Hypermedia games - Einar Høst

As the Web has shown, hypermedia messages over HTTP are an elegant and flexible way of building applications. The HTTP infrastructure simplifies your application protocol and gives you caching and scalability essentially for free. Hypermedia messages give dynamic control over the application state transitions, allowing to grow applications and change things around without breaking clients. These are terrific properties! In this talk, I'll put these claims to the test as we play, dissecting and extending an old-school text adventure game implemented using nothing but HTTP and hypermedia.