Games are all just JavaScript classes and you can read the source of every game on the platform.
I started working on initial "games" (mostly rendering tests) in 2018 and eventually built all of the platform stuff around it to make it easy to share games.
There's also an in-browser editor available for you to make and publish games all from the browser.
Would love some feedback on the games and studio features as well as the platform overall. All of the code is available at https://github.com/homegamesio
The idea is that you could use a browser or custom client or whatever to connect to a game server
Theoretically you could do this all client side too, but that would remove the magic of every game getting multiplayer for free
You'd still get multiplayer "for free", but it could be turned on and off. You could do it with zero code change for the actual games, they don't have to know.
It seems some of the games could do with a singleplayer mode that doesn't depend on the backend having free slots.
Just an idea from a fellow web games person!
Why reach for a server unless you truly need one! My multiplayer mode is p2p planned
fun
Anyway nice concept. I’m also making web games (see my post history) so if anyone wanted to connect and discuss, send me an email (in profile too)
Just keep pushing, I know how hard it is
The initial idea was to make jackbox style games people could host on their computers and play on their phones in the same room over wifi.
Added to that and kind of did a whole lot of nothing productive around covid, just experiments that didn’t get deployed anywhere. And a podcast with over 100 episodes.
A few years ago my wife and I had our first kid, so I spent about a year polishing the self hosted stuff and figured I would put the project on the shelf.
So that’s pretty much what I did until around 6 months ago when I realized the actual Internet is fast enough to run these games outside of a LAN, and a lot of people including myself miss browser based games. That plus Claude making me way more effective in my limited free time led to the current state of things
Thanks for sharing! Cool that you haven't stopped working on this project after that long time. It gives me inspiration to work on my projects which I can't find time to finish.
I made the game I wanted, enjoyed it with family and friends, and then let COVID sweep it away. Congrats on continuing to work on it.