Make your own room

What you get

A zipped plugin folder, the same one npm create @phantomclient/plugin makes. It builds and publishes like any other plugin.

package.json

the manifest, asking for customRooms at act

src/room.ts

the room, laid out, with its pictures imported

src/index.ts

two commands: walk in, and walk out

art/

every file, as the PNG, JPEG or SWF you chose

room.phantom.json

what this page saved, so the folder opens here again

README.md

what to run, and what the numbers mean

Open the game’s own rooms

Open a .xroom file and pull it apart: its grid, doors, arrival points, bouncing areas and art. Anything a room plugin can’t hold is listed before it opens, and your file is only read.

The game’s art is SWF and browsers can’t play Flash, so it shows as named boxes at the right size.

Nothing leaves your computer

Your pictures are read in the browser and never sent anywhere. The room is saved in this browser, so you can close the tab and come back, but clearing the site’s data clears it too. The download is your copy, and it opens here again.

Use art you have the right to use. Rooms published to Phantom’s store are reviewed by a person.

What it can’t do yet

• Playing SWFs. A SWF shows as a box at its real size until you walk into the room.
• Props that pulse, spin, bob or play a strip of frames.
• A hit box of its own for a prop. The room’s grid decides where people can walk.
• Portals to Animal Jam’s own rooms, more than one arrival point, or setting how far the view scrolls.
• Saving over one of Animal Jam’s own rooms. You get a room plugin of your own, and your .xroom is never written to.
• Drawing characters. You can place one and dress it by def id, and the game draws it when you walk in.
• More than one room at a time. Download a room to keep it.