Introduction
By the end of this tutorial you will learn how to create your own Move application, a pokémon-inspired onchain game called Constantinople, using Obelisk. This will help you understand how Obelisk works and how it can be used to build any other Move application or onchain game.
We will also be exploring the ECS model: a software architectural pattern used commonly in video game development. Obelisk has built-in support for ECS with recs, Obelisk’s reactive ECS database.
Learning goals
The Constantinople tutorial is a crash course in everything Obelisk but it is a particularly good resource for learning how to build onchain games using ECS. You can expect to learn the following:
- Onchain game development using the ECS model (opens in a new tab).
- How to create schemas, interact with them using systems, and call them from the client.
- Improve onchain UX by optimistically render user actions using overridable tables.
- Querying onchain data from the Obelisk Schemas.
- Deplyoying all of the above to a testnet.
You can expect your finished product to look something like this:
