Twelve games I built from scratch in plain JavaScript and canvas: a city to roam, a night race, rooftop football, two kinds of cricket, basketball, kite fighting, a tiffin run, carrom, a catch in the yard, rooftop squash and an auto through the bazaar. 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.
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.
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.
