gathered from the first month of the bot going live.