create-multiplayer-game

Create a multiplayer web game in seconds 👾🚀

Scaffolding Your First Web Game Project

Compatibility Note: create-multiplayer-game requires Node.js version 21+.

With NPM:

$ npx create-multiplayer-game@latest

Then follow the prompts!

You can also directly specify the project name and the template you want to use via additional command line options. For example, to scaffold a Vite + React project, run:

# npm 7+, extra double-dash is needed:
npm exec create-multiplayer-game@latest my-awesome-game --template vite-react-ts

Currently supported template presets include:

• vite-react-ts
• next-ts
• vite-react-ts-premium (coming soon)
• Some community-driven templates

You can use . for the project name to scaffold in the current directory.

Community Templates

create-multiplayer-game is a tool to quickly start a multiplayer web game project from a basic template for popular frameworks. Check out Awesome Playroom for community maintained templates that include other tools or target different frameworks. You can use a tool like degit to scaffold your project with one of the templates.

npx degit user/project my-project
cd my-project

npm install
npm run dev

If the project uses main as the default branch, suffix the project repo with #main

npx degit user/project#main my-project