Does Discourse support any online multiplayer mini-games (e.g., Go, Gomoku, chess)?

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Hi everyone,

I’m wondering whether Discourse currently supports any kind of online multiplayer mini-games that forum members can play together (for example: Go/Weiqi, Gomoku, simple board games, etc.).

I know Discourse already has real-time chat, so I’m curious whether there are:

  • existing plugins that provide interactive games, or

  • recommended ways to embed small HTML5/Web games (iframe, theme components), or

  • examples of communities that have implemented something similar.

I’m mainly interested in simple two-player games like Go or Gomoku, where two forum users can create a room and play inside a topic or page.

Any suggestions, experience, or plugin links would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

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Not that I recall.

However you might be able to use AI to make one? :thinking:

See:

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Thank you for your reply

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Discourse Chatbot :robot:
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I’d be interested in this too, especially for simple games like Gomoku or chess. An iframe or lightweight plugin sounds like it could work well without trying to build the whole game system into Discourse.

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I am also interested; it can offer the human feeling that everyone wants to keep in our AI-days.

There is something published that I have pending to test. It looks great, and perhaps you want to try it as well:

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There’s Discourse Frotz 🧙, but that’s not multiplayer, unfortunately.