Fedi Games

Fedi-Games is a simple framework to build games for the Fediverse using the ActivityPub protocol.

Fedi Game instances:

• games.rerere.org

Configuration

Fedi Games is configured via environment variables. These configurations should be set otherwise defaults for local development are used.

Example:

FEDI_GAMES_HOST=games.rerere.org
FEDI_GAMES_PROTOCOL=https
DATABASE_URL=/path/to/sqlite.db
MEDIA_PATH=/path/to/media/

Development

For development an air configurations is provided and the project can be started with air to run the server with live reload.

Otherwise use:

go run github.com/H4kor/fedi-games/cmd

The server will run on http://localhost:4040. In local development (when the FEDI_GAMES_HOST env var is not set or inlcudes "localhost") no messages will be send to other servers of the fediverse.

Building a game

Every game has to implement the games.Game interface. The NewState() function must return a pointer to a JSON serializable struct. The state doesn't have to be initialized. On the first message for a new game the game will be passed a zero valued instance of the struct.

The OnMsg function will be called for each message sent to the game. It must return:

• the updated state of the game
• a games.GameReply object to be send as Note via ActivityPub
• an error if the message could not be processed. An error must not be returned for user input errors. Sent a message to the player instead

Adding images and attachments

To add images or other attachments to a reply the media service should be used. By calling internal.StoreMedia you can store a blob of data, which will be served on the media route. This can be added as an attachment to the GameReply object.

Example:

imgUrl, err := internal.StoreMedia(buffer.Bytes(), "png")
reply := games.GameReply{
    Attachments: []games.GameAttachment{
        {
            Url:       imgUrl,
            MediaType: "image/png",
        },
    },
}