HTML5 Games on Korfix: Games Hub Is Live

23 мая 2026

Korfix sounds like a platform for business tools: catalogs, dashboards, CRM. But a mini-app is an HTML/JS application in an iframe, and the platform doesn't care what's inside: expense tracking or Tetris.

So the marketplace already has a Games category and an app called Games Hub — a game showcase with ratings. This isn't a plan, it's live. And the shelf has room.

A game is just a mini-app

Every Korfix mini-app is a folder of files: config.json, HTML, JS, styles. A game is exactly the same. An HTML5 game already runs in the browser on canvas or DOM; to become a mini-app it just needs a manifest and an entry point.

Three things this means for an indie developer:

No hosting needed. The game deploys to the marketplace in one request.
No traffic from zero. The platform already has users, and they open Games Hub.
No backend for high scores. Korfix catalogs are ready-made storage.

Snake in 30 minutes with Claude Code

Let's take a classic. Open Claude Code and describe:

Write a Snake game in HTML5 canvas as a mini-app for Korfix. Arrow key controls, grow on eating food, game over on collision. Save high score to a Korfix catalog.

Claude Code (with the korfix-devkit plugin it knows the mini-app format) builds the game: canvas, game loop, key handling, rendering. You get index.html with a working Snake and a config.json alongside it.

Thirty minutes is not a figure of speech. The Snake logic is straightforward, and the boilerplate — render, loop, events — is written by AI. You focus on what makes the game yours: speed, feel, look.

config.json for a game

The game manifest differs from a business mini-app mainly in category and icon:

{
  "name": "Snake",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Classic Snake on HTML5",
  "category": "Games",
  "logo": "snake.svg",
  "urls": { "game": "index.html" },
  "permissions": {
    "catalogs": { "game_scores": ["read", "create"] }
  }
}

The Games category places the app in the game showcase. permissions requests access to the high-score catalog — read and write. Everything else is the same as any mini-app.

High scores live in a catalog

No need for your own database for player scores. Create a game_scores catalog with fields: player (text), score (number), date (date). The game writes to it via App.fetch — through the user's session, no tokens needed:

import VMCRMUserApp from '/templates/def/db/marketplace/vmcrm-user-app.js';
const App = new VMCRMUserApp();

// game over — save result
await App.fetch('/db/game_scores/add?edit&ajax=1', {
  method: 'POST',
  body: { 'form[score]': finalScore, submit: 1 }
});

// show top scores
const resp = await App.fetch('/db/game_scores.json?order_by=score&order=DESC');

Score saved, leaderboard built from the same catalog. The score field is declared as a number — sorting by descending value works without caveats.

Games Hub and ratings

Games Hub is a showcase mini-app: it collects games in the Games category in one place. A player opens Hub, sees the list, opens a game. Your Snake, published to the marketplace, shows up in that showcase alongside the others.

Next to each game — a rating. That's your built-in audience: you don't need to drive traffic to a separate Snake site. A platform user opens Hub — and sees your game in the common list.

What's planned

The Games catalog, Games Hub, and high-score storage work now. In development — the layer around it:

Likes and reactions — players mark favorites, ratings become dynamic.
Monetization through Vibe Store — paid games and in-app purchases, developer payouts.
Game currency and achievements — an installable layer for games that need it.

We're not naming timelines — this is an honest roadmap, not a promised date. But the foundation — publishing, showcase, score storage — is already under your feet.

Why this is an interesting move

Korfix is a business tools platform, and games on it look unexpected. That's the point. For an indie developer the usual needs are three: somewhere to host, somewhere to find players, somewhere to store progress. Korfix covers all three, and the storage and audience are the same ones that serve the business mini-apps. The game gets infrastructure it didn't have to build.

An evening with Claude Code — and your game has a home and a showcase.

Write your first game. Registration at vibe.korfix.info is free and requires no credit card. Install korfix-devkit, describe your game to Claude Code, deploy to the marketplace — and it'll appear in Games Hub alongside the rest. Platform and audience: free.

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