✩ News Archive ✩

Cirkoban: Sokoban meets cellular automata written in Scheme

Last week, we released a small puzzle game called Cirkoban. Cirkoban is the very first publicly accessible application developed by Spritely that features the Goblins distributed programming library running in web browsers. We bet big on Hoot, our Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler, a little over a year ago in order to bring Goblins to the web. That bet is starting to pay off! In this post, we’ll talk in detail about how we made Cirkoban and how it showcases Spritely technology.

Organizational changes at the Spritely Institute

Today we’re announcing some organizational changes at the Spritely Networked Communities Institute. My co-founder and colleague Randy Farmer is transitioning out of the Executive Director role. I (Christine Lemmer-Webber) will be stepping into the role of Executive Director, and David Thompson, formerly our Core Infrastructure Architect, will be stepping up as Chief Technology Officer.