Games
Shoot 'em up · Beat 'em up and fighting · Platform · Arcade and party games · Puzzle and board games · Card games · Action-adventure and horror · Role-playing and dungeons · First-person · Flight and space · Racing · Sports and tables · Strategy and simulation · Rhythm · Programming games
Shoot 'em up
games/shmup/: a ship, or a gun, against waves of enemies, the screen scrolling past or the enemies coming down at you; you shoot and dodge, and a level is a timeline of waves. Not a deathmatch against other fighters in one arena (arcade and party).
TinyInvaders A formation of aliens marching down, and a cannon under four bunkers. source · code map
TinyMissileCommand Missiles rain on six cities; aim counter-missiles where they will be. source · code map
Beat 'em up and fighting
games/fighting/: the fighters' own mechanics are the game -- moves timed in frames, hitboxes against hurtboxes, blocks, combos, a body as a skeleton of joints; one against one, or one against waves of thugs down a street.
TinyFinalFight Walk down a street beating up wave after wave of thugs, then their boss. source · code map
TinyVirtuaFighter Two fighters of flat-shaded boxes on a ring you can be knocked out of. source · code map
Platform
games/platform/: crossing a level by running, jumping and climbing, gravity and the ground being the challenge; the level bigger than the screen, or cut into rooms to go through.
TinyMetroid One closed world of caves: the morph ball, the missiles, the boots, the bombs, and Kraid. source · code map
TinyPrinceOfPersia Run, jump, hang and climb through a dungeon of ledges, spikes and a gate. source · code map
TinyTurrican Run and gun through a world bigger than the screen: spread and laser, the lightning beam, the gyroscope wheel, and a secret cave. source · code map
TinyVikings Three vikings, one keyboard: Erik jumps and headbutts walls, Baleog fights and shoots, Olaf's shield is a glider and a step; all three to the exit. source · code map
TinyMarioGalaxy2D Run round planetoids, stand underneath them, jump from one into the pull of the next, to the Power Star. source · code map
TinyMarioGalaxy Round a planet, over a cube's edges, down onto a platform from under the planet, and on to the tiny planet of the Power Star. source · code map
TinyBraid Run, jump, die, and hold shift: time runs backwards, and each room bends it another way. source · code map
TinySuperMeatBoy Run, jump and wall-jump past saws to Bandage Girl, die a lot, and watch every try at once. source · code map
TinyVVVVVV You cannot jump: flip gravity and walk on the ceiling, past spikes on both sides. source · code map
TinyCeleste Climb a mountain a screen at a time, with a jump, a dash, and the walls. source · code map
Arcade and party games
games/arcade/: one screen, or one arena (or a screen wrapping round), with nothing to explore and no level to cross; one rule learned in seconds; short rounds, played again at once, for a score, the last one standing or the first to five; nothing carried from one round to the next; often several players in the same arena.
TinyLunarLander Turn, fire the engine, and set a module down on a pad of the moon. source · code map
TinyTron Two to four cycles leaving walls of light, on arenas with obstacles: the last one riding wins. source · code map
TinyTron3d The same light cycles, the trails as walls you can look at from behind. source · code map
TinyBomberman The NES's stage, and the battle: you against three computer bombers, the last one standing wins. source · code map
TinyMarbleMadness Roll a marble down a course floating in space, against the clock. source · code map
TinyPang Shoot a harpoon up at bouncing balloons: each bursts into two smaller ones, round the world's landmarks. source · code map
TinyTronscroll Light cycles on a map bigger than the screen, each player's window scrolling with them, options to take. source · code map
TinyBoomerangFu Four foods on floating islands, one boomerang each, one hit kills. source · code map
Puzzle and board games
games/puzzle/: thinking over reflexes -- a set of rules to master, a level to solve or a board to win; time pressure, when there is some (Tetris), only adds to the thinking.
AiConnect4 Connect 4 against a computer that searches deeper by iterative deepening, move ordering and a transposition table, and says what each saved. source · code map
TinySokobanEd TinySokoban's levels: type them, check them, play them, export the file the game is built with. source · code map
TinyTetris Falling pieces, full lines cleared, juiced: lines burst into their colors, drops knock the well. source · code map
TinyStoneAge Take a dinosaur across stones over the void to the cave: cracked ones fall behind you, arrow blocks carry you, keys open locks. source · code map
TinyIncredibleMachine Build a Rube Goldberg machine from a bin of parts, then watch it put a ball in a basket. source · code map
AiGo Go against a computer with no evaluation function at all: it judges a position by playing it out at random, hundreds of times. source · code map
TinyCrush Crush a level flat along your line of sight, and walk across what was far apart in depth. source · code map
TinyCrush3d TinyCrush with real cubes: crush, and watch the level fold onto your plane as the camera turns straight on. source · code map
TinyFez A flat world you can turn a quarter at a time: what lines up on the screen is next to each other. source · code map
TinyPerspective Place a camera in a 3D world, then run a 2D platformer on the picture it takes. source · code map
TinyMonumentValley Walk over architecture that cannot exist, trusting the picture. source · code map
TinyWitness Draw one line across each panel of an island: mazes, dots, and black and white squares to keep apart, taught without a word. source · code map
Card games
games/cards/: a deck of cards and the rules of a game played with it -- patience alone, or a table of players; what shows and what is hidden, and the luck of the deal, are the game. Every deal has a number (Microsoft's, the cards kit's), so a game can be played again.
TinyFreeCell All 52 cards face up on eight columns, and four free cells to park them. source · code map
TinySolitaire Seven columns, the stock, and four foundations to build, ace to king. source · code map
Action-adventure and horror
games/adventure/: a world explored -- in words and turns at first (the text adventure), then in pictures, then in real time -- whose rooms, items and keys open the way on; the hero does not grow, the player's knowledge of the world does. In horror, the camera and the dark are part of the game.
TinyWumpus Twenty rooms in the dark, a smell, a draft, a rustle of bats, and five crooked arrows. source · code map
TinyZork A white house, a trap door, a troll, and a grue in the dark, in words only. source · code map
TinyAdventure A square, three castles' worth of keys, three dragons, a sword, and the enchanted chalice to bring home. source · code map
TinyManiacMansion Past the purple tentacle and into Dr. Fred's lab, a verb and a click at a time. source · code map
TinyZeldaLinkPast Hyrule scrolling past, soldiers and bushes to cut, three pendants, and the Master Sword in the Lost Woods. source · code map
TinyAloneInTheDark A house at night seen by fixed cameras, a locked study, and something in the corridor. source · code map
TinyMyst A deserted island, four marker switches, a library, two brothers trapped in two books, and a secret behind the shelf. source · code map
TinyTombRaider A raider in a tomb dug into a cave: a chasm, a slide, ledges, a block, an idol, a boulder. source · code map
TinyGTA A city from above: any car is yours, phones ring with work, and the police count your crimes in stars. source · code map
TinyMetalGearSolid Across an enemy base to the elevator, unseen, with a radar, a knock and a cardboard box. source · code map
TinyZeldaOcarina Across Hyrule Field by day and by night to a temple, and a Stalfos whose shield must be got round. source · code map
TinyIco Lead Yorda by the hand out of a castle: pull her up ledges, call her over gaps, beat off the shadows that come for her. source · code map
TinyJourney Walk, slide and fly across a desert to the light on the mountain, a stranger in white at your side. source · code map
Role-playing and dungeons
games/rpg/: a character who grows -- hit points, levels, items -- through a dungeon of many rooms or levels, often generated, fought in turns or in real time.
TinyGauntlet2 Four heroes, a dungeon seen from above, and generators spawning crowds. source · code map
TinyDungeonMaster One hero underground, a step at a time, with a torch and no map. source · code map
First-person
games/fps/: the world seen through the eyes of whoever you play, on foot -- shooting, building or breaking; and each game here is also about its view, from a raycaster to a real 3D renderer.
TinyFortnite Sixteen out of a flying bus onto an island, a storm closing in, and walls, floors and ramps built in a second. source · code map
Flight and space
games/flight/: flying a craft in three dimensions (or its top-down shadow), over terrain, through space or down a mine; the controls of a vehicle that is not on the ground.
Racing
games/racing/: a course driven round against the clock or against other drivers; the road, the track or the map, and the car on it.
TinyGranTrak10 One white car on a black track, alone against the clock, a gear lever and oil slicks. source · code map
TinySuperSprint Four little cars on a figure eight with a bridge, golden wrenches buying upgrades. source · code map
TinySuperOffRoad Four trucks in a dirt stadium seen from the stands, over a jump, the whoops, a hill and a mud hole. source · code map
TinySupercars Three laps against three cars on a scrolling track, missiles, and a shop between races. source · code map
TinyMarioKart A kart race on a Mode 7 floor, and the balloon battle on Battle Course 1, alone or two in a split screen. source · code map
TinyVirtuaRacing Five laps of Big Forest, Bay Bridge or Acropolis against fifteen formula cars and the clock (or TinyOutRun's coast), chosen on a turning model of each course. source · code map
TinyMarioKart64 Three laps against seven karts, item boxes, and a four-player battle. source · code map
TinyBigRedRacing Three laps against three drivers over the Highlands, down a red canyon and on the Moon, a vehicle per course. source · code map
TinyIgnition A sports car, a police car and a school bus racing a country road seen from above, over two ramps; two players side by side. source · code map
Sports and tables
games/sports/: a sport or a table game played on the screen as it is played off it -- a ball or a puck, a pitch or a table, its physics and its rules (or, like Speedball's, rules it could have), and a team or an opponent to beat. The table games count: pinball and air hockey (Shufflepuck) are simulated tables. Pong is not here: it only borrowed tennis's idea, two paddles and a ball, and is an arcade game.
TinyTennisForTwo Tennis from the side on an oscilloscope, a knob and a button each. source · code map
TinySensibleSoccer Football with aftertouch, the third answer to the ball question. source · code map
TinyTonyHawk Two minutes on a half-pipe seen from the side: pump, fly, flip, grab, and chain it all. source · code map
Strategy and simulation
games/strategy/: planning over reflexes, at a scale above one character -- an army, a squad in turns, a city, a civilization -- or a system to run and keep alive.
TinyHamurabi Ten years of ancient Sumer, a harvest at a time, typed on a teletype. source · code map
Rhythm
games/rhythm/: pressing in time with music, judged by the music's clock rather than the screen's.
Programming games
games/programming/: you win by writing the program that plays -- the player is a programmer, the game a machine and its rules, and a match is programs run against the machine or against each other.
