After some battles with the AI overlords and vetting it for a few weeks I’m happy to announce the release of the “MakeCode Games” site.
I realize there are piles of sites out there that offer tools, extensions and games listings but I wanted to really try my hand at it. This feeds off the forums and uses combined likes + clicks to drive which games are “hot” and “trending”.
The extensions area is still in beta, I’m not sure I like how it’s worked out but expect updates there soon enough. I know I’ve learned a ton already just by being able to quickly find what each extension actually contains and what problems they solve (without having to guess and install first, or try to read through the github repo manually). More updates on that area coming soon.
The other area around compiling your games is handy for creating “real” executables at least for Linux. In theory the Windows one works as well but that just might be my bot-swarm lying to me.
I’m happy to add/remove things as requested. Feedback is always welcome!
hey whys it say banana bonanza by @GoObErsandwichdude64 !? ohh he made that version he help me with that it should you guys should add original creator: cause a lot of people make a version of the game with fixed code to help! they should update it to that. thanks if you do it would make me happy!
To clarify how this works:
About every few hours I have a batch process that reads new posts and then traces back up that thread to find any new games (games it hasn’t yet ingested and added to the database).
This means if your game is missing, it was too old for my initial grab and if you reply to your older game it’ll get caught up and added to the list automatically.
Game dates are by when they are posted, not when they are found.
Game Jams have a special priority, so participate in the official game jams!
“Clicks” and emoji reactions in the forum drive the hot/trending categories. Also clicking the game in Makecode Games also adds to that (so using the site isn’t a lost click).
I really hope this inspires everyone! I know I’ve found new games and old gems (and the extensions that I knew nothing about).
The games are attributed to the poster the first time they are ingested. This means it could be a later post with the same link by a different person “first time I saw this game, add it to the library”. The parser works backwards too since it stops the instant it finds one that it already saw (to ease the amount of posts it has to parse out)
I can manually update it if you’d like. Just post a link to your original post of the game and I’ll adjust it.
Fun thing is, since you share the link here the ingestion will pick this up . So hopefully if things are working it’ll have this game loaded in a few hours.
The system can’t tell the difference between ACTUAL games, the ID is the game it uses to determine a different game. There’s really no better way to distinguish unique games.
So your game is in there, just with a mountain of others!
. So hopefully if things are working it’ll have this game loaded in a few hours.
