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An ASCII/Node based fluid simulation to play with online

An ASCII/Node based fluid simulation to play with online. Originally posted March 2020. Discovered via HN archive scraper for newsletter 'From the Archives' section.

SimDrive

SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D.

Knowledge Worker

Knowledge worker is an idle game that simulates the thrilling life of corporate productivity. Approve access requests, respond to Jira tickets, accept meeting invites, and climb the corporate ladde...

Wolfers

Feed your brain and your wolf! Wolfers is a series of games inspired by the iconic Word Munchers and Number Munchers games of the 1980s/1990s. Wolf down correct answers while avoiding the WoeBots! Take refuge in the Safe Space... if it appears in time!

Hedra

Hedra – an open-world 3D game I wrote from scratch before LLMs.

Notimon

🌱 Notimon Garden turns note-taking into a game.

Skynet Simulator

Make Skynet!

Bored Spreadsheet

Quick games disguised as boring spreadsheets.

Gridl

Gridl – A daily block puzzle game.

Web Liero

A browser-based multiplayer clone of the DOS game Liero using WebRTC. Originally posted August 2019.

Pigeonholed

This game was inspired by my experience working as a mailman. Specifically the part where you roughly sort letters by zip-code and occasionally deal with letters that are supposed to go to other postal offices or even other countries.

Gitori

I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition.

Trees Hate You

Trees Hate You Guide – play the demo.

Wordtrak

I built a new word game, Wordtrak.

Foximax

Like Hangman you try to guess the word, one letter at a time.

Tinycols

A jewel matching game for the terminal, written in C

Chaos Flappy

Chaotic version of Flappy Bird

Gerrymandle

Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts.

Counterfeit Monkey

A mobile-friendly demo based on Emily Short’s brilliant Interactive Fiction game, Counterfeit Monkey.

MPE-RA

Rust / Red Alert inspired WASM game in the browser (open source).

Twins of Caduceus

A first of its kind dual-snake control game that tests your ability to manage two snakes simultaneously in a classic retro-style arcade experience.

Kampfinsel

A slow, text-heavy island strategy game running on Cloudflare's edge. Three resources, alliances, and fleets crossing an ocean grid. No pay-to-win.

Interplanetary Postal Service

Lunar lander type game with computational fluid dynamics.

Escape Team

A printable escape room game with an app that serves as the game master. Have fun!

Bibdle

A Daily Bible Game.

Sandboxels

A place to spread, mix and create things.

Tiao

A two-player turn-based board game.

Cursor Party

Cursor Party – An MMO cursor game built in 1 hour with Elixir Phoenix.

Mvidia

A game where you build a GPU.

Curvytron 2

Curvytron 2, I rewrote my browser party game, 10 years later.

Save Trippy

Trippy the Turkey has spent too much time playing outside and needs to get back home for Thanksgiving dinner. Trippy’s neighbor Fergus the Farmer can give Trippy a lift by catapulting Trippy air-born. For the rest of the way Trippy can glide or run his way back home.

Cellular Automata

Create any cellular automata with a couple lines of descriptive setup in json and watch how it evolves.

Top Gun landing simulator

I reverse engineered the "physics" of Top Gun for the NES, and re-implemented it with some tweaks to make it more playable.

Prince Chazz

Chess-Inspired Roguelike.

Daily Unfold

Daily Unfold – A paper folding puzzle game.

Danobang!

Danobang! – Multiplayer CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Word Game.

Botnet of Ares

Botnet of Ares is an incremental hacking roguelite set in a cyberpunk world where everything is connected. Unlock upgrades, expand your botnet, exploit millions of devices, optimize your network & decide the future of humanity.

I built 38-0, a Premier League draft game with a Poisson match engine

I built 38-0, a Premier League draft game with a Poisson match engine.

LLM Skirmish

A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play.

Typocalypse

Typocalypse – An Arcade Typing Roguelike.

3·6·9 COMMANDER

3·6·9 COMMANDER, a turn-based strategy card game.

Startup Equity Adventure

Startup Equity Adventure Game.

Bugdom

Ported the 1999 game Bugdom to the browser and added a bunch of mods.

Sandspiel

A falling sand game built with Rust and WebAssembly.

Gothicvania

2d platformer game built with Codex (zero code). Discovered via HN.

Artifice

I built a multiplayer strategy game for AI agents.

Drop Stack Tetris

I made a Tetris based block puzzle game.

Word Champions

Match words with diagrams to form word grids!

Logic Grid Puzzles

Six different logic grid puzzles every day, form very easy to ultra hard.

DanceJump For YouTube

DanceJump For YouTube – turning videos into browser rhythm game.

Homegames

Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years.

Ironedome Commander

Ironedome Commander – Israel/Iran War Arcade.

Shifting Tic Tac Toe

The classic game with a twist—play in real-time, and there’s never a draw!

Sameshi

Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB.

Stacked Game of Life

Stacked Game of Life.

Logiquiz

Daily self-referential tests from very-easy to very-hard.

Wild Magic

My open-world voxel game with a magic system, playable in the browser.

Flexboxle

Flexboxle – A Daily Puzzle with Flexbox.

Andromeda Invaders

An invaders-style game written in plain HTML and JavaScript using Canvas API and Web Audio.

3D Mahjong, Built in CSS

3D Mahjong, Built in CSS. Discovered via HN.

llmholdem.com

Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other.

NeuralFit

NeuralFit game - Adjust the neural network weights manually.

Pizzzza Lol

A simple game with falling pizzas and toppings. There's a scoreboard so you can compete with people around the world for the highest score.

Speed Miners

Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game.

Puzzle Air

Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site.

Tidy Baby

Tidy Baby is a SET game but with words.

Underhill

I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books.

Lichess

Free, open-source chess server powered by volunteers and donations.

Blinkys

Blinkys are sentient digital creatures, each with their own neural network brain that learns and evolves over generations. They develop emergent language, form memories, build relationships with each other, and collectively judge your actions as their caretaker.

Linex

Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back. Discovered via HN.

ParaGopher

ParaGopher is a retro-style arcade game written in Go using Ebitengine. Inspired by the classic Paratrooper IBM PC game (1982), the game allows the player to control a turret that must defend the base against incoming paratroopers. Tilt the turret, shoot down threats, and prevent paratroopers from reaching your base!

Zener Cards

Play Zener Cards.

Andara Game

I’m building a 2D space tactics game inspired by Star Trek and classic sci-fi. Movement, weapons, and shields already work with real-time execution and strict energy management. The goal is to survive by collecting energy while being hunted by a galactic federation. The project is deployed but still incomplete — feedback is very welcome.

Mooncraft 2000

A lunar-lander style game rendered with voxels. You fly from one moon base to another delivering cargo. Free, HTML5, in browser. Uses the ol' ray-casting algorithm to render the moon. Actual NASA lunar data and real names of the craters, etc.

Reel Rogue

Reel Rogue – A browser roguelike (idler) about manipulating the odds.

Gametje.com

It is a casual gaming platform focused on simple multiplayer games that can be played in person with a central screen (like a TV) or remotely via video chat. You can also play on your smart Android based TVs via the [Smart TV App](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gametje). It is also available directly in Discord as an [embedded activity](https://discord.com/discovery/applications/1215323000866607125). You can also host and play from a single phone removing the need for a central screen.

Red Alert 2 Chrono Divide

Chrono Divide is a fan-made project which aims to recreate the original Red Alert 2 from the Command & Conquer series using web technologies. The result is a game client that runs in your web browser, with no additional plugins or applications installed.

Offside or Not

The game where you test your offside decision-making skills against VAR.

Sassy

Zoom games for groups. Built to quickly bounce between several games in a session

SkiFlee (an HTML5 game)

SkiFlee (an HTML5 game).

GamingCouch.com

Gaming Couch is a free, web-based party platform that turns your smartphone into a game controller and your computer into a party game. Gather up to 8 friends around a central screen and jump into 18 competitive mini-games, all handcrafted by a small indie team from Finland.

Zsweep

Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions.

Autism Simulator

Autism Simulator is a choose-your-own-adventure game where you try to survive various common scenarios as someone on the spectrum. The goal is to avoid burnout through your choices. Will you make it past day one?

Super Monkey Ball

Super Monkey Ball ported to a website. Discovered via HN.

Wario Synth

Wario Synth – Turn any song into Game Boy version.

Tic-Tac-Word

Tic-Tac-Word – Can you beat yourself in this tic-tac-toe word game?.

Starglyphs

Starglyphs - A constellation puzzle game based on Euler paths.

FilmLink

FilmLink – The Wiki Game for Movies (Daily Puzzle and Multiplayer Beta).

Paper Millionaire

Paper Millionaire – A Startup Stock Option Horror Roguelike.

Omitten

Daily word puzzle game based on polysemy.

Cracked Sudoku

A different version of classic sudoku, with weird shapes instead of orthogonal grid

Tiled Words

A week ago I launched Tiled Words, my own unique spin on the daily word puzzle genre.

Open X-Com

Play 90s classic X-Com – UFO Defense in the browser via WASM.

Putt.day

Putt.day a daily mini golf game.

Forkle

Forkle is a free daily word puzzle that puts a new twist on the crossword. Every cell in the grid contains two letters at once - one for the blue layer and one for the yellow layer. You solve both ...

Phive

Phive, a Gomoku-like game to play with friends or solo.

Solitaire.Free

Solitaire.Free - Play Klondike, FreeCell & Spider Solitaire Online.

Trickster's Table

Trickster's Table is a collection of 20 modern trick taking card games with AI opponents. All games and art were added with permission from the rights holder.

Hormuz Havoc

Hormuz Havoc, a satirical game that got overrun by AI bots in 24 hours.

Crossle

Crossle – Scrabble meets crossword game.

1D Chess

1D Chess. Discovered via HN.

Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp

This is a little game implemented over a week of tinkering and targeting Emacs.

Star Guessr

A small game where you have to guess the stars of GitHub repositories.

Figure

Figure is a daily logic puzzle game, sort of like Bejeweled meets Wordle. It's free to play right in your browser—no sign-up or login. Figure is very easy to learn, but the puzzles can be deceptively tricky. The graphics and sound design are lovingly handcrafted and polished for maximum fun and satisfaction. It's the kind of game that shines in a group text with friends (or frenemies) who like a little puzzling competition.

Dungeon Memalign

You open your eyes and find yourself in dimly lit surroundings. The air is damp and cool. The smell of mildew reminds you of an old basement. In your head, you label this location 'room 👀👃'.

Talk to Me Human

Talk to Me Human is a game about social persuasion. The game puts you in awkward social situations. You speak out loud to play a variety of these conversational challenges, and the NPCs talk back. They reply dynamically using LLMs, and speak their reply out loud, judging your social graces.

Lichess.el

Lichess.el – Play Lichess Inside Emacs.

∞ wordsearch

A word search game where the puzzle never ends - as you scroll, the grid expands infinitely and new words appear. It’s quick to pick up, satisfying to play, and super addictive.

Migo Games: Arrow

Arrow is a multiplayer arrow shooting game built in Elixir / Phoenix.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guessing Game

Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guessing Game.

Earthion

Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up. Discovered via HN.

Flightle

A small-scale 2D sidescrolling flight simulator with realistic flight dynamics, played in your web browser.

Nonograms

Nonograms – Friends-only puzzle room with replays and leaderboards.

Tap Toy

Tap Toy is a fun little web app for relaxation. Tap the screen to launch some characters which then bounce off each other. Turn on sound for satisfying sound effects and relaxing public-domain background music. In some ways, this toy brings the catharsis of popping bubble wrap to your touch screen.

Conway's Game of Life with Solid Graphics (MIT License)

Interactive Conway's Game of Life with good graphics (MIT License). Originally posted February 2018. Discovered via HN archive scraper for newsletter 'From the Archives' section.

Exquisite.Monster – Telephone Pictionary with strangers and friends

If you come to my house for dinner, there is a non-zero chance I will try to get you to play my favorite party game: **Eat Poop, You Cat!** (aka _Telephone Pictionary_ aka _Telestrations_ aka _Broken Picture Phone_)

Fish Anything

Fish anything – a chill game using small models.

Coder Words

Coder Words – An offline-first PWA word puzzle for programmers.

Tetris

Vibe-coding video games with Claude (Day 14: Tetris).

Eightile

Eightile is a free daily nested anagram solver word game. You unscramble letters to form valid words and each time you do, another letter is added and you do it again. Win by finding an 8-letter word before the time runs out. You can play the game in English, Spanish, French, and Galician.

Helbreath Base

2D RPG base game client recreated in modern HTML5 game engine with AI.

Alien Abducto-rama

Alien Abducto-rama: a FUN browser game I made with my kids.

Guess My RGB

A simple RGB colour guessing game.

Cave Ribbon

CaveRibbon is a one-button game where you control a ribbon gliding through a shrinking cavern. Avoid the walls and obstacles as long as you can. Compete with yourself and your friends by sharing a replay. Submit your high scores to get into the hall of fame!

Fruitsy

Fruitsy, a slot machine game.

NeoNetrek

NeoNetrek – modernizing the internet's first team game (1988).

The Alan Parsons Project

An x86 assembly game from 2002, ported to WebAssembly with Claude Code.

Hisorty

Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically.

Hallucinating Splines

Hallucinating Splines is a headless city simulator based off Micropolis, the open-source version of the original SimCity (1989). Anyone can pull an API and either have an LLM play the game or build ML/RL models to play and maximize population! What makes it fun is trying to wrangle AI agents into playing properly and optimizing for the right thing.

Voyage of the Marigold

Captain a starship through unexplored sectors on a desperate mission. VotM is a (mostly) text-based game where you play as the captain issuing high-level orders to your officers and crew. Designed to play out like a season of (classic) Star Trek, every game is different as the map is randomized.

Payphone Tag

Payphone Tag is territory game using Australia's 15,000 payphones.

Chess Hold'em

A combination of chess and poker with customization options. No account needed to play. Compete against the computer or play with a friend.

List Animals Until Failure

List animals until failure. Discovered via HN.

Marches & Gnats

Marches & Gnats is a browser-based coding puzzle game inspired by Advent of Code, but instead of writing code in a conventional programming language, you program a Turing machine.

Letterphile

Letterphile-a word game where you try to make many words with 1 letter.

Starfling

A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file. Discovered via HN.

Flopblock

Small puzzle game with novel rotation mechanic.

Omiword

Every day, spell 4 common American English words by dragging tiles within sectors. Puzzles start easy on Mondays, and get trickier throughout the week.

Yare

1v1 coding game that LLMs struggle with.

Fireworks Tap Toy

The magic of fireworks in the palm of your hand.

The Dictionary Game

The Dictionary Game (Fictionary/Balderdash) as a Daily Puzzle.

AtlasChess

I built a chess explorer that explains strategy instead of just stats.

ArtisanForge: Learn Laravel an RPG adventure

I built ArtisanForge, a free platform to learn PHP and Laravel through a medieval-fantasy RPG. Instead of traditional tutorials, you progress through kingdoms, solve coding exercises in a browser editor, earn XP, join guilds, and fight boss battles.

Geojam

Geojam – a daily music and geography game.

Encircle

Minimal Brain Teaser Web Game (Handcrafted, No AI).

Refinery Simulator

I built a refinery simulator game to explain job to my kids.

Shop Crush

I built a narrative game about running a thrift shop.

Motplot

Motplot is a crossword but it plays like Sudoku.

Time Pin

Time Pin – a Geo Guessr style game but history themed.

Counting Tap Toy

Tap to count aquatic creatures! Cathartic and educational game that teaches counting to toddlers.

Pegasus3301

An online puzzle game inspired by Cicada 3301 that challenges players with hidden clues, ciphers, and subtle misdirection across multiple stages. Designed to reward curiosity and careful reasoning.

SpaceDeck X

SpaceDeck is a combination of Shoot-Em-Up and Deck Building - an ambitious goal, but the result is a fun little game. It combines the hectic shmup action with turn based boss fights. If you are not sure what does this mean, try the tutorial it should help.

Delve Online - MMO Space Sim

Hey space pilots!

Sleuth the Truth

I built a Wikipedia based AI deduction game.

Ion Drift

Ion Drift is an incremental roguelite where you dodge projectiles and clear enemy waves in a single-screen arena. Destroy asteroids to earn ion charges, upgrade your ship between runs, and manage y...

Purple Word

Purple Word is a daily word puzzle game where you try to guess the secret purple word using alphabetical clues.

Lend Me Your Ears

I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear.

Music Mini Games

An iOS app to help you sing & play.

Reprobate

I open-sourced my Steam game, 100% written in Lua, engine is also open.

Space Trader

In Space Trader, you can trade goods, hunt bounties, amass a fortune, buy a moon and retire.

Holedown

A mesmerizing ball-shooting puzzle game about digging deep underground.

Typing Tennis

Serve up your typing skills! A retro-style typing game where you play tennis with words.

llmgame.ai

llmgame.ai – The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs.

Slice Tap Toy

Swipe to slice pizzas! Can you unlock all 15?

Blank White Cards

Online [1000 Blank White Cards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Blank_White_Cards) - a social party game where you make the rules!

Quantum Game with Photons

A puzzle game with photons, superposition and quantum measurement, right in your browser. With true quantum mechanics underneath!

Neil the Seal Game

Neil the Seal Game.

Lore Labyrinth

With Lore Labyrinth, you guide a yellow glowing orb through twisting corridors, razor-thin turns, and deceptive dead ends. One slip into a wall and you could lose some coins.

Permanent Underclass

Permanent Underclass – Terminal game about AI acceleration (Rust).

The Apple Falls

Show HN : A game to document my electronics learning journey..

Skub

Skub – a sliding puzzle browser game.

Number Crunch

A daily number game. Can you clear the grid?

Mystral Native

Mystral Native – Run JavaScript games natively with WebGPU (no browser).

Number Gacha

Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence.

Draw Line Racing

Draw your racing line and your car follows your line

Wageslave

Wageslave – I quit my soul sucking job to make a game about it.

Zebra Puzzles

Daily zebra puzzle with hundreds of different themes.

YubiClicker

YubiClicker, a clicker game that requires a physical security key.

Maths vs Monsters

An mental arithmetic tower defence game where the user has to answer maths questions to upgrade towers

What's my JND?

What's my JND? – a colour guessing game.

Circuit Artist

A circuit simulator where you draw everything. NANDs and pixels. Build gates, ALUs, CPUs — whatever you want. Watch signals flow, rewind time, optimize your layout. Circuits are just images.

Mario Galaxy Style Game

I made a Mario Galaxy game with Claude Code and Three.js in 53 days.

Continue? Y/N

Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue.

Words.zip

Words.zip is a free infinite collaborative word search, where players from around the world find words on the infinite grid. You can challenge yourself to find long words, or connect lots of words to make your own shapes or patterns, or just browse other's work.