Play More With jQuery Games

The well know jQuery is not restricted to just animated user interfaces and amazing widgets. There is more to the “write less do more jquery”! See the cutest side of jQuery with this digest of eye catching and attractive jQuery games. Play more with this 20+ collection of jQuery games.

1. jCharacterfall – A small, addictive jQuery game

jCharacterfall is a small, addictive jQuery game, where there are Characters in water drops falling. You can save them from a splashy death, by pressing the correct character on your keyboard.After each character save, the game gets harder and the droplets will fall faster. When playing this game over and over, you might even improve your typing skills.

2. Tunnel: A Javascript & CSS (jQuery-powered) game

Tunnel is a very basic game where you use the mouse to move your ship left and right. As you play, the walls narrow until eventually you have about 2 widths of your ship to fly between. The game ends when you die, and your score gradually increases as long as you live. When you die, your score is checked against the top 10 and if you get a high score, you enter your name to put yourself on the list. It is not too complicated and you can check out the source to see everything that is going on at

3. Slot Machine jQuery Game

Play Las Vegas style with the Slot Machine jQuery Game.

4. 64 Squares: jQuery Chess

64squar.es is a completely free, fully featured and easy to use online chess site with a clean simple interface. 64squar.es is built using Ruby on Rails and jQuery. It also uses Juggernaut (a ruby on rails plugin) to remove the need for polling to improve responsiveness and ease future scaling.

5. jQuery Tic-Tac-Toe

Play teh age old and authentic game Tic-Tac-Toe with jQuery.

6. jQuery Lite-Brite Game

A simple colr game using jQuery.

7. Creating A Sliding Image Puzzle Plug-In

Since I have been getting into jQuery a lot lately, what with reading the books and playing around with code, I felt I should try a more complicated type of plug-in. As such, I have created this jQuery demo plug-in which creates sliding-image puzzles based on containers that have images.

8. Tetris with jQuery

Play Tetris the jQuey way with this Tetris jQuery game.

9. jQuery Game Of Pairs

Reveal information to a visitor only if he/she solves a fun game of pairs. This game is dynamic and can be extended to endless fields.

10. jQuery Memotest – Colorful jQuery Memory Game

Test your memory in a colorful write less do more way with the jQuery Memotest, memory game.

11. jQuery Snakey – Snake Game For jQuery

A simple but elegant and addictive snake game powered by jQuery.

12. jQuery Video Game Remake: T&C Surf

After playing Javascript Mario Kart, I have been wanting to develop a classic video game with jQuery. T&C seemed like a good fit because its motion and overall simplicity are ideal for jQuery animation library (and it is really fun). I am fairly pleased with the performance, which is vastly improved through the use of cell-based collision detection. Instead of having to check for collision every pixel, it can be checked every 32, with huge processing savings. Additionally, the use of CSS sprites

13. Play Fifteen puzzle – a game example with jQuery

Here is minimalistic implementation of Fifteen puzzle that you can try to solve just in your browser window. You can use it to spend some time or to investigate how to use the excellent jQuery library to create JavaScript applications. The game internally consists of two modules: model that stores game data and UI that build with jQuery and contains only 26 lines of code.

14. BrainVita Game using JQuery

JQuery has rich set of feature rich javascript library. JQuery gives a big advantage of being cross browser, animation, rich UI interactions, drag and drop facility etc.. Using the same features we can build a small game BrainVita. Basic knowledge of JQuery is essential to go through this article. The google API s is loaded from the google website and hence the user needs to be connected to internet for the game to work.

15. jQuery Pong

I like jQuery. A lot. The only thing I like more than jQuery is the community of crazy plugin developers. It reminds me of the python community: anything I need to do, there is a module, and the modules are pretty easy to use. So I thought I would add to the mix. I wanted to release something that would take the web 2.0 world by storm. Something that any jQuery jockey could include in his or her app and boost productivity at least by 20 percent. So I thought, dude, new-school thought believes do

16. Roller – jQuery Game

A simple roller game using jQuery.

17. Building a TMNT Game with jQuery

In this tutorial we will build a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game as a fun and simple project to learn jQuery grep, queue or dequeue, delay and animation as well as jQuery UI draggable, droppable, effects and button.

18. jKill

jKill is a mobster style jQuery mob game. This wonderful game has cross browser compatibility.

19. Cubescape

Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but did not know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape! Update: You can no longer save cubescapes but you can still have fun playing around with cubes!

20. gameQuery

gameQuery is a jQuery plug-in to help make javascript games easier to develop by adding some simple mechanism and commodity. It is still in a very early stage of development, it may change a lot in the version to come. Since version 0.2.0 the API should stay compatible with the other version to come. Have a look at this and this demo! You can also have a look at the collision demo here. A tutorial can be read here.

21. Simple jQuery Sudoku Game

A simple looking yet funfilled jQuery sudoku. Play it with your mouse and key board. Just a click on a cell and the corresponding row and column can be seen highighted, causing the whole board to look more appealing and user friendly.

22. jQuery Sudoku

A classy heritage style sudoku game developed using jQuery.

23. jQuery Powered Mine Sweeper Game

While I was on the road going from CFinNC to BFusion BFLEX, I tinkered around with some jQuery code. I wanted to try and make something fun but not something that would take too much time (since being on the road is exhausting). And so, I created this jQuery powered Mine Sweeper game. Much like the old computer game, you can select the number of rows, columns, and bombs (using either an explicit number or a percentage). Clicking on the cell reveals the number of surrounding bombs. Clicking, whil