Spielwerk 04: Mastermind
Mastermind: the computer hides a code of four colors, I have ten rows to crack it, and every row is answered with black and white pegs. A game with phases (entering, checking, won, lost) should not be…
Spielwerk 03: Tic-Tac-Toe
Tic-Tac-Toe against a computer that never loses: three by three cells, I am X, the computer is O and searches every move to the end. The board is the interesting part, because every board game asks it…
Spielwerk 02: Galgenraten
Galgenraten is hangman in German: one secret word, eight wrong guesses, a gallows that grows with every miss. It is also the first step with real keyboard input, and the place to learn how a game loop…
Spielwerk 01: Zahlen raten
The computer picks a number between 1 and 100, I guess, and it answers "Zu klein" (too low) or "Zu groß" (too high). The smallest game I know, and the right place to fix the first thing every game…
Spielwerk 00: The workbench
Spielwerk is my series of small browser games. Every step is its own element on this site, built from the same template, and every step teaches my game library, the ts-game-toolbox, exactly one new…
Spielwerk
Spielwerk is German for the clockwork in a music box: many small gears that make music together. In this series every gear is a small game. They are all built from the same template as elements of…