Gallery

Every clip below is a few seconds of real play: two or more browsers in one room on the demo server, filmed by scripts/record-gallery.ts. Each game is one HTML file in examples/games/.

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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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Loop Dash

up to 8 players

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

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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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Crystal Clash

up to 10, 2 teams players

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

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Torchlight Crawl

up to 4 players

Clear five waves together. The host runs the monsters, the loot and the score.

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Deep Delve

up to 4 players

A co-op crawler that saves your level, gold and gear between sessions.

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Tag

up to 8 players

The smallest real game: one player is it, everyone else runs.

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Chess

2 + watchers players

Full rules and clocks, checked by the host. Everyone else in the room watches.

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Run them

npm install tickcli ws three phaser pixi.js   # the engines are only needed for their examples
npx tickcli node_modules/tickcli/examples/games

Open a game in two browser windows (or send the link to a friend) to play together.

What each one shows

Spotlight: Star Squad, a bigger game

space-squad.html, up to 4 players. A co-op side-scroller written as a folder of plain scripts (examples/space-squad/: art, audio, levels, rules, HUD) and bundled into the one page the server plays by node scripts/bundle-game.ts examples/space-squad examples/games/space-squad.html. The host runs the aliens, bosses and weather and decides trap damage (traps move on the shared clock, so they cost no traffic); each player shares only their hero’s position, pose and class. Heroes who join a planet already under way drop in next to a teammate.

Engine demos

Sky Duel: Phaser air shooter

sky-duel.html, 1 to 8 pilots. Phaser draws, moves and reads the keys; tickcli runs headless: the lobby over the page, the host’s drones and score. Drones are shared state the host moves (they glide smoothly on every screen); lasers are g.shoot() shots that every screen moves by itself; explosions are g.fx() effects. Textures are drawn in code, no image files.

Gem Run 3D: three.js

arena3d.html, 1 to 8 players. Game({context: "webgl"}) keeps the shell’s bar, screens and touch pad while three.js draws. Each player shares a position and a quaternion (TickcliThree.pose); others turn smoothly as one rotation. The host spins the gem with a quaternion too.

Neon Paint: PixiJS, draw together

neon-paint.html, 1 to 8 people. Strokes travel as effects (g.fx, sent once, never stored) and fade after 8 seconds; pens are each player’s own state, shown with g.sync. A small live-drawing toy, not a document editor: see when to use tickcli.

Own Engine: your own loop

own-engine.html: a plain canvas and requestAnimationFrame, the shape of any engine. Two marked lines are the whole room: g.me.set(...) and g.sync(...).

Shell games

Chess

chess.html: two seats, everyone else watches. A player asks the host to move (g.act("move", ...)); the host checks the full rules (check, castling, en passant, promotion) and runs the clocks.

More in the folder

File	Shows
tag.html	the smallest real game: players, host rules, timers
tictactoe.html	seats and turns
cup.html	a knockout tournament over a room
race.html	a world bigger than the screen, a camera, a 3-2-1 start
shooter.html	shots and hits with the plain shell
arena.html	two teams, minions and towers
dungeon.html, delve.html	co-op crawlers with saved profiles and worlds