tickcli

Live rooms for browser games. Write the game in one HTML file; tickcli adds the lobby, invite links, reconnects and smooth movement on every screen. Works with its own tiny shell, three.js, Phaser, PixiJS or your own loop.

Quick start See the gallery

Real games, playing live

Each clip is a few seconds of real play in one room. All 11 games

built-in shellSpotlight

Star Squad: Alien Blitz

up to 4 players

A co-op side-scroller: six heroes with their own skills and spells, five planets with traps, weather and a boss each. Made as a folder of scripts, bundled into one page.

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three.js

Gem Run 3D

up to 8 players

Race to the spinning gem on a neon disc. Positions and rotations ease smoothly on every screen.

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Phaser

Sky Duel

up to 8 players

Fly low, shoot the drones, dodge them. Phaser runs the game; tickcli runs the room.

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built-in shell

Loop Dash

up to 8 players

Three laps round a loop with a camera that follows your car and a 3-2-1 start.

Run it Source

built-in shell

Star Skirmish

up to 8 players

Turn, thrust, fire. Shots are sent once and fly by themselves on every screen.

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PixiJS

Neon Paint

up to 8 players

Draw on one wall together. Every stroke glows in your colour and fades after 8 seconds.

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built-in shell

Crystal Clash

up to 10, 2 teams players

Two teams, waves of minions, one crystal each. Break theirs first.

Run it Source

npm install tickcli ws
npx tickcli ./games        # every .html file in ./games gets live rooms

No game code on the server

One player’s browser (the host) runs the rules. The hub keeps who is in the room, the shared state, the order of changes and the limits. A new game never needs a deploy.

Any engine

The built-in shell for one-file games, context: "webgl" for three.js, and headless: true for engines that run their own loop: Phaser, PixiJS, Babylon.js, Kaplay.

Smooth on every screen

Others are drawn a little in the past and eased between updates: positions, angles the short way round, and 3D rotations as quaternions.

Party, co-op and board games

Party and co-op games, races, board games with people watching, team battles, dungeon crawlers, knockout tournaments, on a computer or a phone.

Two lines in your engine

const g = Game({ headless: true, multiplayer: { max: 8, player: { x: [0, 800], y: [0, 600] } } });

// in your engine's update, once a frame:
if (g.state === "playing") g.me.set({ x: hero.x, y: hero.y });
g.sync(make, place, remove);   // one sprite per other player, eased

Tutorial: your first multiplayer game

Tutorial: a 3D game with three.js

Tutorial: bring your own engine (Phaser)

Every option and call