We created some games using React. It was surprisingly easy, which got us wondering why more people weren’t doing it. So we decided to host a “React Jam” event to encourage React devs to try their hand at building games!<p>React Jam aims to be a first-of-its-kind online event where React devs create a game in 10 days. We’ve gotten some amazing judges/sponsors and we’re really excited to see how the React + game dev communities will respond to our event.<p>More broadly, our hope is that React Jam will help millions of React developers realize that it's quite easy to create their first game using a familiar framework. Building games with React might sound crazy / suboptimal, but React Native seemed ridiculous a decade ago and is now ubiquitous. We think the same could happen with games too!<p>Would you build a game using React? Why / why not?
I know of at least one game on Steam that was built on React… because I made it :)<p>It worked great for a text-based programming game, but I’m sure more imaginative people can apply React to other genres.<p>I did have one big complaint, however: basing the whole game on React meant I was mixing state and UI together, so when I later wanted to port the game to the terminal, I had pretty much painted myself into a corner.
VentureBeat also just published an article on React Jam:
<a href="https://venturebeat.com/games/react-announces-its-first-game-jam-for-late-july/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://venturebeat.com/games/react-announces-its-first-game...</a>