🕹️ Games & Fun

Change one list of eight emoji and you’ve made a whole new game — animals for the kids, sight words for the classroom, food for game night. The 3D flip animation and the “wait before flipping back” logic are the parts most worth stealing.

Arrow keys or WASD on desktop, on-screen buttons on touch devices. A tidy little tour of game fundamentals: the game loop with requestAnimationFrame, grid collision, and localStorage for the best score. Change GRID, START_SPEED, and SPEED_UP at the top to remix the difficulty.

A full arcade game in one file, and every pixel of Smokey is drawn in code — no sprite sheets, just canvas ellipses, an orange vest with reflective stripes, and a tail that wags on a sine wave (faster, with a tongue out, when you win). Traffic escalates from cars to motorcycles to buses across three timed levels, and getting clipped costs a life plus two seconds of blinking invulnerability.

The part most worth stealing is the hybrid control scheme: arrow keys on desktop, and on touch devices an analog joystick that reports a direction vector alongside big left/right buttons, with the on-screen instructions swapping automatically to match the device. High scores persist in the browser.