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azgaar.github.io

Azgaar’s fantasy map generator

A web app that helps fantasy writers, game masters, and cartographers create and edit fantasy maps.

backyarddesigners.club

Backyard designers

Draft seven real designers as chunky cartoon kids, stay under the follower-count salary cap, then post your lineup.

crashcat.dev

Crashcat

A 3D rigid body physics engine for JavaScript, designed for games and simulations.

headlines.games

Headlines Game

Guess the year. 5 real headlines a day.

anthropeum.com

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Guess where and when each artifact was made.

noclip.website

noclip

A digital museum of video game levels. An open source project.

garritfra.github.io

Pac-Hunt: You’re the ghost

Gotta love a strong and simple game concept. Corner Pac‑Man before he clears the maze.

keybr.com

keybr.com - Typing lessons

Teaching the world to type at the speed of thought! Typing lessons that work.

tinto.rafaelbombana.com

Tinto

Memorize the color. Score as many points as possible.

titlescream.cameronaskin.com

Title Scream

Type + Graphic inspiration from 8/16bit games.

gameaccessibilityguidelines.com

Game Accessibility Guidelines

A straightforward reference for inclusive game design, supporting the industry since 2012.

dialed.gg

How well can you remember colors?

We show you colors. You recreate them from memory. Challenge friends to beat your score. It’s harder than you think.

daily.jstor.org

The hidden history of women game designers

Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.

uxdesign.cc

Usability heuristics and competition in games

When a game’s UI does not meet these expectations, it negatively affects the entire experience. Сompetition drives progress (or burnout).

feyder.co

Chromatic: a colorful daily puzzle game

Sort colors, create gradients, find your daily calm.

raphkoster.com

Game design is simple, actually

A twelve-step program for understanding game design.

cluesbysam.com

Clues

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent.

neal.fun

Not a robot

Prove you're not a robot. I dare you.

uxdesign.cc

When UX dad meets board games

Great kids’ board games are tangible UX journeys.

dansinker.com

The amazing art of the video game marquee

The marquee back then had to do a lot of work, because the games themselves were all low resolution and blocky affairs.