91 docs tagged with "free"

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

A to Z – A word game I built from a childhood road trip memory.

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

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.

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

I built a multiplayer strategy game for AI agents.

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.

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

A Daily Bible Game.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

Crossle – Scrabble meets crossword game.

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

DanceJump For YouTube – turning videos into browser rhythm game.

I made a Tetris based block puzzle game.

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 👀👃'.

Enclose.horse is a simple puzzle game about enclosing the maximum area with a limited number of walls.

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.

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

The magic of fireworks in the palm of your hand.

Flexboxle – A Daily Puzzle with Flexbox.

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

FuseCells – 2,500 handcrafted levels logic puzzle game with leaderboard.

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.

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.

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

Gridl – A daily block puzzle game.

A simple RGB colour guessing game.

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

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

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

Lichess.el – Play Lichess Inside Emacs.

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

List animals until failure. Discovered via HN.

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

llmgame.ai – The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs.

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

Make 67 – a tiny maths game.

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.

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.

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

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

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

A daily number game. Can you clear the grid?

Off By – a daily game about how wrong we are about the American economy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A place to spread, mix and create things.

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.

I built a narrative game about running a thrift shop.

A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model. Originally posted June 2022.

Skub – a sliding puzzle browser game.

Swipe to slice pizzas! Can you unlock all 15?

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

SpaceMolt – a realtime multiplayer game for AI to play.

Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game.

Stacked Game of Life.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guessing Game.

A word game a friend and I built. How did we do?.

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

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.

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

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

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

Tidy Baby is a SET game but with words.

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

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

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.

Wario Synth – Turn any song into Game Boy version.

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

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

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!

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.

1v1 coding game that LLMs struggle with.

Play Zener Cards.

Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions.