For the last two years, RStudio has been organizing a competition to showcase the power and flexibility of Shiny as a framework for creating applications. Lately I’ve been devoting my career to making Shiny apps more beautiful, and this year I decided to take part in the contest. However, I wanted to do something a little bit different…

At that moment a question popped up in my mind: Would it be possible to build a game using R Shiny, even as a prototype? Could it actually be playable and enjoyable?

A Video Game? In R Shiny?

Shiny has been historically used for data-driven applications and as…