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2026-08-26 16:20:15 CEST

Spritely office hours, today (Wednesday, August 26th) at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! Come talk to us about what we're up to, tell us how you're using Spritely tech, and ask questions! https://community.spritely.institute/t/next-office-hours-on-8-26/845

2025-01-07 21:55:42 CET

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We'll talk more in the coming days and weeks about other demos we've used, including more modifications to Terminal Phase, that have shown off specific parts of Spritely's tech.
But you can play many of these games today! Many in your browser! https://spritely.institute/arcade/

2025-01-07 21:53:27 CET

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Terminal Phase has also been a great testbed and demo for all our tech. For example, Goblins supports transactionality and time-travel features. But that's hard to understand!
But here's a video of time travel in Terminal Phase! *No* gameplay code changes were made to enable time travel! The game was fully programmed, and then in retrospect @npub1urx…v0z4 realized that time travel support was already there, and so simply spent an hour wiring up what was already there to the GUI so users could see.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/789/046/746/673/623/original/21f23ea38e13cbbb.mp4

2025-01-07 21:48:58 CET

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Spritely's tech is a big lift. Goblins is a distributed programming environment! It's not a trivial thing to design.
For this reason, the first serious program testing and using Goblins' tech was Terminal Phase, a space shooter that runs in a developer terminal!
It was a robust test on its own!
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/789/037/711/931/397/original/80789fda2814698f.mp4

2025-01-07 21:40:42 CET

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The connections to games go back even further! It's well known that "Spacewar!" was one of the first video games.
Porting "Spacewar!" and also authoring Space Travel was an important part of the history of Unix as well.
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/spacetravel.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)