I think it'd be really cool to have any sort of networking in TIC-80, especially if it also worked in wasm.

My usecase is that I want to use TIC-80 games as a frontend for stuff that can only be done on the backend. I think it might be useful for others for making multiplayer games, too, maybe behind a build-option flag.

It makes sense to me that it might be websockets, as it should work on wasm, with a little work. Even basic HTTP would be workable for my situation.

I am not great with C, but I'm happy to try to help. I did a little research and found this. I imagine in the lua interface it would look something like this:

function on_socket_open(address)
  print("socket opened")
  print(address)
end

function on_socket_close(address)
  print("socket closed")
  print(address)
end

function on_socket_message(address, msg)
  print("message")
  print(address)
  print(msg)
end

socket_listen(on_socket_message, on_socket_open, on_socket_close)

So the only thing that would need to be exposed to lua is socket_listen.

To get an address for a callback, it looks like this:

void onopen(int fd)
{
    char *cli;
    cli = ws_getaddress(fd);
    printf("Connection opened, client: %d | addr: %s\n", fd, cli);
    free(cli);
  // call lua function here with cli
}

Is this something you'd be interested in? Would you be willing to help me set it up, as I am very slow with C?