KGames

Free games for kids. No ads. No signup. No backend.

Philosophy

• Everything runs in the browser — HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript only
• No build tools, no package managers, no server required
• Most games use Phaser 3 loaded from CDN; Story Stamp is plain DOM
• Open source under GPL-3.0

Run locally

Just open index.html in any browser — double-click it or run:

xdg-open index.html        # Linux
open index.html            # macOS

Or use the included dev server (also used by the test suite):

node tests/serve.js
# then open http://localhost:8765

An internet connection is required on first load so the browser can fetch Phaser and Google Fonts from their CDNs. After that, the games themselves work offline.

Games

Game	Teaches
Letter Find	letter names
Animal Letter	initial sounds
Animal Spell	spelling with letter tiles
Work	oral language and vocabulary
Fire Truck	arrow keys, directions
Story Stamp	sounding out words at the library desk (synthetic phonics), with spaced review

Story Stamp's recorded phonemes and words come from Wikimedia Commons and its pictures from Fluent Emoji; see games/story-stamp/CREDITS.md. Regenerate its assets with python3 tools/story-stamp-assets.py (needs numpy and ffmpeg) and check the phoneme clips with python3 tools/story-stamp-audit.py.

Testing

Run tests before committing:

npm install       # one-time setup (downloads headless Chromium ~112 MB)
npm test          # unit tests + browser smoke tests

• npm run test:unit — fast pure-logic tests, no browser required
• npm run test:browser — Playwright tests that load each game in a real browser and verify it actually renders

Deploy

rsync -av --delete --exclude=node_modules --exclude='.git' . user@server:/path/to/docroot/

Standard static file hosting. No .htaccess tricks needed.

Add a game

1. Create games/<slug>/index.html, games/<slug>/lib.js, and games/<slug>/game.js
2. Add an entry to the GAMES array in js/main.js:

   { slug: '<slug>', title: 'My Game', thumb: 'assets/thumbnails/<slug>.svg', status: 'live' }
   

3. Add a thumbnail SVG at assets/thumbnails/<slug>.svg
4. Add unit tests in tests/unit/ and browser test cases in tests/browser/runner.js
5. Run npm test — must pass before committing

Source

Browse the code at https://www.keyboard.games/code/, or clone it:

git clone https://www.keyboard.games/code/kgames.git

The browser and the clone URL are static files generated by stagit — no forge, no server-side code.

License

GPL-3.0 — see LICENSE