PC Game
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A PC game (personal computer game) is a video game played on a personal computer rather than on an arcade board or a video game console. Computer games have gradually evolved from early games with simple graphics and gameplay to diverse and more visually advanced games.
Categories
- Browser game
- Game Programming
- Roguelike
- Steam
- Lutris - Open Gaming Platform
Video game console
Games
- Minecraft
- Doom
- Quake
- Unreal Tournament
- Don't starve
- Dwarf Fortress
- Lips of Suna
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Ultima Online
- Tomb Engine - Open-source Tomb Raider engine
WebGL
- Summer Afternoon - A web experiment page made to practice procedural 3D
- Messenger - A WebGL game about delivering messages on a tiny planet
- A WebGL game about delivering messages on a tiny planet | GeekNews
- An interactive adventure game built with WebGL that can be played instantly in the browser
- You control a character on a tiny planet, overcoming challenges and terrain constraints, on a mission to deliver messages to their destinations efficiently
- Offers a great art style and also runs well on mobile
- A new project by Vicente, creator of the hugely popular Summer Afternoon
- Effectively shows the potential of web technologies for game development, and gives the developer community and gamers a fresh stimulus with its easy accessibility and novel play experience
- By far one of the coolest 3D websites | GeekNews
- A 3D portfolio site made by web developer Bruno Simon, offering an interactive environment that users explore by driving a car
- Built on Three.js, implementing real-time 3D rendering using both WebGL and WebGPU
- The site includes game elements such as an achievement system, secrets, and a visitor message (Whisper) feature
- The full code and Blender files are published on GitHub under the MIT license, and the music is free to use under the CC0 license
- A representative portfolio that combines web technology with creative interaction, showing the possibilities of 3D web experiences
ETC
- Tower of Time - I coded a tower defense game with AI and documented the whole process
- Friendly Fire
- https://friendlyfiregame.com/
- https://github.com/friendlyfiregame/friendlyfiregame/
- Explore the world of “Friendly Fire” and meet all its inhabitants in a quest to save the world from an unknown destiny.
- Node.js + TypeScript, Open Source
Deep Learning
- Korean: 스몰빌 (Smallville) - A virtual town inhabited by AI agents
Video game console emulator
Open Source
A collection of open-source games:
- OpenTTD https://www.openttd.org/
- Dungeon Crawl https://crawl.develz.org/
- OpenRA https://www.openra.net/
- Battle for Wesnoth http://www.wesnoth.org/
- FreeCiv http://freeciv.org/
- Endless Sky https://endless-sky.github.io/
- Brogue https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
- Reverse RPG https://r-rpg.com/
- Open Hexagon https://github.com/vittorioromeo/SSVOpenHexagon
- Star Control 2 http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
- Screeps https://screeps.com/
- AlephOne https://alephone.lhowon.org/
- Xonotic https://xonotic.org/
List of collection sites
- Open Source Game Clones
- Free Gamer - a blog dedicated to open source game news
- Unix ASCII games - a list of opensource text-based games
- List of Open Source Games - list of open source games in mature/beta state
- Awesome Open Source Games - list of open source games and game-related projects that can be found on GitHub
- LibreGameWiki - the free gaming encyclopedia
- Ask HN: Favourite open source game? | Hacker News
- KilledByAPixel/TinyCode: Some of my best size coding releases - Please enjoy this small collection of the best tiny JavaScript/HTML programs I have made.
Non-violent games
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618955
- Outer Wilds : Win/XBOX/PS
- Firewatch : Win/XBOX/PS/Switch
- Machinerium / Botanicula / Samorost : W/X/P/i/A
- It takes two : W/X/P. Two-player only
- Overcooked : W/X/P. 1–4 player co-op
- Gone Home, The Swapper, Fez, Day Of The Tentacle, Braid, Her Story..
Board games
Educational
- NandGame - Build a computer from scratch
- http://nandgame.com/
- NAND GAME - A game where you build a computer from scratch (nandgame.com)
Game jam
See the page.
Tools
- UniversalSplitScreen - Open source that splits the screen on a single PC so you can play local multiplayer games
- Nucleus Co-Op
See also
Favorite site
- Wikipedia (en) description of computer and video games
- Co-Op Games for PC List
- Indie games freebirdgames (developer of to the moon)
- Avangs (RPG Maker)
- The HN Arcade - A website that gathers in one place the games shared through Show HN on Hacker News
Articles
- [Original] This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser. :: Kamila Szewczyk
- This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser | Hacker News
- A multiplatform attempt inspired by Cosmopolitan libc
- A Snake game in a single 13KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux, and in the browser, supporting all three platforms from one source
Pages that link here
- Amnesia
- Auralux
- Bazzite
- Behavior
- Browser game
- Celeste
- Command and Conquer
- Computer Sciences
- Dark Souls
- Descent 3
- DogWalk
- Doom
- Dwarf Fortress
- Elden Ring
- EmulatorJS
- Faster Than Light
- Fez
- Gaia Project
- Game design
- Game jam
- Game Programming
- Gato Roboto
- Generative Adversarial Networks
- Generative Agents - Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
- Go (game)
- Hidden folks
- Hollow Knight
- Hotline Miami
- Jump King
- Lutris
- Massively multiplayer online game
- Minecraft
- Muse
- Nintendo Switch
- Nonacademic
- Nucleus Co-Op
- Only Up
- Palworld
- Phantasy Star Online
- Platformer
- Play
- Prince of Persia
- Project Zomboid
- Rain World
- Reigns
- RetroArch
- RollerCoaster Tycoon
- Rust
- Software
- Steam
- Tabletop Club
- Terraria
- Tetris
- The Legend of Zelda
- Three-descent
- Tilemap
- Tomb Engine
- Tomb Raider
- Tower of Time
- Tunic
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