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birb.houseBuilding the Future of Games on ATProto | Birbhouse GamesGame platforms hold too much power over developers. We want to change that by decentralizing games with ATProto — devs own their data, players own their progress, and no payment processor can take it ...

Trezy@trezy.codes

I've gotten this question from a lot of #GameDev: "How can I, a game developer, make use of ATProto in my games?" So I wrote an article to address my work in a way that makes more sense for game developers, especially those that don't know (or care) about ATProto.

Edward Newton

@ewords.bsky.social

Hi hi, quick question: Who would host and/or manage the linkages between the ATProto data and the existing game platforms? Would that be a paid service?

18/1/26, 5:55 pm0 reposts1 like

It depends what link you're referring to. Data hosting is up to the game owner - it lives in their PDS, which can be self-hosted or use providers like Bluesky. No separate hosting fee from us for the lexicons/infrastructure.

For platform connections (Steam, Epic Games Store, etc.): ideally platforms implement ATProto support themselves. We might build a sync service as a bridge initially, but the primary goal is getting platforms to adopt it directly.

Full transparency: I recognize we're currently adding another platform to manage. But the vision is to be the ONE place that eventually reduces the total. As platforms migrate to ATProto, you'd update data once rather than managing it separately everywhere.

Edward Newton

@ewords.bsky.social

Honestly this isn't that crazy, if the idea isn't to sort of "harness" everyone else's platforms into one space. Could be really helpful. I'm assuming it'll be released open source, same as ATProto?