P2P Games

P2P Games lets you play retro arcade games directly with another user. Games run in real-time over WebRTC DataChannel — no server relay, minimal latency. 15 base games with 20 additional mode variants across action, sports, racing, and co-op genres.

Starting a Game

/game <nickname>

This creates a game session and sends an invite via PM. The target user clicks the link to join the game lobby.

Game Lobby

The lobby is where both players meet before starting a game. You can:

• Chat with your opponent
• Browse and select from 35 available games across 15 families
• Wait for your opponent to accept or decline

Game selection requires bilateral consent — one player picks a game, the other must accept before it starts.

Available Games

• Hex Pong — Cyberpunk Pong, first to 11 (win by 2)
• Light Trails — Neon grid trail race, trap your opponent
• Hex Warlords — Versus Breakout castle battle, last king standing
• Hex Boxing — Top-down boxing, distance-based scoring, first to KO
• Pixel Tanks — Tank combat in destructible mazes, best of 3 rounds
• Star Duel — Newtonian space combat with wraparound arena
  • Gravity Well — Central star pulls ships into orbital trajectories
  • Debris Field — 8 asteroids block missiles and kill ships
• Block Breakers — Cooperative Breakout with two paddles
• Hex Outlaw — Western duel across a cactus obstacle
  • Ricochet — Bullets bounce off walls at 30-degree angles
  • Stagecoach — Moving stagecoach blocks shots
  • No Man's Land — Open field, full horizontal movement
• Hex Hockey — Ice hockey with AI goalies, 3 periods
  • Blitz — 1 period, faster puck, 80% tackle success
  • Showdown — No timer, first to 5 goals, escalating puck speed
• Hex Tennis — Full set with deuce, advantage, tiebreak
  • Quick Match — First to 3 games wins
  • Sudden Death — Every point wins a game, first to 6
• Hex Enduro — Pseudo-3D racing with weather cycle, best of 3 days
  • Night Race — Permanent darkness with fog bursts
  • Sprint — 90-second daylight sprint, no weather
• Hex Raid — River Raid for two, 10 sections with mines and fuel
  • Pacifist — No mines, pure skill competition
  • Blitz — 5 sections, narrow river, faster mines
• Hex Invaders — Split-screen Space Invaders with alien drops
  • Co-op — Shared screen, fight waves together
  • Blitz — Instant drops, 5 waves of chaos
• Hex Frost — Arctic igloo construction race on floating ice
  • Blizzard — 1 epic round, 20-piece igloo, all enemies
  • Peaceful — No block stealing, pure construction race
• Hex Skiing — Alpine descent through obstacles, outrun the avalanche
  • Escape — Infinite descent, ever-accelerating avalanche
  • Clean Run — No avalanche, pure time trial

Architecture

The session creator acts as host and runs the game loop at ~60fps. The peer sends keyboard inputs via DataChannel and receives game state snapshots. This keeps both players in sync with minimal bandwidth.

Timeouts

Pending sessions expire in 5 minutes. The lobby expires after 15 minutes of inactivity (with a warning at 10 minutes).

See Also

/game · P2P Sessions · Solo Arcade