playmint/playerchain-demo

[!NOTE]
Playerchains are a peer-to-peer network architecture for running responsive, multiplayer games that are decentralised and verifiable.

We’ve built a demo game you can play!

Download and start a playerchain with your friends

[!TIP]
By playing the game together, you and your friends become nodes on your own playerchain.

Why Playerchains?

Playerchains are a way for players to have full control of their own responsive, multiplayer games without relying on anyone or anything beyond their own gaming machine.

:balance_scale: We’re interested in moving control of your games away from corporations back to you!

:desktop_computer: For multiplayer games, that means removing the reliance on central servers.

:atom_symbol: Public blockchains are decentralised, but you still rely on external compute. This is expensive and constrains performance.

:white_check_mark: Playerchains remove reliance on anyone outside your game’s group.

Read more about why we think playerchains are cool here

How do Playerchains work?

:handshake: Games built on playerchain netcode allow the player's machines to connect and share inputs in realtime.

:ledger: Each player maintains their own history of actions and connected players combine this into a DAG.

:stopwatch: Cutting edge distributed systems protocols ensure everyone agrees on the inputs with fast finality.

:crystal_ball: Game logic runs in deterministic lockstep with prediction and rollback; an established netcode pattern.

:lock_with_ink_pen: Inputs are cryptographically signed, so gameplay and results are provable and allow for player attestations.

:chains: This unlocks interop with blockchains, leaderboard servers, community tools, or other playerchain games.

:crown: Each player maintains their own sovereign blockchain with an immutable history of their actions.

:atom_symbol: The individual chains combine to form an emergent blocklace.

:earth_africa: This global lattice, with a plurality of partial views, opens up new possibilities for connecting worlds.

:speech_balloon: If you have comments or feedback, we'd love to hear from you! Come speak to us in discord

You can take a closer look at the architecture here

Contributors

Todo

[x] Instructions to build and run from source
[ ] Host a prebuilt ssc from the Playmint/Socket fork
[ ] Licensing info
[ ] Guidance for contributors

To build and run from source

[!WARNING] building ssc has platform specific dependencies that we don't document, but we hope to provide a prebuilt install package in future.

build ssc from the playmint-next branch of playmint/socket

macos:
rm -rf build; ./bin/clean.sh && NO_IOS=1 NO_ANDROID=1 VERBOSE=1 ./bin/install.sh

windows:
rm -force .\build\ ; .\bin\install.ps1 -verbose

then ...

run pnpm i to install stuff
run pnpm dev to run dev build with hmr or npm start to run dev build close to prod
run pnpm build to build prod (but you will need an apple id setup - the github action does this for you