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What have I been up-to the last few days? cavu.games is now live. This has been a pipe dream since the beginning of the summer and it's mostly working. For now it's 2 games that I'd previously published elsewhere, but there will be some new exclusive games later this month. 🧵 on why this is cool

cavu.gamesCavu GamesSmall games that play nicely with your Atmosphere account. Your scores and saves live in your own repo.

Chris Pardy

@pardy.at

Cavu Games is the first working version of my "intent to launch" design that I originally pitched to @trezy.codes leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:dp... What this means is that you sign-in once on cavu.games and then games listed there on any domain can use your login to write to your PDS.

leaflet.pubgamesgamesgamesgames.games Intent to Launch

Chris Pardy

@pardy.at

play.cavu.games is our "cavu games engine" built in rust which uses lua for scripting. Games are going to be shipped as at-proto records so anyone with a working copy of the engine can run them. Being able to leverage the same engine for multiple games should reduce the level of effort to build.

Chris Pardy

@pardy.at

The cool thing about the play.cavu.games endpoint is that it also acts as a proxy to a dev server running on your computer via iroh. That means that you can host a game locally and invite people to play with a play.cavu.games url. This supports hot reloading of game bundles to the client

7/10/26, 3:33 pm0 reposts0 likes

Chris Pardy

@pardy.at

Next up I'm working on the game forge which will include an in-browser version of the dev server. So you can edit and play your game with just a web browser. I'm looking at how I can incorporate low cost coding models to make game development more accessible.