Marketing site · working name
Retrobox is being built to help you describe retro gameplay, revise it in chat, and publish to your own web and mobile console library. The console is software, not specialist hardware.
Early stage. This page does not sign you in, generate a game, or publish one.
Planned workflow
Preview, an accepted review, and publication are different stages. None of them runs on this website.
Say the gameplay in ordinary language. A project chat is the planned place to do that.
A preview you can play is planned. Finishing a generation is not the same as publishing a game.
Change a rule and try again in the same conversation.
Looking at what changed, and accepting it before it joins the shared version, is planned. This page does not show a diff.
A personal library of published versions is planned. A preview and a published game are different stages.
A published game is meant to stay playable in the browser after the coding session stops. That split is planned, not switched on here.
Remixing an existing game is not offered. No starter catalogue is available.
Selected audiences
Courses
Students would describe rules, playtest a revision, and show what they made. A course pilot is only under discussion. This site has no school customer, teacher dashboard, or student-data setup.
Enthusiasts
Start from your own words, revise in chat, and aim for a personal library on a web and mobile console. Remixing an existing game is not offered. You cannot start a game from this page.
Programmers
The plan is to inspect changes, keep experiments separate, and integrate only after you accept them. A GitHub repository is not meant to be required. There is no technical demo to open here.
Concept preview
The play surface is meant to live in the browser, on a computer or a phone. Move the figure below. It is an original concept preview, not a recorded builder demo and not a generated game.
Select the picture, then use the left and right arrow keys to move the figure. Space or the up arrow hops. The buttons below do the same thing. Concept preview only: not a recorded demo and not a game made by the builder.
Figure on step 3 of 11. On the ground.
No. The console is software: a play surface in a current browser. There is no cartridge, handheld or other kit to buy.
The console is intended for desktop and mobile browsers. This marketing page adjusts to a narrow screen. The product itself is still a prototype, so this site is not the player.
No. Nothing on this page calls a model, saves a project, or signs you in. The moving figure is an original illustration.
Not from this page. Remixing depends on rights and event clearance, and no starter catalogue is offered.
This marketing site, and a separate builder shell for projects and chat. Accounts, live generation, review, publishing and a personal library are planned. They are not switched on here.