Appreciate the support and kind words. Yeah I was thinking of the "WordPress" way to do things the whole time so it really was a integrated solution with the platform. Makes running it on any WP site easy to do.

Hey WP Folks, wanted to share something I've been building for the past four years that I think will genuinely surprise some of you.

Orbem Studio is a WordPress plugin that turns any WordPress site into a browser game engine. Games built with it run as standard WordPress pages at their own URL. No canvas element, no external game libraries, no JavaScript frameworks. Just WordPress custom post types, meta fields, and a front end rendering system built entirely on the DOM.

Here's what that means in practice. You install the plugin, set a page as your game page, and start creating game assets through the WordPress dashboard, characters, areas, items, enemies, NPCs, missions, cutscenes. Each one is a custom post type with meta fields that define its behavior. The engine reads those fields and handles movement, collision, combat, dialogue, and progression on the front end.

Games support top down and side scrolling movement, NPC dialogue, branching missions, inventory, combat systems, cutscenes, boss fights, and more. All configured through the dashboard without writing a single line of code.

The hosted version at orbem.studio extends this with a front end builder so you can create and place assets without ever leaving the game itself. There's also a built in pixel art tool called Orbem Studio Paint that saves directly to the media library.

A few things that might interest the community. The entire game state runs through WordPress custom post types and user meta. Multiplayer is proven working through WebSockets (not available yet). The export and import system packages an entire game including all assets and images into a single JSON file that can be imported to any other Orbem Studio install.

Free plugin is on WordPress.org. Hosted platform is at orbem.studio.

Would love to hear what the WP community thinks about this approach, especially the no canvas DOM based architecture since that tends to surprise developers the most.

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