JaxWilko.Game

A Winter CMS plugin that provides a multiplayer game engine running in PHP for 2D sprite based games using HTML5 Canvas and WebSockets.

Features

• Browser based
• Multiplayer
• Quests
• Items
• Inventory
• Level Editor
• Scriptable Entities
• Scriptable Triggers
• Scriptable Item Objects
• Scriptable Inventory Objects
• Scriptable Sprites
• Teleporters (local & cross level)
• Entity AI (multiple modes)

Requirements

• php >= 8.2
• ext-posix
• ext-pcntl
• ext-sockets

Install

composer require jaxwilko/wn-game-plugin
php artisan migrate
php artisan mix:install
php artisan mix:compile -f -p jaxwilko.game
php artisan game:publish

For a detailed installation guide including server configuration and level editing, see: Getting Started.

Running

To run the game server with the demo level, execute:

php artisan game:serve -f -m demo

The game server can be started via the backend control panel or via the CLI (in both fg and daemonized modes). See the help page for details:

php artisan game:serve -h

Demo

If you would like to run a local demo, check out this repo.

Why?

I thought it would be funny and nobody stopped me, for more see development notes.

Thanks