Creating the Dapr game

I made another retro game! This time it's a Dapr inspired game that I made for people new to Dapr. The game was first shown at KubeCon Paris 2024 at the Diagrid booth (see this post) but the game is now available for everyone to play online at itch.io! 🎉

The player needs to avoid rogue messages, collect Dapr coins and the Dapr hat, in order to get to the development team and share their Dapr knowledge. The game has an educational element because after a level is completed some Dapr information is shared with the player.

I made the game with Pico8, a fantasy game console for making, sharing, and playing retro games. I had a lot of fun drawing all the sprites, like the computers and the groups of developers, designing the sound effects, and composing the music. The gameplay is very similar to the Azure Functions game, but I added some new gameplay features, such as the gray/blue powerlines to limit player movement once the Dapr hat is collected. At the moment the game consists of 3 levels, but I will add a couple more over time.

If you have the Pico8 software, you can download this png file below and play the game offline.

Note: The links at the end of the game won't open in a browser when playing in Pico8 offline. That functionality is only supported in the web version available on itch.io.