Free HTML 5 Games

This is a list of cool online games that are built using HTML 5.

HTML 5 games are online games that runs completely inside a web browser. Which means, the games don't use any plugins to run in your web browser as it is fully developed using HTML 5 and JavaScript.

Some of the HTML 5 games listed below are multiplayer games that can be played by a massive number of players. All the games listed below are free to play. Do check them out.

Browser Quest

BrowserQuest is a role playing multi-player game (MMORPG) developed by Mozilla, that can be played by thousands of users at a time. In Browser Quest, you play a character in the game and your job is to complete 20 quests. Each quest involves taking an action such as "Kill 10 rats", "Successfully escape an enemy" and so on.

On the technical side, the BrowserQuest game makes use of WebSockets, HTML 5 Canvas, Web Workers, localStorage, CSS Media queries, and HTML 5 audio.

The game can be played in any modern web browser including Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera, and Safari. And in multiple operating systems like Windows, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, IOS, and Android.

The game allows players to chat with each other through text messages while playing.

Bombermine

Bombermine is a fabulous multiplayer game developed using HTML5 and Javascript that allows up to 1000 players to join the game at any time.

As a player, your goal in Bombermine is to strategically place bombs so as to kill all your enemies and destroy obstacles. Exploding bombs can set off other bombs, kill or injure enemies and destroy obstacles. However, they can also kill or injure the player character ending the game, or destroy powerups. It is a fun game that you can play to kill time.

FreeCiv-web

FreeCiv-web is a clone of the popular game FreeCiv. This is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. The game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the Stone Age to the Space Age...

FreeCiv-web can be played online using a desktop computer, mobile phone or tablet. It has also been optimized for the iPhone 5 on mobile, and modern HTML5 browsers such as Chrome and Firefox.

Minefield

Minefield is a clone of the popular and ubiquitous Windows game Minesweeper. Those who have played Minesweeper in Windows need no introduction to this game.

For the freshers, the rules of the game are simple. You have to clear the mines off the field. You play on the endless field with other people. If you set a flag on a wrong place or open a mine - your game is over.

This game is developed using HTML5 and the Javascript library Node.js.

Two Classic Games Developed Using Sed

Sed is a command line tool used for pattern recognition and substitution in one or more text files. Sed is also called a stream editor. It is a very powerful tool which when mastered can help you in near-magic modifications to your files - all with just a few tap of your fingers.

One of the frequent uses of Sed is in text substitution. For example, if you want to change all the occurrences of the word "train" with the word "car" in your file "myfile.txt", you can do it easily using sed as follows.

Get 5 Awesome Games For A Steal

5 awesome games which run on Windows, Mac, and Linux - an $80 bundle. For a limited time period, you can get these games by paying what you want. You heard me right - even a dollar. What is more, you even decide who should get your money - the developers, the charity, or equally divided between the developers and charity.

Two charities are involved; namely - Child's Play and Electronic Frontier Foundation. If you wish all the money you spend in buying these games will be donated to these two charities.

A fun game for movie buffs who happen to use Linux

With the Oscar fever running high, there is towering expectations all around for all the Oscar nominees. So it was only a matter of time before someone jumped into the fray and created a game featuring all the movies, directors and actors nominated for the Oscar award. The beauty of the game is that it is played exclusively in YouTube - the popular video sharing site of Google.

The game titled "2009 Oscar Interactive Photo Hunt" is simple to play. You will be shown two nearly identical photos (there is just one subtle difference) of the people and movie stills associated with the Oscar Awards and you have to find the difference between the two images. You get 30 seconds to spot the difference and click on it. Once you click on the part you feel is different, you are taken to another YouTube video depending upon whether it is the correct answer or not.

There is only one rule... No pausing of the video at any stage is allowed. There are 30 levels in the game. The first 14 levels are quite easy. But from the 15th level, the solution gets more and more elusive. A fabulous idea, great game surrounding the Oscar theme and intelligent use of a popular free service. The game has been developed by DailyFill.com. To start playing the game, watch the following video and do as you are directed.

If you are unable to watch the preceding YouTube video, in all probability you do not have Flash player plugin installed on your machine. Read the following article to install flash player plugin in Linux.

Enabling Directx 9.0 in Linux using Wine

It is a foregone conclusion that Linux has made deep inroads into the Windows arena and has succeeded in providing a robust user friendly Desktop which any lay person can use. But there are still a few areas where Linux lags way behind Windows.One of them is Games.

The problem is that most commercial games worth their name are developed using a proprietary technology developed by Microsoft called DirectX. It is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video. And as with all things Microsoft, DirectX too runs only on the Windows platform.

The latest version of DirectX is ver 10. But there is hope around the horizon for those die-hard gamers who would love to run their favorite game in Linux. Now it is possible to install DirectX libraries albeit version 9.0 in Linux using Wine.

The Wine review blog has an elaborate article giving step-by-step details of how to install DirectX 9.0c in Linux under Wine. Finally you will be able to play those fabulous games which you have stored in your attic by installing them in Linux.