Context: a local-multiplayer game collection, 500+ games, served as
plain static files from GitHub Pages — https://kisnner26.github.io/2-player-web/
(source: https://github.com/kisnner26/2-player-web)
The part I think is relevant to this sub: there are no image files and
no audio files anywhere in the project. Every sprite is drawn with
canvas/CSS at runtime, and every sound — music included — is
synthesized on the fly with the Web Audio API. No asset pipeline, no
CDN, no loading spinners waiting on a sprite sheet.
Some of what that decision forced:
- 39 of the games are real 3D with hand-written physics (friction, bounce, pendulums) — rendered without a single texture file
- 261 arenas are procedurally generated per match, not hand-authored
- avatars are generated from a photo entirely client-side, no upload, no server round-trip
- the whole keyboard-game catalog (500 games) works as pure static files — no server needed at all, which is why GitHub Pages can serve it as-is
Stack is plain HTML/CSS/JS, one folder per game, no framework, no
bundler. Happy to go into how the procedural audio synthesis or the
physics engine work if it's useful to anyone building something
similar.
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The zero-assets constraint is a fun forcing function. I like that each game stays as plain static files; the tradeoff I’d watch is startup cost when every game creates its own audio context, especially on mobile. A shared lazy AudioContext could help.