awesome-jsgames
by proyecto26
A curated list of awesome JavaScript Games 🎮
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A curated collection of JavaScript games with a focus on game development and learning resources.
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Winners
- js13kGames 2021
13 tiny and terrific entries from the js13kGames competition
- js13kGames 2020
Top 10 games from the JS13K 2020 competition 🕹
- js13kGames 2019
Highlights from the js13kGames 2019 competition
- js13kGames 2018
13 Games in ≤ 13kB of JavaScript
- js13kGames 2017
Build a game in 13kB or less with js13kGames
Adventure
- Triangle: Back To Home
You are lost in the cave. Try to get out and back to home. Sometimes it can be easy, sometimes not… but don’t give up and you will do it
- Dwarfs: There and Back Again
A tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarfs, in search of dragon-guarded gold, true friendship, and varieties of ale (not necessarily in that order)
- Bounce Back
Boomerang adventure game for JS13k!
- Wander
Explore a desolate wilderness with your grappling hook
- Offline Paradise
The world, a paradise, has gone offline; everything has become grey and dangerous. Traverse, jump and dash over the obstacles to turn the world back into normal
- Planetfall
A space exploration game. The goal is to find satellite stations on each planet and take them offline
- Quest of Tod
A speed running adventure game, where you stuck inside unknown place controlled by strange machine. Can you find all the keys and codes to unlock the exit before the time runs out?
Arcade
- Racer
Start from the back of the pack, finish 1st to go to the next race!
- Everyone's Sky
Make allies by completing missions, study other planets, stars, defend yourself against planetary defenses and pirate groups, or makes enemies by attacking them, ignoring their communications and destroying their facilities
- Evil glitch
Strange glitches appear in your dimension, could you stop them to assimilate your world?
- Off The Line
Jump off the line and try not to die or throw your keyboard across the room in this twitchy arcade tapper
- Behind Asteroids, The Dark Side
A game about throwing asteroids to people playing "Asteroids" on an arcade machine
- Pest Control: Weasels
Lemmings were meant to be saved, weasels should instead be disposed of. (consider this as your revenge on small pesky critters!)
- Pizza Undelivery
Here you bring pizzas back to the pizzeria, instead of the other way around
jump-n-bump
HTML5 port of the open source DOS classic by Brainchild Design: local multiplayer platfomer game
Educational
Pixel Art Academy
An adventure game for learning to draw
Platform
- nano-wirebot
A simple platformer where you play as a nanobot that needs to fix some wires
- The Wandering Wraith
A lost wraith is wandering through the world seeking for peace. Will you guide him back to his grave so he can finally rest?
- ONOFF
Navigate through 25 brain-teasing levels in this fast-paced, hand-crafted platformer. You'll dodge spikes, jump over pits, and toggle between dimensions
- The Matr13k
After saving Morpheus, Neo needs to find an exit from this JavaScript version of the matrix
- Glitch Buster
Can you fix all 13 glitches before time runs out? Avoid the dangerous pointers, or kill them by jumping on their heads!
- Vier
You have the power to control the 4 elements with the VIER stone, It's time to destroy all the wizards and become the ruler of the universe
- Way Out
The door is locked. You'll have to explore a dangerous dungeon full of traps and monsters and find 4 lost gems to open the door and get your WAY OUT!
Puzzle
- Play Back
Oh no, you've been kicked out of the castle! Solve puzzles and make your way back to your rightful home
- Back Attacker
Invaders have entered in the Ninja’s Forest. Be careful!, They have weapons. Attack behind the back
- xx142-b2.exe
This is the year 2413, humanity is enslaved by an alien race for more than two centuries already
- 1024 Moves
This puzzle can be solved in 1024 movements
- Re-Wire
Bring the system back online by rewiring the power nodes
- Envisionator
A short puzzle game about escaping a building lockdown with the aid of your trusty robot friend
- Planet Figadore has gone OFFLINE
Fred lives on planet Figadore in the Hercules cluster, he likes watching cat videos from planet Earth via Parallax Shift, but the network link has gone OFFLINE!
- Enmeshed
A hacking puzzle / strategy game. Exploit vulnerabilities in nodes and connections to knock a dynamically-routed mesh network offline
- Raven
The security cameras for a secret facility have been taken offline, and it is YOUR job to fix the problem
- Lost Treasure
'Lost Treasure' is a short retro style puzzle-platformer game. There are 7 different levels (for now) to go through and collect treasure back to little Flo
Blitz Tactics
fast-paced chess puzzles
Untrusted —or— the Continuing Adventures of Dr. Eval
Meta-JavaScript Adventure Game wherein you must edit and re-execute the very JavaScript running the game in your browser to save Dr. Eval from this dark and confusing reality
Running
- Offline: O.E.C.T
They said organic-electric technology was the way of the future
Shooter
- [SWAGSHOT]
The station on LZ-13 was taken over by its AIs! You must take it back... with style!
- The Chroma Incident
The Achromats have taken the worlds color offline! Raid their colorless lair and vanquish them all, restoring the world to it's technicolor glory
- UNDERRUN
A twin stick shooter in 256 shades of brown
- Backcountry
Kill or be killed in this hack-and-shoot set in the Wild West! Use the mouse or tap the screen to control your avatar, and earn as much gold as you can from the sheriff's bounties
Strategy
Ancient Beast
Match based eSport where players battle themselves by materializing and controling a squad of carefully selected creatures, each having unique stats and abilities. Master your beasts!
- Elematter
Elematter is a tower defense game based on the four elements: Earth, Water, Air and Fire
Virtual Reality
- Back to Space
40 Years ago we thought we had defeated them. But they are back! Now it's up to you!
- You Are Offline
You are trapped in a room. There is no way out. Your only hope is to contact someone to rescue you. The only problem is: YOU ARE OFFLINE
Web Components
Scroll!
A Face to Face fighting game for mobile that you can play in your browser
Uncategorized
- Push Back
In Push Back you create currents to help the stranded boats get back to the mainland. This game uses fluid dynamics to simulate the water
- Retrohaunt
Someone or something is stealing our time. Today was yesterday and tomorrow is nowhere to be seen. Detective Clay is on the case!
- SPACECRAFT
"Space, the final frontier" is your ultimate destination in SPACECRAFT
- LOST ROBOT
If I'd written the mapping module, it wouldn't be offline!
- Exo
A space based tower defence game! Build satellites and stations around planets orbiting a distant star. Survive waves of enemies
- Submersible Warship 2063
Enemy submarines have invaded your perimeter. Stay off their radar and fight back!
- Enjoy The Sunshine (Get Offline!)
Another beautiful day. But, look! Nobody appreciates it
- oh, flip!
You're a majestic square with one leg who loves to flip!
UNO
The famous UNO card game with online multiplayer support!
MemoryGame.js
A customizable memory game
Game Engines
GDevelop
An open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone
melonJS
A fresh & lightweight HTML5 game engine
PixiJS
The HTML5 Creation Engine: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer
Phaser
Desktop and Mobile HTML5 game framework. A fast, free and fun open source framework for Canvas and WebGL powered browser games
Cocos2d-x
A multi-platform framework for building 2d games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications
Craters.js
A Compact Game Engine that helps you build fast, modern HTML5 Games
BLACKSMITH 2D
Black is a highly optimized 2D framework for web, mobile games, and playable ads
Impact
A JavaScript Game Engine that allows you to develop stunning HTML5 Games for desktop and mobile browsers
Babylonjs
A powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework
PlayCanvas
Fast and lightweight WebGL game engine
three.js
JavaScript 3D library
Math
CindyJS
A JavaScript framework for interactive (mathematical) content
big.js
A small, fast JavaScript library for arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic
- Math for games
Maths & trigonometry cheat sheet for 2D & 3D games
- Math is Fun
Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, worksheets and an illustrated dictionary
Micro-libraries
EasyStar.js
An asynchronous A* pathfinding API written in Javascript
Sound.js
A micro-library to load, play and generate sound effects and music for games and interactive applications
Simplify.js
A high-performance JavaScript polyline simplification library by Vladimir Agafonkin, extracted from Leaflet
ZzFX
A Tiny JavaScript Sound Effect Engine
- ZzFXM
A tiny JavaScipt music generator
SAT.js
A simple JavaScript library for performing 2D collision detection
- jsfxr
synth port to JavaScript created for js13kGames
- Kontra
A lightweight JavaScript gaming micro-library created specifically for the Js13kGames game jam
Hexi
A fun and easy way to make HTML5 games or any other kind interactive media using pure JavaScript code
js13k-2d
A 2kb webgl 2d sprite renderer, designed for Js13kGames
IonPhaser
A web component to use Phaser Framework with Angular, React, Vue, etc 🎮
Animatable
Animate once, use Everywhere! 💫
minivents
Tiny eventing for javascript
Graphics
Physics
Virtual Reality
A-Frame
A web framework for building virtual reality experiences
Audio Resources
- A port of sfxr to HTML5
Dead easy game sound effects generator
TinyMusic
A simple, lightweight music synth/sequencer in JavaScript using the Web Audio API
SoundBox
A tool for composing synthetic music, in your browser
Sonant-X
A very small JavaScript synthesizer library, suitable for small JavaScript demos or video games
Visual Resources
- Poly
A website created by Google for users to browse, distribute, and download 3D objects
- OpenGameArt.org
Free, legal art for open source game projects (includes models, sprites, textures, sounds, music)
- NFG's Arcade Font Engine
Font for your games
- The Spriters Resource
The #1 source for video game sprites on the internet!
- Sprite Database
Sprite rips from classic games
- TinyPNG
Compress PNG images while preserving transparency
- Arcade Font Writer
Create your own text using hundreds of fonts from classic Arcade games
- ShoeBox
A free Adobe Air based app for Windows and Mac OSX with game and ui related tools
Real-Time
Snapshot Interpolation
A Snapshot Interpolation library for Real-Time Multiplayer Games
Utilities
- Tiled Parser for Phaser 3
Generate code for loading tilemaps created with Tiled 🤓
Editors
Tiled Map Editor
A flexible level editor
- Phaser Editor 2D
A web-based IDEfor HTML5 game development
- Aseprite
Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool
Piskel
A free online editor for animated sprites & pixel art
Generators
- Stitches
An HTML5 sprite sheet generator
Audiosprite
A ffmpeg wrapper that will take in multiple audio files and combines them into a single file
Minification
Rollup
A module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application
webpack
Bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset
UglifyJS
A JavaScript parser, minifier, compressor and beautifier toolkit
Brunch
Fast front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config and seamless incremental compilation for rapid development
Gulp
A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow
Grunt
The JavaScript Task Runner
Build
Electron
Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
NW.js
Call all Node.js modules directly from DOM/WebWorker and enable a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies
Cordova
Mobile apps with HTML, CSS & JS. Target multiple platforms with one code base
Capacitor
Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the web ⚡️
Compilers
Babel
The compiler for writing next generation JavaScript
Emscripten: An LLVM-to-Web Compiler
Compiles C and C++ to WebAssembly using LLVM and Binaryen. Emscripten output can run on the Web, in Node.js, and in wasm runtimes
Templates
js13kserver
js13kGames Server category files and rules
JS13K A-Frame Boilerplate
An A-Frame boilerplate for the js13k competition
- Ourcade Templates
Various open-source game templates and starter projects to help speed up learning and development
- Phaser 3 TypeScript Project Template
A quick-start project template that uses Phaser 3, TypeScript and Rollup for bundling
- StackBlitz Phaser & React
Phaser & React template using Hooks 👾
Guides
- WebGL guide
A complete, summarized WebGL tutorial, with tiny interactive demos in each chapter
- browserdiet.com
The definitive front-end performance guide
- JavaScript Garden
A growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language
Books
- Phaser 3 HTML5 Cross Platform Game Development - Endless Runner
Designed both for beginners and skilled programmers, the course guides you from an empty folder introducing the bare bones of JavaScript to advanced Phaser 3 features
- HTML5 Cross Platform Game Development Using Phaser 3
The first Phaser 3 guide to the creation of HTML5 cross platform games using Phaser 3 framework and other free software
- From null to full HTML5 cross platform game
Each step of the book is provided with its source code example, for a total of 79 pages and 27 source code examples
- Interphase #1
A 400 page bookazine complete with a coverdisk filled with source code, graphics and more for Phaser CE
- A Guide to the Phaser CE Tween Manager
Learn how to use the Phaser Tween Manager to its full potential and spice up your games
- A Guide to the Phaser CE Scale Manager
Phaser has a powerful built-in Scale Manager and this guide teaches you how to unlock its features
- Infinite Jumper in Phaser 3 with Modern JavaScript
A free book to help beginners learn Phaser 3 with modern JavaScript without complicated web development tooling
- Infinite Runner in Phaser 3 with TypeScript
A free book to help you get started using TypeScript to make more complex Phaser 3 games
Competitions
- Js13kGames
Create HTML5 games that will fit in a zip package of only 13 kilobytes
- Ludum Dare
An online event where games are made from scratch in a weekend
- Node Knockout
The world's biggest Node.js programming competition
Courses
- Codecademy
JavaScript Courses & Tutorials
CodeCombat: Learn to Code by Playing a Game
Learn programming with a multiplayer live coding strategy game for beginners
- Codewars
Achieve mastery through challenge
Tutorials
- JavaScript30
Build 30 things with vanilla JS in 30 days with 30 tutorials
- Making your first Phaser 3 game
Learn how to create a small game involving a player running and jumping around platforms, collecting stars and avoiding baddies
- Modular Game Worlds in Phaser 3
Creating modular worlds with tilemaps in the Phaser 3 game engine
- Game Mechanic Explorer
A collection of concrete examples for various game mechanics, algorithms, and effects
- Procedurally Generated Dungeon
A Procedurally Generated Dungeon Tutorial in Java-Script
- Gamedev Tuts+
The best place to find game development tutorials
- Codrops
Useful tutorials, insightful articles, creative inspiration and free resources for web designers and developers
- Emanuele Feronato
Posts about Game design, HTML5, Phaser, JavaScript, Monetize, Box2D, Unity3D
- Phaser Tutorials
Phaser - News - Tutorial
- Ourcade Blog
Playful game development tutorials
Workshops
- Chrome Experiments
A showcase of work by coders who are pushing the boundaries of web technology, creating beautiful, unique web experiences
VR Workshop
VR Workshop at Gray Area Festival
Immersive
Immersive Three.js Workshop at Gray Area
Phaser CE Workshop using ES6
Isometric worlds and Real Time games
Forums
- HTML5 Game Devs Forum
A forum about Phaser, Pixi, Babylon, Panda 2, melonJS, Collaborations, Services and Jobs!
Distribution
- 5 Apps
Deployment and distribution tools
- GamePix
Platform for developers and publishers with interesting blog posts
- MarketJS
A B2B Platform for licensing HTML5 games. Buy HTML5 games, customize and deploy instantly to your server
- itch.io
Distribution and game jam hosting platform for HTML5 games
- CrazyGames
New distribution platform for HTML5 games
- Y8 Games
At Y8 Games, there are over 70,000 games and videos available to play online. We are leading in the latest Unity3D car and dress up games
Monetization
- GameDistribution
The biggest broker of high quality, cross-platform games. We connect the best game developers to the biggest publishers
- Facebook In App Purchases
Facebook Instant Games In App Purchases
- Facebook Games Ads
Facebook Instant Games Ads
Awesome Web Monetization
Awesome stuffs about Web Monetization. Learn more, check modules and others tools
Testing
stats.js
JavaScript Performance Monitor
- Leshy SpriteSheet Animator
Online Sprite Sheet Animation Utility
Security
- Jscrambler
A JavaScript interpreter and parsing engine that creates an Abstract Syntax Tree representing your source code to make it extremely difficult to reverse engineer
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A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen
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A curated list of awesome Phaser libraries, resources and shiny things
Awesome PlayCanvas
A curated list of awesome PlayCanvas assets, resources, and more
jsGameWiki
A collection of good links for gaming with javascript
Games on GitHub
A list of popular/awesome videos games, add-ons, maps, etc. hosted on GitHub. Any genre. Any platform. Any engine
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