Indie games and interactive experiences
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Playful multiplayer game where you race by checking boxes. A delightful example of creative constraint and playful web design.
An immersive WebGL-powered tribute to the 1995 cult film Hackers. Created by David Vidovic, this interactive experience features stunning 3D animations, the iconic soundtrack, and captures the aesthetic of 90s hacker culture and cyberpunk design.
Amit Patel's interactive tutorials on pathfinding, map generation, and game algorithms.
Guess when photos were taken. Historical photo dating game.
New games for the NES. Modern creations for classic hardware.
Publisher of choice-based interactive novels. ChoiceScript engine and hosted games.
Creators of Fallen London. Narrative games with exceptional writing.
Indie tabletop games. Zine RPGs, solo games, and experimental designs.
Open source survival roguelike. Post-apocalyptic simulation with incredible depth.
Doom-themed roguelike. Fast-paced tactical combat with procedural levels.
Open source roguelike. Play online, download, or contribute to development.
Game engine deep dives. Code reviews of Doom, Quake, and other legendary engines.
Nolen Royalty's game experiments. Creator of One Million Checkboxes and other delightful web toys.
A kerning game. Drag letters to achieve perfect spacing. Fun way to train your typographic eye.
Beautiful interactive web experiments. Includes Bubbles and an infinitely zoomable Game of Life.
The addictive sliding number puzzle game that took the internet by storm. Simple, elegant, endlessly replayable.
A new type of puzzle game that went viral on HN. Simple rules, surprisingly deep gameplay.
Multiplayer aerial combat HTML5 game. Fast-paced missile warfare in the browser.
Minimalist take on Pong with a twist. Part of a series of one-game-per-week experiments.
WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet. Beautiful aesthetic, relaxing gameplay.
Indie games, animation, and art since 1995. Where Flash games lived.
List of open source games. Play and learn from game source code across all genres.
Curated list of open source games organized by genre. From FPS to puzzle games.
Free hosting for Twine interactive fiction. Many mental health and personal story games.
Challenging mathematical/programming problems. 800+ problems requiring code and math.
Free browser games. Thousands of indie games playable instantly.
JavaScript games in 13KB or less. Annual competition pushing constraints.
PICO-8 game community. Thousands of tiny games with source code.
Celebrate messy, creative game-making. Game jams and experimental games.
The definitive board game database. Reviews, rankings, and community.
Tabletop RPG database and community. D&D, Pathfinder, and thousands more.
Platform for indie games and game jams. Discover weird, wonderful games from independent developers.
Fantasy console for making, sharing, and playing tiny games. Strict limitations spark creativity.
Open-source puzzle game engine. Make Sokoban-like games with a simple scripting language.
Tiny game maker for tiny games. Create small narrative experiences with simple pixel art.
Geography guessing game. Drop into Street View and figure out where in the world you are.
Factory building game with fanatical attention to detail. Build and optimize automated production chains.
Creative code golfing. Write a function to control a 16x16 grid of dots. Minimalist creative coding playground.
Thousands of old programs, games, and operating systems playable in your browser. Computing history preserved.
Fictional operating system that never was. Art project, game collection, and absurdist software.
Protein folding game. Play to help scientists understand diseases.
Run classic adventure games on modern hardware. LucasArts, Sierra, and hundreds more preserved and playable.
Minimalist typing test. Track your speed, practice with custom texts, compete with others.
Retro gaming database. Information on classic games and consoles.
Button that takes you to random useless websites. Celebrate the weird, creative, pointless corners of the internet.
A small studio aboard a sailboat making open source tools, games, and documenting off-grid creative computing.
Interactive explorable explanations of complex topics. Game theory, anxiety, social networks visualized.
Collection of delightful interactive experiences. Spend Bill Gates' money, explore the deep sea, draw perfect circles.
Marketplace for independent games. Pay-what-you-want model, creator-friendly revenue split, vast catalog of experimental work.