Open Source Side-Scrolling Games

PunkPong is an open source "Pong" alike game totally written in DHTML (JavaScript, CSS and HTML) that uses keyboard or mouse. This cross-platform and cross-browser game was tested under BeOS, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Windows and others.

An Open Source portable pure Java game library with example games, Swing-based sprite animation engine, deployment framework, and firewall tunneling networking. The code is documented in the book Advanced Java Game Programming by David Wallace Croft.

A multi-platform Jazz Jackrabbit 2 server

La Ranisima is an open source "Space Invaders" alike game totally written in DHTML (JavaScript, CSS and HTML) that uses keyboard. This cross-platform and cross-browser game was tested under BeOS, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Windows and others.

Drivers, servers, and all related software for playing Virtual-On: Oratorio Tangram on the Internet.

Prototype Games aims to provide a Javascript library for quickly and easily creating web-based games that run entirely in the web page, on all modern browsers without requiring plug-ins. It is built off of the YUI (Yahoo User Interface).

RealApplets.com provides Java applets you can use to enhance your website. Choose from a collection of games, entertainment, navigational and educational applets, such as LoveMeter, RealInvaders, MoonStar, FindIt, QuothBar, RealSnow, QuizMaster, ...

This project is an attempt to create a side-scrolling game on which multitudes of contributors can freely expand and enhance. We hope to see submissions of graphics, sprites, level designs, storylines, everything down to the fundamental mechanics of the game. And we hope that a rating system will help the best of the best evolve out of this project, generating an ever-growing and improving massive 2D game. The game runs in an HTML5-capable browser, so it's very easily accessible to a range of platforms. The "iota" in the title suggests that even small contributions from a large quantity of players can come together to make something great. Being an experimental project, it may take a while to find the path, but let's see what we can work out.