Driftkeep

The vision

Driftkeep is an idle RPG built around the idea that progress should feel earned even when you're not playing. Offline gains, weekly community goals, and a persistent world keep players invested without demanding their attention.

What I built

The full stack, from the Godot 4.5 game client through to the self-hosted infrastructure:

• Game client in GDScript, with split-resolution rendering, real-time combat, and offline progression
• NestJS API with REST + WebSocket gateways, JWT auth, and a server-authoritative state model
• PostgreSQL for persistence, with 70+ entities covering characters, inventory, quests, the social systems
• Redis for sessions, real-time community goal counters, party state, and pub/sub
• MinIO for self-hosted S3-compatible storage
• Next.js apps for the marketing site, wiki, forum, and admin panel — all sharing infrastructure

Outcome

Driftkeep is live and being played by a growing community. The codebase is structured for long-term maintenance: 150+ design documents, comprehensive type safety, and a deployment pipeline that lets me ship updates with a single command.