A game portal for the society whose real engineering sits in the loader: a React wrapper around the Godot HTML5 engine with its own progress UI.

01 Architecture

• React wrapper around the Godot HTML5 runtime, with a hand written progress UI in place of the default splash.
• Godot's web export needs cross origin isolation headers, handled through host and build level rewrites the platform does not set by default.
• 24 MB level packs streamed from a DigitalOcean Spaces CDN behind cookie based auth, so the download happens once.
• WebAssembly target, meaning the game runs at native-ish speed in the browser.

02 What is in it

• No install, no plugin, no download step for the player.
• Persistent leaderboard across sessions.
• The loader is the artefact: everything hard about shipping a game engine to the web lives in it.