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Your First Game

Pick a starter game, play it right here on this page, then copy its code, hand it to your AI, and make it yours. Most people finish their first game in under an hour.

Pick your starter How it works

Every starter on this page is 100% free to copy, change, and publish, even commercially. No credit needed. That is the deal.

How it works

1

Pick a starter

Four finished little games below. Choose the one that makes you smile.

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Play it

Each game runs right here in your browser. No downloads, no installs.

3

Copy the code

One button copies the whole game. It is a single file, on purpose.

4

Remix with AI

Paste the code into Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok and ask for one change at a time.

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Publish and share

Put it online, share it in the E2 Discord, and get it into the Arcade.

The starters

Real, playable games, written to be read by humans and edited by AI. The settings you will want to change sit at the top of each file in a block marked CONFIG.

🌍 Little World 3D · Walk around

A tiny 3D world with trees, houses, and hidden gold coins. Click the game, walk with WASD, look with the mouse, collect every coin.

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Remix ideas to ask your AI

  • “Make it night time with stars and a moon.”
  • “Turn the trees into pine trees with snow.”
  • “Add a lake I cannot walk through.”
  • “Add a friendly robot who follows me around.”
  • “Change the world name and the colors to my favorites.”

🪙 Coin Dash 2D · Quick and friendly

The friendliest first game there is. Run around the arena and grab as many coins as you can before the clock runs out.

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Remix ideas to ask your AI

  • “Make the player a little red car.”
  • “Make gold coins worth 5 and silver coins worth 1.”
  • “Add a monster that chases me. If it touches me, game over.”
  • “Give me 3 lives and take one when the timer runs out.”
  • “Make the game get faster every 10 points.”

🚀 Star Guard 2D · Space shooter

Fly your ship, blast the falling asteroids, and protect the sky. Arrow keys or A and D to fly, Space to shoot.

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Remix ideas to ask your AI

  • “Turn the asteroids into pirate ships.”
  • “Add a boss every 500 points with lots of health.”
  • “Give me a shield power-up that drops sometimes.”
  • “Make my shots fire in a spread of three.”
  • “Change space to underwater, the ship to a submarine.”

🏃 Jump World 2D · Side scroller

Run through a long scrolling level, leap the gaps, stomp the grumblies, collect the coins, and reach the flag. Arrow keys or A and D to run, Space to jump.

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Remix ideas to ask your AI

  • “Redraw the level map so it has a huge castle at the end.”
  • “Give the hero a double jump.”
  • “Add moving platforms over the biggest gaps.”
  • “Make a second level that starts when I touch the flag.”
  • “Turn the hero into a cat and the grumblies into mice.”

The secret: one change at a time

AI is wonderful at small, clear asks and shaky at giant ones. “Add a jump button” works. “Make it like Mario” does not. Change one thing, play it, then change the next thing. That is the whole craft, and it is how real games get made too.

“Explain what this code does, in simple words, before you change anything.”
“Change only the colors. Do not touch anything else.”
“Add a score in the top corner that goes up when I win a point.”
“Something broke. Here is the error message. Fix only that.”
“Make the game a little harder every 30 seconds.”
“Give my game a title screen with my name on it.”

Free art, sounds, and tools

When you outgrow the starter art, these are the shelves the pros actually use. Everything listed here is free.

Kenney assets

60,000+ free models, sprites, sounds, and buttons, all in one friendly style. Free for anything, no credit needed.

Quaternius

Cute animated 3D characters and creatures, free for anything. Perfect heroes for Little World remixes.

OpenGameArt

A giant community shelf of free sprites, music, and sound effects. Check each item’s license note.

Three.js examples

Hundreds of copyable 3D demos from the library Little World is built on. Steal one piece at a time.

A-Frame

Build 3D worlds out of HTML tags. The gentlest next step when you want a bigger world.

Phaser starter template

Phaser powers a huge share of browser games. This free template gives you a running 2D game to grow.

Publish your game

A

Save it as index.html

Whatever your AI gives back, save it as a file named index.html. That file is your game.

B

Put it on your free E2 site

Every E2 member gets a free website. Your game can live on it: get your free site.

C

Share it and get feedback

Post your link in the E2 Discord and in the Live Feed. Real players make games better, fast.

Want a new starter added to this page? Build one, keep it to a single file, and share it in the Discord. The best member starters join this shelf, with your name on them.