Hackable Games

Build Hackable Games @ Mozfest!

View the Project on GitHub mozilla/hackablegames


Visit the hackagame.org website

Hackable Games?

A game is hackable if players, who don't necessarily identify as developers or coders, can change aspects of the game and share their changes with other players. The web is a great platform for hackable games because the technology is open and you can always view the source.

Thimble for Games

We built a webmaker tool called thimble, and then we modified it to support JavaScript so that we could use it to build hackable games.

There are two prototype games, Pong and Arkanoid; You can play or remix them on hackagame.org.

There are also two APIs that you can hack with, depending on what you want to focus on:

Design Challenge

Build a hackable game!

Resources

Sharing

If you hacked a game this weekend and you'd like to share what you made (don't be shy!) please paste your group name a link to your work in this etherpad.