Editable Games
I made an animation programming language that you can type into a textarea. I make little games with it. Now other people can customize the games I make with it. I've been working on canvas language for 15 years now. Not very successful, but editable gifs turned out okay. Since it's my passion, I keep trying, and my latest is editable games - I'm not officially calling it that though. I've had some interest in advergames and this would allow designers to easily customize games for their clients - the hidden objects game being the best example for this, and the only one made specifically for…
Editable Games launched on March 10, 2025 with 142 votes, #304 of 7,215 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Editable Games is a platform for customizing browser-based games through an animation programming language that runs in a textarea. Users can modify existing games—including hidden object games—without coding expertise, then publish their versions as standalone JavaScript files. The tool targets game designers and advergame creators who want to quickly adapt games for clients. Games are interpreted at runtime and can be published to platforms like itch.io or personal websites.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Pick one, pop the hood, and make it yours. Swap the art, tweak the rules, redesign the levels. Then publish your version so everyone else can play it — and remix it too. Anything in the arcade. If you can play it, you can open it. New art, different rules, your own levels — it's all there. A short walkthrough of an actual game being cloned, edited, and republished — start to finish. This version has your fingerprints on it, not just your name on a save file. Make a version for your class, your Discord, your kid's birthday — something made for the ten people it's actually for. You start from something that already runs and already works. You're never staring at an…from playscl.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
I made an animation programming language that you can type into a textarea. I make little games with it. Now other people can customize the games I make with it. I've been working on canvas language for 15 years now. Not very successful, but editable gifs turned out okay. Since it's my passion, I keep trying, and my…
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