Canvas Games

There are lots of fun uses for the HTML 5 canvas element; and what better way to amplify that fun than with canvas based games?

Same Game

Same Game

Match the colors, clear the board!

Chip Defender

Chip Defender

A tower defense game using canvas

jsCanvasBike

jsCanvasBike

Motocross using Canvas and JavaScript

Fred Jones in Adventureland

Fred Jones in Adventureland

Head for the stars in this Mario style platformer

Square Shooter

Square Shooter

I see circles?

eTableSoccer

eTableSoccer

Browser based subbuteo

FreeCiv.net

FreeCiv.net

Build an empire!

Canvas Invaders

Canvas Invaders

They came from space. And the W3C spec.

Frog Log

Frog Log

Balance frogs on a log. Simple!

Pool Table Games

Pool Table Games

Fancy a game of pool?

Snake

Snake

Avoid your tail while eating the tasty green dots.

JSGB

JSGB

Green based gaming!

Another World JS

Another World JS

This canvas game is Out of this World!

Coverfire

Coverfire

Coverfire, by Jerason Banes, is a canvas remake of the Apple II video game Crossfire.
Navigate the intersections of your city picking up bonus objects and shooting the enemies that wait around the edge of the screen for the right time to attack. You can shoot in four directions independent to the direction you are moving. [...]

JSNES

JSNES

As time progresses, canvas applications are becoming more and more impressive. Ben Firshman has written a rather impressive JavaScript NES emulator.
Rather than rewriting the game in JavaScript, JSNES emulates and reads the encoded ROMs displaying the screen within a canvas element.
Ben comments:
I got underway shamelessly porting vNES into Javascript. Although not the most efficient, it [...]

Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction

Explode them balls

JSSpeccy

JSSpeccy

Let’s go 8-bit!

JS Wars

JS Wars

SHOOT. ‘EM. UP!

Berts Breakdown

Berts Breakdown

Bert is on the search for coins. Can you help him out? Hope you like spiders…

Jigsaw Puzzle

Jigsaw Puzzle

Raymond Hill has been experimenting with the canvas HTML element and created a configurable jigsaw puzzle. Raymond’s experiment started as a simple tile puzzle before it eventually became a Jigsaw Puzzle.

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