Slay the Spire 2: Atmosphere edition

Lately I've been thinking about PESOS, the Indieweb's approach to owning your own data on platforms that don't support it. "Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate to your Own Site."

I did a great job last week of not building one idea that snuck into my brain, but another crept in and I succumbed…

What if Slay the Spire 2, the outrageously fun deck-builder/rogue-like game from @megacrit.com, published the details of your games ("runs") to your Atmosphere account?

"We can just do things, together" is a common refrain among atproto developers (as we call ourselves), and this experiment definitely stood on the shoulders of giants:

• Slay the Spire 2 uses @godotengine.org, so modding is pretty easy and lots of folks have talked about how
• Publishing to your Atmosphere account (where your Bluesky posts, Tangled source code, Leaflet posts like this, and much more lives) is easy; @atproto.com has great documentation
• The excellent @cartridge.dev exists as a deep games database with a data model I can hook right into
• You can host websites directly from your Atmosphere account with @wisp.place
• And looking up any StS2 runs an account has posted, no matter where their account lives, is easy thanks to @microcosm.blue's Slingshot

So I had a crack at it! I learned a lot about developing game mods and writing C# from Claude (first time with both for me) but I've ended up in a place I'm very happy with as an experiment.

1. 🧑‍💻 Download the mod or the installer (installers on the site, details on Github)
2. 🔑 Get an app password & configure the installer/your config.json
3. 🎮 Play!
4. 🤩 Visit my site to see your run (you can see mine here)

That's it! The data is yours, and in your Atmosphere account. If you move providers (Bluesky -> Eurosky anyone?) it'll move with you and Just Work™.

You can even build your own site that's better than mine, and it'll work with everyone's StS2 runs, automagically. Hell, @megacrit.com could build an official one & it'd be instantly compatible!

The joy of building in the Atmosphere ☺️ What do you think? What would you add?