Twenty-two games I built from scratch in plain JavaScript: classic arcade remakes (pinball, a maze chase, falling blocks, a space shooter and a brick breaker), a city to roam, a night race, a motorbike race down the ghats, a kart Grand Prix, a paintball team shooter, rocket car football, rooftop football, two kinds of cricket, basketball, kite fighting, a tiffin run, carrom, a catch in the yard, rooftop squash an auto through the bazaar and a rooftop platformer. Keyboard, mouse and touch. No downloads, no sign-in.
A coastal megacity at dusk, yours to roam on foot or behind the wheel of whatever is parked nearby. Run courier jobs, carry fares, race for cash and shake off the police when things get hot.
Three laps against five rivals on a harbour highway, a neon downtown and a misty mountain pass. Earn nitro from near misses and drafting.
Race seven riders down three mountain ghats past trucks, buses, tea gardens and the sea. Shove rivals off line, draft for speed and dodge the patrol.
Five-a-side under floodlights on a rooftop cage pitch. Pass, sprint, slide and chip the keeper, then win a three-round cup.
Floodlights, a full stadium and six balls to chase the target. Read the length, pick your shot and time it.
A taped tennis ball, a crate for stumps and the house rules: one tip one hand, break a window and you are out.
A rooftop cage at night. Charge the shot, pick your angle and string makes together before the buzzer.
Dusk over the terraces. Steer, pull and cut. Play until dusk, hunt six rival threads, or stay in the sky until yours is cut.
A side-street dash with a stack of tiffins. Jump, slide and deliver. Street run, a timed lunch shift, or rush hour with one life.
Nine coins and a queen. Aim, charge, pocket. Race the clock, clear the board with no timer, or play a practice table.
Spice sacks drop from the loft. Catch the good, skip the green. Three lives, a timed shift, or a clean catch with one life.
A floodlit cage on the terrace. Keep the rally alive and clip the lamps. Three lives, first to 11, or a single-life survival.
Hop across old city rooftops, a monsoon forest and a night bazaar. Bop pests, bump blocks for jalebis, glide on your kite and win it back from a cheeky monkey.
Rocket-powered car football in a floodlit arena at the edge of the city. Boost, jump, flip and fly to strike a giant ball in 3v3, 2v2 or a 1v1 duel, with slow-motion goal replays.
A glowing 3D pinball table at a night mela: pop bumpers, a juggler ramp, lantern targets, multiball and jackpots on a dot matrix.
A neon 3D maze chase: gobble laddoos, dodge four cheeky mischief spirits, and grab a golden jalebi to turn the tables on them.
Drop glowing rangoli tiles, clear rows into bursts of colour powder. Twists, combos and a four-line Chauka. Marathon or Sprint.
Defend a glowing night city from swooping alien kites and lantern-bugs. Rescue your towed rocket, chain hits, beat the queen.
Keep a glowing diya in play: smash clay and glass walls, chain firecracker bricks and beat three festival bosses.
Every road, pitch, crowd and car is drawn in code at runtime. There are no image files, sprite sheets or game engines behind them, so each game loads in a moment.
All of them sit on one small shell that handles the keyboard, the mouse, the on-screen stick and buttons, pausing, sound and saved scores, so a game only has to be a game. The legend on the pause screen matches the device you brought.
The genres are ones I grew up playing. The cities, teams, tracks and rules of the lane are my own inventions.
