Not that there’s much reason to do so, but can Blinks running different sketches communicate with one another? I don’t see a reason why not.
About the only case I can think to do this is if a sketch is too large to fit by itself, you could break it in two.
Might also be a fun collaborative experiment where multiple people agree on a common communication protocol and generate their own sketches to do… something
We’ve speculated that some more complex games could use this as a feature and that you could start the game by essentially deck building (creating a certain number of each role). I think there are lots of possibilities here and the precedent for shipping such a game would be like releasing a game on multiple discs (I remember when all games for my Macintosh were distributed across 2 to 5 floppy discs).
Sometimes I recommend prototyping games this way, such as Flic Flop. Might as well create the two roles as two sketches and then combine with a mode switch later.
I think this makes for an awesome community challenge. I am thinking something like an Exquisite Corpse but for Blinks. I feel like you could reveal very little and simply agree upon some standards to share and create some really wonderful emergent behavior.
Also, makes me think of the Rube Goldberg machine I made in college in which each student had a 1’x1’x1’ box that could do anything it wanted as long as it received a vote from the previous box (1 or 0) and then transmitted that vote to the next box (1 or 0).
Lots of fun to explore here. Would love to see a first pass at some simple rules for such an exercise (I’d participate 
That could make for a readlly cool Jam session: a Prisoner’s Dilemma tournement between everyone’s blinks 
Yes they do!
In fact, my kids have discovered all sorts of funny interactions. If you have a Blink running ZenFlow and the others are running Honey, setting the ZenFlow Blink to orange or blue and joining it to the “hive” will trigger a Hive Celebration!
I didn’t even think about the easter egg possibilities 
Or consider this:
Have two games, A and B, which can be played entirely on their own. However, when you mix Blinks with A and B, it creates an entirely new game based on their interaction. Mortals + Astro? Speed Racer + Bomb Brigade?
This designer, Jordan Draper, https://www.jordandraper.com/ does this with some of his physical games. Each game has multiple rule sets, and then are are additional rules (and games) that involve combining pieces from more than one game.
Oh sweet! I’ll check out his games.
You also reminded me of The GIPF Project. It’s a series of abstract strategy games where the pieces of one can optionally be used in the others to add a new twist.
How about taking two existing games A & B and creating a bridging “game” C that knows how to communicate with A&B to create something different.
For instance you have a group of Mortals ticking down their life as you play another game separately. Doing well in the second game grants life to your Mortals tiles to keep them alive longer.
Yeah! My kids added a Berries blink to Whack to speed it up 
I just added yet another thing I want to do to my Blinks pile: An AI for playing Hexxagon.
I am currently doing some change that will allow Blinks to know about all the Blinks surrounding it (up to a distance of 3, which is all I need for Hexxagon). This change add some new code but also removes a lot of complexity I had for propagating state that can now always be computed internally by each Blink.
Now with a separate sketch, I only need to support the message propagation protocol Hexxagon uses and use it to send commands to other Blinks. This special Blink would have a lot less code as it is not a direct part of the game state so I would be able to save a considerable amount of storage space and memory which would allow me to fit an entire map with up to 128 Blinks in memory. With that, this Blink can simply use this internal map to figure out what to do.
This should work, in theory, but we will see when I start actually trying to implement it. 