QBAT: Bare minimum AT Proto game
made vibe coded a thing this afternoon:
QBAT - Grid Jumping Game
Collect red apples to gain more moves. Reach the golden goal to win!
It's a turn based puzzle game! The details of the game itself aren't so important, as it was mostly an excuse to have something to attach ATProto to.
The main idea was for you to be able to create a puzzle, and store it on your PDS. They are also randomly generated but that's not very fleshed out.
Game text format looks like this:
🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱
🧱🟢🍎🔵🟢🍎🧱🧱
🧱🟢🍎🍎🟢🟢🧱🧱
🧱🟢🧱🍎🟢🧱🟢🧱
🧱🟢🟢🧱🧱🟢🍎🧱
🧱🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🧱🧱
🧱🧱🟢🟢🧱🟢🏆🧱
🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱Records look like this:
{
"uri": "at://did:plc:oxdlsmnvpk2riyyuvq5jtdkd/run.val.qbat.game.v1/3lyy3mmgq562m",
"cid": "bafyreih3p7n23vgswpaq3vayp4snldg3bfpnar7zxdy673572xeeqgjkbe",
"value": {
"name": "something",
"$type": "run.val.qbat.game.v1",
"gameText": "🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱\n🧱🟢🟢🟢🟢🧱🍎🧱\n🧱🟢🧱🧱🟢🟢🟢🧱\n🧱🟢🧱🟢🟢🟢🧱🧱\n🧱🟢🧱🟢🟢🟢🟢🧱\n🧱🟢🍎🟢🧱🟢🧱🧱\n🧱🟢🧱🧱🟢🟢🔵🧱\n🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱",
"createdAt": "2025-09-16T19:47:49.649Z"
}
}Features:
- Play a game
- Share/load a game via text
- Share/load a game via url
- Save/load games to/from a PDS
- Post your results to BlueSky
Social sharing looks like this:
Future ideas
- Make a feed of created games
- High scores (prior work @baileytownsend.dev's 2048.blue)
- WASM client stored in a blob?? 👀
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