Component state
Tracks the player, score, lives, enemies, projectiles, and game status through a responsive component experience.
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Salesforce · LWC · JavaScript · Just for fun
Space Invaders
A playable arcade game built as a Lightning Web Component, proving that Salesforce UI engineering can go well beyond forms, tables, and blue Save buttons.
Gameplay demonstration
Yes, that is Space Invaders running in Salesforce.
The short demonstration shows the component in action: player movement, projectiles, enemies, scoring, and the familiar arcade loop—all delivered through an LWC.
A working game is a compact demonstration of state, events, timing, rendering, and interaction—not merely a novelty wearing a Salesforce cloud.
02 / Why build it?
Serious engineering can still have a sense of humor.
Business applications and arcade games share more engineering DNA than they first appear to: both react to user input, maintain state, apply rules, render feedback, and recover cleanly as conditions change.
Building the game inside Salesforce provided a playful way to exercise those fundamentals while demonstrating the flexibility of Lightning Web Components. It also makes the portfolio more human. Not every useful experiment needs a steering committee and a twelve-tab requirements workbook.
What it demonstrates
A small game with real UI engineering underneath.
The result brings together the same component skills used to create responsive, dependable Salesforce business experiences.
Real-time interaction
Turns keyboard input into immediate movement and firing behavior while keeping the game loop smooth and understandable.
Collision logic
Detects hits, removes targets, updates the score, and manages the rules that move the game toward victory or defeat.
Salesforce-native delivery
Packages an unexpected interactive experience inside the same Lightning Web Component model used for practical business interfaces.
The practical takeaway
Lightning Web Components are an application framework—not merely a form builder.
Space Invaders is intentionally playful, but the underlying skills transfer directly to guided workflows, operational consoles, rich visual feedback, and other interaction-heavy Salesforce experiences.