Workshop: player-made levels, worlds and skins

What the player sees

• The catalog with filters: popular, new and your own.
• Getting content: free, for in-game resources (the author gets it minus the commission) or unlocked by holding an item or currency, with nothing charged.
• Likes, favorites and following authors, and reports.
• Publishing: the game captures what the player made and puts it into the catalog.

How it works

• A game plugs its content in by registering a content type; the Workshop never imports the game.
• Content with enough reports is hidden by itself until moderation looks at it.
• The voxel sandbox publishes worlds, characters and item looks this way.

For developers

The Workshop works through client.workshop in @idosgames/core; a game connects through ctx.content.

// In the game module's setup(): the game's own content type for the Workshop
ctx.content.registerType({
  type: 'level', // a key of Workshop.ContentTypes in the title settings
  label: 'Level',
  modeId: 'my-game',
  listLocal: async () => myLevels.map((l) => ({ id: l.id, name: l.name })),
  capture: async (id) => ({
    files: [{ role: 'main', contentType: 'application/json', data: JSON.stringify(load(id)) }],
    suggestedTitle: load(id).name,
  }),
  open: async (c) => startLevel(JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(c.files[0].data))),
})

• capture returns the files of what the player made; open starts the game on content someone else made.
• Browsing and acquiring are browse and acquire; the server checks the price and the unlock rule.

Every field is described in the workshop-system skill, served by the SDK MCP server.