GameBox is a programmable, turn-based, WebAssembly game platform

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144 points·neuronicnobody··20 comments

If you're interested in making your own game, please feel free to reach out on Discord: https://discord.gg/cx3usBCWnc

Or refer to some existing WASM game examples: https://github.com/extism/game_box/tree/main/games - currently games can be built using Extism PDKs in any of Go, Rust, Javascript/Typescript, Zig, Haskell, AssemblyScript or C/C++!

Is there anywhere I can try playing those game examples without downloading and running it myself?

Not really. We've talked about a next step being some kind of development environment for this. Our plug-in playground environment comes close to this, but you can't currently set or use plug-in variables in this tool: https://playground.extism.org/

To make development smoother, what I've been doing is separating the game code and the Extism code. Write unit tests and test harness code against your game code and run it on your host machine.

This can be seen in this tictactoe game in rust: https://github.com/extism/game_box/tree/main/games/tictactoe or this trivia game in typescript: https://github.com/extism/game_box/tree/main/games/wasm-triv...

I really want to learn something like this,

but, where are all the demos? this indicates that to learn it would be a steep learning curve

eg look/ google p5.play, even the tutorials are playful

Check out the games directory here: https://github.com/extism/game_box/tree/main/games

There aren't yet high quality docs. But if you want to give it a shot I'd try forking one of those and asking questions in the discord: https://discord.gg/tukQnCME

Front matter calls out “fly.io” - should be “fly.dev”

Why? The company is clearly called Fly.io

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