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Hello everyone! 👋 The FediJam is the world's first (?) game jam exclusively for users of the Fediverse. During September, team up with others and... CREATE - A - GAME! Analog or digital, using whatever (non-AI) tools you feel comfortable with.

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FediJam

A game jam from 2024-08-31 to 2024-10-07 hosted by njamster & vacuumbeef. The FediJam is a month-long game jam for users of the Fediverse . Make a game (analog or digital, no engine restrictions) in as little or as much time...
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Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou
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if anyone wants to create a game that implements ActivityPub, I am happy to support
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ben 🇵🇸 ui
ben 🇵🇸 ui
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@evan I've always been interested in that, what kind of things could you do with a game and activitypub?
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Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou
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@ben I have a whole section of my book about it! It's in the "far horizons" chapter.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/activitypub/9781098162733/


ActivityPub

ActivityPub is the new standard for connecting social networks together on the social web. This open, decentralized social networking protocol defines an API for sharing activities to a social network … - Selection from ActivityPub [Book]
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Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou
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@ben
In summary: you can play the game itself over AP. See https://www.w3.org/wiki/Activity_Streams/Primer/Extensions for a chess example.

You can share game achievements into the stream; similar to how console platforms do.

You can share game start info.

You can do invitations.

You can do badging on profiles for achievements.

I hope that helps.

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Kelvin n0mql EN35ld
Kelvin n0mql EN35ld
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@evan
I’m presently writing a game aimed at #FediHams, i.e. Masto folks who’re also #HamRadio ops. Part of gameplay needs a way to share 110-byte txt file w/ other players. Need an easy way to…
1. hear a station on the radio
2. look them up
3. download their txt file, which show current status of their “board” so you know which grid squares you could play against.

But I have zero idea if that could be done w/ ActivityPub via Python. Thoughts?

#FediHams #HamRadio @Evan Prodromou
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marnanel
marnanel
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@evan One of the things I was going to do with kepi is to have something like chess or backgammon or connect-four on distributed servers.

Back in the days of AIM, they used to put games in that you could play against other users. Some years in the winter they added a snowball game.

There are straightforward ways of adding the game move and structure information to ActivityPub. But what if the game ID pointed to an implementation via sandboxed JavaScript? So you could play any game you were challenged to, like distributed boardgamearena.

I've pretty much given up on kepi though, unfortunately.

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marnanel
marnanel
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Create a game using ActivityPub, or just generally create a game?
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