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17 jQuery powered web games with source code

April 13, 2010 • Game design, Javascript, Links by Emanuele Feronato • 15 Comments

While Flash remains the best software to develop casual web games, jQuery allows you to make interesting things… nothing to do with pure action Flash games, but in some cases you can get interesting results out of your browser.

Here it is a list with 17 jQuery powered games, most of them with clean and commented source code ready to download (and before you say it’s obvious jQuery games have source code, I mean uncompressed, readable source code)

Javascript game engine for jQuery

Not a game but a whole library to develop jQuery games

Main features:

  • multi layer-sprite animations
  • sprite hierarchies (grouping)
  • collision detection
  • swappable sound support
  • periodic callbacks
  • keyboard state polling
  • free and open source license

http://gamequery.onaluf.org/ – Check out the demos too!!

TicTacToe in jQuery

The “Hello world” of game programming, now with jQuery

http://thingsilearned.com/2009/06/02/tictactoe-in-jquery/

Tetris with jQuery

The most famous game in the world,

http://fmarcia.info/jquery/tetris/tetris.html

jQuery Mad Libs Word Game

A simple Mad Libs game. There must be something wrong with me because the author says: “If you did not use Mad Libs as a kid (what is wrong with you… j/k) it is a fill-in-the-blanks word game where not knowing the word context can lead to some whacky outcomes (and giggling fits)”.

Yes, I did not use it (do you?)… that’s why I hear “voices”…

http://www.bennadel.com/blog/623-jQuery-Demo-Mad-Libs-Word-Game.htm

jQuery Mine Sweeper

From the same author of Mad Libs, Mine Sweeper.

http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1737-jQuery-Powered-Mine-Sweeper-Game.htm

A Basic Memory Game with jQuery and PHP

Great and complete tutorial (in Feronato’s style :)) to create a basic memory game with jQuery and PHP. A must read.

http://www.webdevplayground.com/2009/09/a-basic-memory-game-with-jquery-and-php/

jTypingHero

After Guitar Hero, here it comes Typing hero, a game which will prove your typing skill.

http://www.marcofolio.net/games/jtypinghero_test_your_typing_skills_in_this_jquery_game.html

jCharacterfall

From the same author, another typing game

http://demo.marcofolio.net/jcharacterfall/

jQRPG

A very basic – and incomplete – Zelda style RPG

http://hokuten.net/2010/jqrpg-%E2%80%94-an-old-school-style-rpg-in-jquery/

Mastermind

jQuery version of the popular brain game

http://www.iohelix.net/mastermind.html

jKill

Point and shoot game, kill presidents and prime ministers

http://www.bulgaria-web-developers.com/projects/javascript/jkill/

jQuery Slot Machine

Cute slot machine made with jQuery

http://eyecon.ro/slotmachine/

jQuery Pong

it’s Pong!!

http://blog.benogle.com/2009/04/20/jquery-pong/

jQuery Sudoku

Really good Sudoku simulator

http://www.anti.ro/games/sudoku/

jQuery Snakey

The famous snake game made with jQuery

http://jquery-snakey.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/index.html

T&C Surf

Great remake of the old 8-bit Nintendo blockbuster (??)

http://jonraasch.com/blog/jquery-video-game-remake-tc-surf-designs

Tunnel game

Another classic, fly with your spaceship inside a tunnel, don’t touch its borders

http://arcade.christianmontoya.com/tunnel/

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This post has 15 comments

  1. Emanuele Feronato – italian geek and PROgrammer | Source code bank

    on April 13, 2010 at 4:08 pm

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  2. wowflashgames

    on April 14, 2010 at 4:48 am

    Hi!

    you are quite knowledgeable in flash game development. Have you written and published any games? Specifically, are any of your games on this site?

    http:www.wowflashgames.com

    if so, would you be interested in answering some questions for an interview?

    thanks!

  3. shaman4d

    on April 15, 2010 at 4:32 pm

    Well Emanuele what you think about this games? Have these a future or flash will win?

  4. Ryan

    on April 17, 2010 at 7:57 am

    We are looking for some Word Search and Crossword games developed in jQuery,

    Just like StudyStack.com is doing it http://www.studystack.com/menu-239746 Click on Crossword, or Word Search and it will create game for you.

    please share link if you have any.

    Thanks

  5. sabithpocker

    on September 17, 2010 at 8:14 pm

    great to see these games, i am creating a jigsaw game here at http://www.sabithpocker.com/ currently the code is not structured, looking forward to make it a plug-in soon :).
    nice article :).

  6. Pol_shqip

    on October 28, 2010 at 9:42 am

    jQuery rulesss!!

  7. Martin

    on December 16, 2010 at 9:03 am

    great collection, thank you!

  8. Amit

    on September 7, 2011 at 9:37 am

    Here is one more jquery memory game http://www.amitpatil.me/image-match-javascript-memory-game/

  9. maffelu

    on January 28, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    I made a puzzle game in jQuery which seems to work ok. Released it today if you’re interested:
    http://maffelu.net/demo/jquery/flooder2/

  10. andy

    on April 20, 2012 at 10:15 am

    I would like to one more game to list, jquery ping pong game seen on thetutlage.com

    Demo – http://www.thetutlage.com/demo/pingpong/

    Tutorial – http://www.thetutlage.com/post=TUT136

  11. Sumendra

    on September 26, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    Great Collection of games. Here is my game HTML5, jquery and Box2dweb powered : http://pixsansar.com/cool-box2dweb-games

  12. r2d2

    on November 7, 2012 at 10:21 pm

    Yet another jQuery game with source (public domain):

    http://marekr2d2.bitbucket.org/jMachinarium.html
    http://marekr2d2.bitbucket.org/livingHtml2D.html

    Good luck!

  13. Develoteca

    on December 28, 2012 at 5:27 pm

    create a wordpress plugin on a memory game in develoteca.com for a wordpress site or blog, hope you like it : http://develoteca.com/memorygame/

    regards

  14. Christopher

    on May 19, 2013 at 7:43 pm

    Created a jquery html game. http://snakeandladders.net/
    Please try this one and comment

  15. Matty

    on May 20, 2013 at 12:22 am

    This post is great. Here’s one more addition worthy of the list!

    http://purrfectiongame.com

    because, well, kittehs.

    -Matt

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