Discord Opens Up To Games and Apps Embedded In Its Chat App (theverge.com) 7
Tom Warren reports via The Verge: Discord will soon allow developers to build new games and apps that can be used directly in its chat app. A selection of minigames and apps have been available to Discord users for months now, but starting March 18th, all Discord developers will get access to a new Embedded App SDK that lets them build these special embedded apps. Discord has used its Activities feature to enable apps like YouTube, promote minigames like poker, and even encourage users to play with a shared whiteboard experience. These apps all appear as an embedded iframe inside Discord, but they've been limited to select developers so far.
The SDK will open up this Activities section of Discord to many more developers, so we're bound to see a lot more minigames that can be played directly inside Discord chats. [...] Discord is also experimenting with a way to allow users to add apps to their accounts so they roam across servers. Developers will be able to enable their apps for accounts, and the experiment will launch alongside the app SDK on March 18th. Discord is also bringing back its app pitches, where developers can pitch prototype app ideas and secure up to $30,000 in funding.
The SDK will open up this Activities section of Discord to many more developers, so we're bound to see a lot more minigames that can be played directly inside Discord chats. [...] Discord is also experimenting with a way to allow users to add apps to their accounts so they roam across servers. Developers will be able to enable their apps for accounts, and the experiment will launch alongside the app SDK on March 18th. Discord is also bringing back its app pitches, where developers can pitch prototype app ideas and secure up to $30,000 in funding.
Yo Dawg... (Score:2)
Apps within apps.
Where is the appy-appers guy when you need him?
Re: (Score:2)
We heard you like games so we put a game in your game so you can game while you game.
Those walled gardeners will be coming... (Score:2)
Sounds Familiar (Score:3)
Wasn't all that long ago we had a game platform for the web. Ran in a browser. Had a really sophisticated IDE. World-class programming language. Billions of dollars in market value. Installed on something like 600 million PCs. What was that thing called?
Oh yeah. Flash. We threw it and about a million jobs overboard for no reason. They said HTML5 was going to replace it.
It didn't.
Re: (Score:2)
This really hurt my soul, I invested so much time into developing games & apps in flash for it to disappear overnight. Lesson learned, don't specialize in one technology.
JWZ email something something (Score:2)
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