Homegames is a free and open-source game platform.
Homegames is a platform for building, playing and sharing games. Published games are playable in the browser or any other client that can connect to a websocket. Anyone can sign up for a free developer account (no email required) and publish games to the Homegames catalog.
Games
Homegames classics include:
- Hot Potato
- Weed Smoke Willie
- Vegas Trail
- Halloween Words
- Hangman
Game Development
- Build and share games with friends or publish them to the catalog
- Out of the box multiplayer - Homegames handles all of the networking stuff.
- Versioning - publish new versions of your game. Old ones stay playable
- Simple JavaScript library (SquishJS) - no significant programming experience required to start making games
- The browser-based Homegames development Studio supports shareable live previews of your games before publishing.
- Optionally include a BTC address (or whatever else you want) on your developer profile.
Open Source
- Homegames has been in development as a (mostly) solo developer side project since 2018
- All of the code for the Homegames platform is available on GitHub. Everything is licensed with GPLv3 with the exception of SquishJS (serialization library) which has an MIT license. Games published to Homegames are also GPLv3.
Email: joseph@homegames.io