BlazorGame is a small proof-of-concept project to investigate the feasability of Blazor-based C# game development.
A quick build is hosted here. Once the black square appears, click inside the square to spawn a new sprite.
This project relies heavily on the work done in Blazor Canvas. However, as this has not been updated for a while, I have included (an updated version of) it as part of this project.
Once/if BlazorCanvas gets an update, this project will be updated to support the NuGet.
Not much, but some basics and essentials that are nice to have running for anyone looking to do games:
- Opens a re-sizable Canvas.
- Demonstrates calling into JS from WASM, and calling back to C# from WASM.
- Hooks up requestAnimationFrame
- Hooks up eventlistener for mouse clicks
- Renders an object (using WebGL) when you click inside the Canvas.
- Builds against the release version of Blazor WebAssembly (3.2.0) and .NET Core SDK (3.1.300 or later).
- "Sprites" are rendered by updating the vertices of all sprites each frame. I realize this is not ideal, but it works for this test.
- texImage2D support in BlazorCanvas is broken, so the textures is loaded through a JS interop call to loadTexture.
- The GarbageCollector is very busy. Either I may be doing something wrong, or there is room for improvement.
Please feel free to use / learn from this code, open issues, fix bugs or provide feedback.
If you want to get in touch, reach me at thomasn@vanillapp.com