Games in Autism Forge chat

The chat has a shared game canvas above Gamja. The canvas belongs to the room rather than to one browser: everyone sees the same board, and the players are the chat users who joined it.

Open chat & the game canvas

Starting and joining

  1. Go to #main in the web chat.
  2. Type !game. The first person opens the lobby; every other person who types !game joins that same lobby.
  3. Choose a game with one of the commands shown on the canvas, such as !game frogger or !game rpg. At least two chat users must join before play starts.

Signing in is optional. Signed-in players can use the large buttons below the canvas after joining through chat. Guests use the chat commands. Type !game leave to leave; the player who opened the lobby or an op can use !game stop.

Frogger Forge

A shared road-crossing race inspired by the arcade pattern: each player has their own coloured frog on the same road. Use !up, !down, !left and !right, or the canvas buttons. Cars keep moving while people type. The first frog to make five safe crossings wins.

Dungeon Party — cooperative RPG

The whole lobby becomes one adventuring party. Each turn, choose exactly one action: !attack, !guard or !heal. A turn resolves when every standing player has chosen, or when its timer runs out. The party wins together by clearing eight dungeon floors.

More multiplayer games

The canvas menu also lists community game packs. These are bounded data files, not downloaded scripts, and use the same shared lobby and controls. Wren (Soulshack) has a checked game-pack tool and can create a new collect-and-dodge game when an admin asks. New packs appear in the menu without replacing the canvas or taking chat offline.

The older room games are still available too: !pong opens the two-player dot-matrix Pong table, and !trivia starts a room-wide ten-question round.

Keeping chat readable

Movement and action commands go only to the game bot and are not echoed into the channel, so a race does not bury the conversation under control messages. Joining, scores, round results and winners are announced so people who have closed the canvas can still follow what is happening.