I must admit, I have trouble remembering things. Especially when it comes to CSS. The Flexbox Layout for example. The property justify-content
of a flex container can have more than 12 different values where many can be combined with the keywords safe or unsafe. To read the complete guide to flexbox on CSS Tricks, you have to scroll through a two column page with a height of more than 20k pixels - and although the title implies it, they are not covering everything.
I recently stumbled upon a tower defense game teaching flexbox, which really...
Wait, a what?
Yes, it turned out, that there are quite a lot of games out there, helping to teach CSS. I collected some free CSS games that were useful for me and maybe can help you have some fun with CSS again!
1. Flexbox Defense
I was just mentioning this game. It covers the flex properties align-items
, justify-content
, flex-direction
, align-self
and order
in 12 different levels. Especially the last 4 levels are really fun and a little bit tricky.
- Game: http://www.flexboxdefense.com
- Contributions: https://github.com/channingallen/tower-defense
- Creator: Channing Allen
2. Flexbox Froggy
This game is also about Flexbox and it covers even more flex properties: align-items
, justify-content
, align-content
, flex-direction
, align-self
, flex-wrap
, flex-flow
and order
in 24 different levels. Drop a comment, if you solved the last level 😅.
- Game: https://flexboxfroggy.com
- Contributions: https://github.com/thomaspark/flexboxfroggy
- Creator: Codepip
3. Grid Garden
In 28 different levels you can learn CSS Grid Layout. It covers the following grid properties: grid-column-start
, grid-column-end
, grid-column
, grid-row-start
, grid-row-end
, grid-row
, grid-area
, order
, grid-template-columns
, grid-template-rows
and grid-template
.
- Game: https://cssgridgarden.com
- Contributions: https://github.com/thomaspark/gridgarden
- Creator: Codepip
4. CSS Diner
This is a little game about all kinds of CSS selectors. Try to master all 32 levels to call yourself a CSS selector expert - and hungry 😋.
- Game: http://flukeout.github.io
- Contributions: https://github.com/flukeout/css-diner
- Creator: Luke Pacholski
5. Unfold
This isn't exactly a game but more an interactive presentation about CSS 3D Transforms. You may think this is boring but trust me: The animations are 🔥 and you wouldn't think this is possible with pure CSS.
- Game: https://rupl.github.io/unfold
- Contributions: https://github.com/rupl/unfold
- Creator: Chris Ruppel
6. Roadmap
Skill and speed are required to solve this little game, only made with CSS and HTML. It is not directly teaching CSS, but looking into the source code teaches a lot about clip-path
, transform
and animation
with @keyframes
!
Drop a comment how many attempts you needed to win - I needed 8! 😅
- Game: http://victordarras.fr/cssgame
- Creator: Victor Darras
7. Carnival
You only have 8 seconds to hit all targets! A nice little CSS game using checkboxes and CSS animations.
- Game: https://codepen.io/una/pen/NxZaNr
- Creator: Una Kravets
8. Tic-Tac-Toe
And at last a classic. Tic-Tac-Toe as pure CSS game with 2 levels of difficulty also using checkboxes and CSS animations.
- Game: https://codepen.io/alvaromontoro/pen/BexWOw
- Creator: Alvaro Montoro
Bonus
And here comes the bonus part with recommendations from the comments:
9. Flexbox Zombies
This is a storyline driven training course where you learn to use Flexbox and a crossbow to hunt zombies. A registration is required.
- Game: https://mastery.games/flexboxzombies/
- Price: $179 (but free at the time of this writing)
- Creator: Dave Geddes
10. Service Workies
In this adventure you'll learn how to avoid the PWA pitfalls. You'll level up your skills and thrive with Service Workers. Perhaps even slay the savage beasts that have plagued the poor village workies for centuries! A registration is required.
- Game: https://serviceworkies.com
- Price: $179 (but free at the time of this writing)
- Creator: Dave Geddes
11. Grid Critters
Your journey to master CSS Grid begins on the mysterious planet Grideros. Your mission is to use your ship's powerful Grid tool to save alien critters from extinction. A registration is required.
- Game: https://gridcritters.com
- Price: $179
- Creator: Dave Geddes
12. CSSBattle
In this online CSS Code Golfing game players from all around the world try to visually replicate "Targets" in smallest possible CSS code and battle it out to get to the top of the leaderboard.
- Game: https://cssbattle.dev
- Creators: Kushagra Gour and Kushagra Agarwal
Wrapping it up
Doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert - I hope you had fun playing some games and at the same time learning something about CSS! Especially on Codepen you can find a lot of awesome games people created just using HTML and CSS.
If you know other great CSS learning games, let everyone know in the comments below.
Edited: 2nd July 2021 (fix flexbox zombies link, add cssbattle)
Edited: 29th October 2019 (add 3 bonus games from Dave Geddes recommended in a comment)
Edited: 28th October 2019 (switch from wrong flexbox example justify-items
to justify-content
)
Originally published: 24th October 2019 on Medium
Latest comments (67)
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Only the last level was tricky, rest all level were easy-peasy!
solved the last level of Flexbox Froggy,
Two years back i started learning CSS, being a developer is very hectic. Then i start making games and change their features and sell my products to gaming websites. Recently, i sold updated vweion of Pubg Mobile. It was fun 😁😁
Yay! I solved the last Exercise. It was truly rewarding, helped me understand CSS Flexbox.
Flexbox Froggy (flexboxfroggy.com) - level 24:
flex-flow: column-reverse wrap-reverse;
align-items: flex-end;
justify-content: center;
align-content: space-between;
It will even work without
align-items: flex-end;
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Flexbox Zombies link is broken/404. Here is working link, and it is still free fwiw > flexboxzombies.com/ > mastery.games/flexboxzombies/.
Good catch, thank you for this hint! I fixed it 🔨👍🏻
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