Poke
Poke, a React Native for Web game prototype on Expo with colony artwork, one of my react-native-games experiments.
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- LEVEL
- 6
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- 0
- YEARS
- 2018–2018
React Native For Web, Colonies
In June 2018 I was trying to build games in React Native and run them in a browser through React Native for Web: same components on a phone and on a desktop, one codebase, no engine.
Poke was one of those experiments. Expo 27, about two weeks of work, built around colony artwork. Something growing, something placed, something you tap.
I wanted to see how far React Native could go for games, since it doesn't have a scene graph or sprite batching and every frame goes through a bridge built for buttons and lists. I tried it three times that summer: Poke in June, coup in July, Creature Summoner in August, all on Expo 27 and each done in a few weeks. It didn't get very far.