Welcome to the OpenBOR-WASM repository! This project provides an unofficial WebAssembly port of OpenBOR (Build 4.0, Revision 7533) to bring your OpenBOR games to the web. The repository includes the wasm build of the engine, the Super Doginals game as an example and guides you through the steps needed to launch your own OpenBOR game as a web app OR as a "Doginals inscription".
- Project Overview
- Getting Started
- Super Doginals Game
- Using OpenBOR-WASM
- Configuring your game
- OpenBOR License
- Super Doginals Asset License
- Additional Resources
- Additional Notes
This project is a full port and pre-compiled WASM of the OpenBOR 4.0 engine, allowing you to run OpenBOR games directly in a browser, making them compatible with pcs, macs, mobiles and tablets. While our port is not an official OpenBOR release, it serves as a convenient way to provide access to your OpenBOR game on the web.
Changes list compared to OpenBOR 4.0 build 7533 is available here.
OpenBOR WASM can be deployed on any web server and served as a standard HTML/JavaScript page. We have also inscribed it as a Doginal on Dogecoin. If you're unfamiliar with Doginals or are only interested in standard web usage, you can ignore any mentions of Doginals in this repository.
Links to official OpenBOR resources:
Super Doginals is our own OpenBOR game that runs very well with this WASM build of OpenBOR engine. You can play it directly as a doginal by looking for its inscription ID 9653cfcfe14a00a7203137513827a218e9a468214d2ec92205582aa8814d62d8i0 on any doginals explorer.
For convenience, here’s a direct link to our game as a Doginal on Doggy.market: https://cdn.doggy.market/content/9653cfcfe14a00a7203137513827a218e9a468214d2ec92205582aa8814d62d8i0
Just like Super Doginals, you can use our OpenBOR port for any of your OpenBOR games.
Feel free to use our game assets to create your own projects, please check Super Doginals game License.
Contributions to improve our game and its assets are very welcome and we would gladly inscribe a new version in the near future!
- Knowledge of OpenBOR games development (refer to OpenBOR resources).
- Your OpenBOR game assets, either as
.zip(recommended) or.pakfiles. - Optional: Know how to inscribe doginals if you want to deploy doginal games.
You can run your own game in one of two ways:
- As a normal web application — Suitable if you want to deploy your game on any webserver.
- As a doginals inscription — Specially prepared to make your game a doginal, leveraging on-chain digital assets.
- Clone or download this repository.
- Configure game.html (instructions below).
- Optional: Adapt mobile.js, game.css, buttons.zip if you want a different mobile overlay or need to configure more mobile buttons in your game.
- Open
game.htmlin a browser to run your game.
We provide the inscriptions IDs of the files already written as doginals and our own game "Super doginals" as reference. You should inscribe your own assets / modifications by yourself (how to inscribe doginals is out of the scope of this repo).
- Configure game.html (instructions below) with the inscriptions IDs of your game assets or modified files if any.
- Inscribe game.html as a doginal inscription.
- Play on any doginal explorer with your game.html inscription ID
Note: Inscribing large content is costly and not recommended. Keep your Doginals games lightweight.
To adapt game.html for your game:
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Update Game Title:
<title>Your Game Name</title>
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Set Asset Paths:
- Replace
assetsPaths: [contentPath + 'game.zip']with your game’s assets files or doginals inscription Id. Multiple.zipfiles or inscriptions Ids can be listed for patching; content will be added / overwritten in the order listed.
- Replace
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Set Asset Type:
- Set
assetType: 'zip'for.zipassets (recommended for better compression and flexibility). - Set
assetType: 'pak'if using a single.pakfile. Note: You can only provide a single.pakfile (.pak is the standard assets packaging in OpenBOR, but not a necessity).
- Set
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Configure Canvas Resolution:
- Set
baseWidthandbaseHeightto match your game’s base resolution, e.g.:baseWidth: 320, baseHeight: 240,
- Set
Note: Essentially, the only mandatory changes you need to make are specifying your game title and the path to your game.zip. You can also build on top of our game by adding your modifications as additional .zip files or doginal IDs.
Tip: Using
.zipover.pakis encouraged as it allows asset patching for enhanced flexibility. This is especially useful for avoiding the need to reinscribe all your assets as Doginals, making them easily reusable and shareable.
For the asset pack, we recommend zipping both the data folder of your OpenBOR game but also the Saves folder which contains default configuration files for your game (e.g., pre-configured game controllers or video options). Your configuration .cfg file name should match the game name you set here: <title>Your Game Name</title>.
Note:
main.jsautomatically resizes the game canvas to fit your device's viewport, adjusting based on your game’s resolution with scaling factors that try to preserve pixel art quality.
This project complies with the OpenBOR license, available here.
When distributing games created with this port, please mention something like "Powered by OpenBOR" in your game and include its license (included in OpenBOR.zip).
We encourage you to reuse our Super Doginals game assets, which are licensed under CC BY 4.0. Feel free to improve, add content or make your own games with it. Please credit us (@minidogeart) when reusing our work.
Important mention, if you intend to use Mini Doge-branded assets (such as mini doge characters), you must first seek our approval by sending a DM on X to @minidogeart, especially for commercial games. Using our assets for financial scams or harmful content is strictly forbidden.
You can find more license info here.
For more guidance on creating and customizing your OpenBOR games, refer to:
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Common sense tip: Make sure you do not publish copyrighted content without consent, especially if your inscribe it as doginals.
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The code for our OpenBOR WASM port is not included in this repository, as it is intended solely to demonstrate how to use the wasm build. We may provide the source code in the future, but we would prefer to see instead an official port supported in OpenBOR repository to keep the engine code centralized, and will first try to request official WASM support there.
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When making your own game, it would be more efficient to test it first with official OpenBOR 4.0 to avoid zipping your assets everytime. Just keep in mind our few fixes and additions mentioned here and test with this port only major modifications to your game.
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Please report here only bugs that would be specific to our build. Bugs that also exists in official OpenBOR 4.0 should be reported in official the OpenBOR repo.
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As of today, iPhones do not support programmable fullscreen resolution buttons. The fullscreen button on mobile will only work on other devices. However, users can work around this by manually setting the game to fullscreen.
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The game should perform well on most modern devices.
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Just like the original OpenBOR license, we do not provide any warranty of any kind for using this software.
Enjoy building your own game!