Mille Bornes
http://codex99.com/design/28.html
The game was a popular alternative to Bridge and, as Parker Brothers stated in the US introduction, became “a French Card Game Craze.” To keep up with demand Dujardin moved production from the basement of his family’s home in Arcachon to a renovated fish factory. In all, more than a million copies were sold in France in the 1950s.
Mille Bornes : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Mille_Bornes_1989#
Mille Bornes is a French card game, sold by Parker Brothers that simulates a car race of 700 kilometers. This is a computer adaption of that game.
SPACESHIPS
https://spaceships.treybastian.com/
Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.
Electric Shuffle
https://electricshuffle.com/us/chicago
High-tech shuffleboard, espresso martinis, spicy margs, epic events, boozy brunches, immaculate vibes...need we say more?
NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes
https://nethack.org/v500/release.html
NetHack 5.0 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack, which is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of NetHack 3.6.
...
A list of over 3100 fixes and changes can be found in the game's sources in the file doc/fixes5-0-0.txt. The text in there was written for the development team's own use and is provided "as is". Some entries might be considered "spoilers", particularly in the "new features" section.
Diabaig by conornally
https://conornally.itch.io/diabaig
Diabaig is a traditional turn-based ASCII roguelike where you are never more than a few mistakes away from death. Choose a starting class, find powerful items, and learn new spells and techniques to face increasingly dangerous adversity. You will discover many floors with rooms filled with unique creatures, magic scrolls, unknown potions and mighty weapons. Use everything at your disposal to survive as long as possible and defeat the dragon, but remember to keep enough spare for the return journey.
The Greatness of Text Adventures
https://entropicthoughts.com/the-greatness-of-text-adventures
Text adventures are weird. They are so weird I don’t know how to write this article, so prepare to read something even more rambly than usual.
Choose Your Own Adventure The Digital Antiquarian
https://www.filfre.net/2025/09/choose-your-own-adventure/
KAPLAY.js, HTML5 Game library for JavaScript and TypeScript. Free & Open Source.
https://kaplayjs.com/
KAPLAY (/ˈkæpleɪ/) is a JavaScript and TypeScript game library that makes it easy to create games for the web. It's free, open-source and fun.
Arcade Authorship – High Score Table Credits – The History of How We Play
https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/2023/05/14/arcade-authorship-high-score-table-credits/
It’s an open secret that with the advent of the high score table in arcade video games, designers would hide their signatures in lieu of being directly credited for the games themselves.
Arcade Authorship – High Score Table Credits – The History of How We Play
https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/2023/05/14/arcade-authorship-high-score-table-credits
It’s an open secret that with the advent of the high score table in arcade video games, designers would hide their signatures in lieu of being directly credited for the games themselves.
What would a EvE online Internet look like?
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/eve-online-bgp-internet
what would happen if you took the idea of the map being a network literally? What would a EvE online internet of systems look like?
TIC-80 tiny computer
https://tic.computer/
TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.
TIC-80 tiny computer
https://tic.computer
TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.
Self-Care Jam - itch.io
https://itch.io/jam/self-care-jam
Cloudy Gamer: Playing Overwatch on Azure's new monster GPU instances
http://lg.io/2016/10/12/cloudy-gamer-playing-overwatch-on-azures-new-monster-gpu-instances.html
PICO-8: FANTASY GAME CONSOLE
http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a shell for typing in Lua commands and provides simple built-in tools for creating your own cartridges.
Parallax-scrolling effect … in ANSI | Break Into Chat
http://breakintochat.com/blog/2015/01/14/parallax-scrolling-effect-in-ansi/
I shared this video with different BBS enthusiasts. Since I now knew how to scroll the background continuously, and I knew how to mask frames to allow transparency, I began to wonder about parallax scrolling
Parallax-scrolling effect … in ANSI | Break Into Chat
http://breakintochat.com/blog/2015/01/14/parallax-scrolling-effect-in-ansi
I shared this video with different BBS enthusiasts. Since I now knew how to scroll the background continuously, and I knew how to mask frames to allow transparency, I began to wonder about parallax scrolling
Easy accelerated 3D Games in a browser with JavaScript and WebGL using Three.js or Babylon.js - Scott Hanselman
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasyAccelerated3DGamesInABrowserWithJavaScriptAndWebGLUsingThreejsOrBabylonjs.aspx
Let's ignore that we haven't got a web-agreed-upon way to do just about anything, much less basic line-of-business apps with data-bound text boxes over data, and just revel in the fact that we can do hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in our browsers with WebGL. This works today in all the latest browsers.
Quadrilateral Cowboy official site
http://www.blendogames.com/qc/
When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
Quadrilateral Cowboy official site
http://www.blendogames.com/qc
When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
DrPetter's homepage - sfxr
http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html
This is a little tool I made in connection with the 10th Ludum Dare competition held in December 2007. Its original purpose was to provide a simple means of getting basic sound effects into a game for those people who were working hard to get their entries done within the 48 hours and didn't have time to spend looking for suitable ways of doing this.
Third Cog Software - Cfxr
http://thirdcog.eu/apps/cfxr
Its original purpose was to provide a simple means of getting basic sound effects into a game for those people who were working hard to get their entries done within the 48 hours and didn't have time to spend looking for suitable ways of doing this.
requestAnimationFrame is not your [logic's] friend | Chandler Prall
http://www.chandlerprall.com/2012/06/requestanimationframe-is-not-your-logics-friend/
I think requestAnimationFrame is a great addition to Javascript, but these two points need some emphasizing:
Use requestAnimationFrame for animations / screen updates
Do not use it for anything else (especially game logic!)
requestAnimationFrame is not your [logic's] friend | Chandler Prall
http://www.chandlerprall.com/2012/06/requestanimationframe-is-not-your-logics-friend
I think requestAnimationFrame is a great addition to Javascript, but these two points need some emphasizing:
Use requestAnimationFrame for animations / screen updates
Do not use it for anything else (especially game logic!)
Object/Object Intersection
http://www.realtimerendering.com/intersections.html
This page gives a grid of intersection routines for various popular objects, pointing to resources in books and on the web.
Cosmic Alien Font | dafont.com
http://www.dafont.com/cosmic-alien.font?text=Parsec%2APatrol
Cosmic Alien Font | dafont.com
http://www.dafont.com/cosmic-alien.font?text=Parsec*Patrol
An introduction to the Crafty game engine - Build New Games
http://buildnewgames.com/introduction-to-crafty/
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how Crafty makes it easy to make simple, 2D games and I’ll walk you through the process of making a very simple game from start to finish. By the end of the tutorial, you’ll know how to start making your own games from scratch using Crafty and you’ll have our example game built and running in your own development environment which will give you a great jumping-off point for future projects.
An introduction to the Crafty game engine - Build New Games
http://buildnewgames.com/introduction-to-crafty
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how Crafty makes it easy to make simple, 2D games and I’ll walk you through the process of making a very simple game from start to finish. By the end of the tutorial, you’ll know how to start making your own games from scratch using Crafty and you’ll have our example game built and running in your own development environment which will give you a great jumping-off point for future projects.
Baer’s Odyssey: Meet the serial inventor who built the world’s first game c
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/in-the-beginning-ralph-h-baer-and-the-birth-of-the-game-console
Hexagonal Grids
http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
Hexagonal grids are used in some games but aren’t quite as straightforward or common as square grids. I’ve been collecting hex grid resources for nearly 20 years, and wrote this guide to the most elegant approaches that lead to the simplest code, largely based on the guides by Charles Fu and Clark Verbrugge. I’ll describe the various ways to make hex grids (I’ve counted 74 so far!), the relationships between them, as well as some common algorithms. Many parts of this page are interactive; choosing a type of grid will update diagrams, code, and text to match.
Hexagonal Grids
http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons
Hexagonal grids are used in some games but aren’t quite as straightforward or common as square grids. I’ve been collecting hex grid resources for nearly 20 years, and wrote this guide to the most elegant approaches that lead to the simplest code, largely based on the guides by Charles Fu and Clark Verbrugge. I’ll describe the various ways to make hex grids (I’ve counted 74 so far!), the relationships between them, as well as some common algorithms. Many parts of this page are interactive; choosing a type of grid will update diagrams, code, and text to match.
Endless Play, Endlessly Pursued Goals, and Just Remember: “Don't Starve” | PopMatters
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/170280-endless-play-endlessly-pursued-goals-and-just-remember-dont-starve/
This is a game that provokes only existential angst in me through its reflection of endless maintenance within a system. I feel like if Franz Kafka had created a game, this would be exactly his kind of game.
Endless Play, Endlessly Pursued Goals, and Just Remember: “Don't Starve” | PopMatters
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/170280-endless-play-endlessly-pursued-goals-and-just-remember-dont-starve
This is a game that provokes only existential angst in me through its reflection of endless maintenance within a system. I feel like if Franz Kafka had created a game, this would be exactly his kind of game.
Frog Fractions | Twinbeard Studios
http://twinbeardstudios.com/frog-fractions
This game is, what, i don't even. When you get the dragon, push down. Also, faceroll when you DDR
Computers are very good at the game of Go
http://blog.printf.net/articles/2012/02/23/computers-are-very-good-at-the-game-of-go
Zen19 is beating extremely strong amateurs, but it hasn't beaten professionals in games with no handicap yet. That said, now that we know that Zen19 is using Monte Carlo strategies, the reason why it seems to be getting stronger as it's fed more CPU time is revealed: these strategies are the most obviously parallelizable algorithms out there, and for all we know this exact version of Zen19 could end up becoming World Champion if a few more orders of magnitude of CPU time were made available to it.
Which would feel like a shame, because I was really looking forward to seeing us figure out how brains work.
The Overthinking Person’s Drinking Game « Thought Catalog
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-overthinking-persons-drinking-game/
When you experience a vague sense of inequity or deprivation but don’t have a template for whether your expectations are fair, drink.
The Overthinking Person’s Drinking Game « Thought Catalog
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-overthinking-persons-drinking-game
When you experience a vague sense of inequity or deprivation but don’t have a template for whether your expectations are fair, drink.
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is – Whatever
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/
Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is – Whatever
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is
Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
Skyrim NFO (Razor 1911)
http://nfomation.net/nfo.white/1320936569.rzr-skrm.nfo.png
Pirate scene has cracked the game one day before release
12 Forgotten Online Games - BBS Door Games - Slideshow from PCMag.com
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l%3D255130%26a%3D255131%26po%3D10,00.asp?p=n
"There was a time when "online game" usually meant a text-based game played over the modem on an amateur-run bulletin board system (BBS). Most of these BBSes supported only one phone line, so players took turns dialing in and playing, but they still competed against each other."
ChipWits: The Game of Robot-Programming Fun - Bring Your Brain!
http://www.chipwits.com
"The Game of Robot-Programming Fun
Program Robots using graphic chips.
A great way for Kids of all ages to enjoy the fun of programming
ChipWits will be back in late 2010
"
Solar Realms Elite 0.995: Documentation
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/Articles/SRE-Documentation.html
"n Solar Realms Elite (SRE), you rule a solar empire. The goal is to become and remain the most powerful empire. You can gain strength by buying forces, and you can gain size by colonizing planets. You start with 6 planets, and a little bit of money. You are required to feed your people and army, and to pay to maintain your planets and army. If you fail to do these things, disastrous results may occur. You are given 20 years (“turns”) of protection, during which you can not attack or be attacked. You can not perform covert operations (except Spy). This provides a way for smaller empires to build up their defenses and planets before they enter the “real world”. "
Star Guard
http://vacuumflowers.com/star_guard/star_guard.html
Mimeo and the Kleptopus King // ShaunInman.com
http://shauninman.com/archive/2010/02/23/mimeo_and_the_kleptopus_king
"Mimeo (even the name) started as a Mario clone with a twist: instead of power-ups affecting the player, they affect the entire game world. A story and mythos quickly developed. The so-called Mimeoverse consists of two 16-bit demiverses sharing 32-bits between them. When the evil Kleptopus King, an 8-bit octopus with an inferiority complex, discovers a portal into Mimeo’s realm and begins to syphon off its bits, Mimeo is sucked in and downsampled to 2-bit. So begins Mimeo’s quest to restore balance to the demiverses."
OSX.Loosemaque: It’s Not Just a Game Anymore | Symantec Connect
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/osxloosemaque-it-s-not-just-game-anymore
Must be a slow day on the OS X malware front. This is really reaching... "What’s interesting is that the author of this “game” flat-out says what it does on his Web site. Reading through the author’s description, it seems that he has created this game/threat as some sort of artistic project. The aliens are your files and there are consequences for “killing” them."
Bet Your Followers
http://betyourfollowers.com/choose
"A Twitter app that lets you wager your followers for the chance of winning more."
This Is The Only Level | Armor Games
http://armorgames.com/play/4309/this-is-the-only-level
"The elephant forgot the rest of the levels, but luckily he still has one left! Help him beat it in all his metagaming glory. Use your keen knowledge of gaming and dexterity to manhandle your way through a variety of challenges. Get your mind out of the box for once! Take it outside for a walk, or maybe grab a bite to eat with it. "
Left 4k Dead
http://www.mojang.com/notch/j4k/l4kd
"The game is inspired by Left 4 Dead by Valve Software."
The Ur-Quan Masters - News
http://sc2.sourceforge.net
"The project started in August 2002, when Toys For Bob released the partially ported sources of Star Control 2 3DO version to the fan community. Our goal is to port this wonderful game to current personal computers and operating systems. It is and will remain 100% free of charge, and anyone can contribute to the project and thus help make it even better. For more information, look at our info page."
Boxer: Mac-Friendly DOS Emulation
http://boxer.washboardabs.net
Play The Endless Zombie Rampage, a free online game on Kongregate
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Weasel/the-endless-zombie-rampage
ectoplasmosis » Cthulhu Cthursday: Elder Gods Chess Set
http://www.ectomo.com/?p=108
"The kings (Cthulhu) have precious stones for eyes; the white piece has spherical lab-created rubies, the black piece has salt water pearls."
A Triangle Morning: Games: Which Way Adventure
http://www.atrianglemorning.com/games/flash.php
SF0 / Really Simple Syndication
http://sf0.org/tasks/Really-Simple-Syndication
"Create an RSS feed of your thoughts. Obsessively post to it for one day. Subscribe to your RSS feed."
Play Castle Smasher and other Flash games at Donut Games
http://www.donutgames.com/play/castle_smasher
"Conquer the kingdom by firing catapult stones at your enemies castles."
Revenge is a dish best served with cheese | MetaFilter
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56546
"You are an asteroid that has seen many of your brethren decimated by the evil spaceship in the original Asteroid's game. The loss of your rock-fellows has hurt and scarred you deeply. Your rocky heart has ached for vengenance."
YUI Tetris!
http://www.dustindiaz.com/yui-tetris
"Using a combination of the Event Utility and the DOM Collection utility, I was able to roll out perhaps the sweetest piece of eye candy I’ve ever built."
DOS Games Archive | Top 20 downloads
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/list/top
Cultspace
http://www.cultspace.org/login.php
"Cultspace is a community of fictional priests, preachers, prostelytizers, and problem children."
jay is games: Warp Forest
http://jayisgames.com/archives/2006/05/warp_forest.php
"The object of Warp Forest is to collect all of the keys to activate the exit, and then make it safely to the exit to advance to the next puzzle/level."
rrrrthats5rs.com - Don't Shoot the Puppy
http://www.rrrrthats5rs.com/games/dont-shoot-the-puppy
"I figured out the trick. Can you?"
Seed: Microscopy and the Art of Sudoku
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/03/microscopy_and_the_art_of_sudo.php
"When Cornell physicist Veit Elser attempted to demystify an esoteric imaging problem for biologists, he had no idea his solution would also help subway riders and break room loiterers around the world figure out those challenging, Sudoku puzzles."
porrasturvat by tAAt
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=7090
Throw people down stairs in this game. It's a "stair dismount" simulator.
Splash Back - get all of the globs off the screen by pumping them
http://www.funny-games.biz/splash-back.html
Object of this fun puzzle game is to get all of the globs off the screen by pumping certain ones up and taking the rest out.
** Atomic Sock Monkey - Freebies **
http://www.atomicsockmonkey.com/freebies.asp#mnpr
"Bathed in atomic radiation, these champions - Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot - fight to the death, in order to claim the sweet, sweet uranium for their people... and victory!"
Amazon.com: SET Game: Imaginarium.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000IV34/downandoutint-20/104-7224406-0259140
"SET is a card game of quick recognition and deduction."
Canut Ki-in, club de go de Lyon / Simulateur d'influence
http://canut-ki-in.jeudego.org/simulation_influence
Interactive Go maps, shows influence and tension between pieces in color maps
A Few Words About Sudoku, Which Has None - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/weekinreview/28shor.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=12ba327cf6524bcc&ex=1282881600&partner=rssuserland
"For its part, sudoku - a short form of the Japanese words meaning "only single numbers allowed" - could not have become popular before the rise of personal computers."
Lugaru
http://www.wolfire.com/lugaru.html
Go go anthropomorphic kung-fu rabbits! "Lugaru’s primary feature is its unique combat system."
Sudoku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
"Sudoku ... is a placement puzzle, also known as Number Place in the United States."
A Sudoku Importer
http://sudoku.latte.ca
"The Sudoku Importer is a program which takes a set of Sudoku puzzles in a memo, and imports them all into Andrew Gregory's Sudoku program for the Palm."
Sudoku - My Programs - Palm - PDAs - Andrew Gregory's Web Pages
http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/pdas/palm/myprogs/sudoku
Bad, bad addiction
Space Trader Centre
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/p.spronck/picoverse/spacetrader/STFrames.html
"Space Trader is a strategy game for the PalmPilot. It is inspired by David J. Webb's PalmPilot game SolarWars ... and the 80's classic 3D strategy game Elite... "
Something in the way she moves
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2004/07/05/something_in_the_way_she_moves?pg=full
"Author on women's issues takes a look at chess and the position of the queen"
Nethack Linux
http://happypenguin.org/show?Nethack+Linux=
"This is a one floppy disk live system to play nethack on any PC you may encounter but be unable to install nethack on."
Movie Alphabet Game #1
http://www.hampusgard.se/AlphaGame_1.aspx
Evil game, guess the movie by a letter from its movie poster title.
Throw Rocks At Boys
http://www.davidandgoliathtees.com/new/games/throwrocks.html