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💪 Train your CSS skills with online games 👾

Francesco Leardini on November 15, 2019

As frontend developers we are often called to design a neat and appealing UI for our web app. Nowadays there are plenty of concepts and technologi...
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Brian Bethencourt

Thank you for this, I love when my learning is gamified.

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Francesco Leardini • Edited

Welcome!

It is a win win: having fun playing videogames and at the same time practicing CSS

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Eugene Karataev

A great example how you should not design and code user interfaces.

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Joel Louzado

If you're looking for a fun way to test your eye, I'd recommend this game. Basically 'spot the difference' but with UI elements. :)

cantunsee.space/

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Francesco Leardini

Thanks Joel for the link. It is also an interesting game!

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Nejc

I only knew about flex frogy, glad to see there's more.

brb, gaming time

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stanley12qs • Edited

Awesome article, thanks for that. But don't you agree, that sometimes, especially when you make a development of some serious game projects, you should provide and implement more powerful solutions? When I've been working in game dev agency, and we had some problems with creating some new game art details in our locations, we've simply contacted guys from game art development outsourcing iLogos agency, and they have helped, in the shortest terms. Because they have enough of qualified dev professionals for such situations.

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Francesco Leardini

Thanks Stanley, glad you liked it

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Francesco Leardini

Many thanks Nick for the suggestion. I added it to the list.

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Milos Rodic

Thank you for this. This will help me greatly as begginer. But I have question are there more games like this for HTML and Javascript?

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Francesco Leardini

I am sure there are, but I cannot recall them by heart. But maybe I will make a research and create a list similar for the CSS resources.

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Francesco Leardini

Hi Milos, I created a new list of games for learning Javascript

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Anthony Bouvier

I'll be sharing this around, thanks. I knew about several of these and always recommend them to juniors or even seniors who aren't so hot on front end stuff.

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Francesco Leardini

I think these resources are extremely valuable, because they provide a much more appealing way to learn CSS than just reading the specs.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I have never seen so many games just for CSS.

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Patsy J. Moore • Edited

I look forward to more practical skills for gaming style. Google

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anirudh-99

Thank you so much. I am glad that I found this dev community.

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ohmyzense

This is so fun and helpful for practice! Thank you for sharing!

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Francesco Leardini

Thanks Johnson :)

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Nathan Crum

I had no idea games like this existed! Thank you so much for sharing.

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Francesco Leardini

Yes, they are really cool! Simple as a concept but very helpful to learn in a lighter way :)

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Usman Khalil

Where did you find such gold? Amazing

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Francesco Leardini

It all started when a colleague of mine showed me flexbox froggy. I liked it so much, that I started searching for further similar games. Indeed they are all great!!

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Alex Sharp 🛠sharesecret.co

Wow this is extremely rad and useful -- thanks for putting this together 🙏

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Rafael Aquino

Great tips!

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Kaemon Lovendahl

Thanks for sharing!

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Francesco Leardini

Welcome Kaemon, glad it is helpful!

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Garrett / G66

I got to meet and hang out with Dave Geddes at a conference a couple years ago. Brilliant dude. Really knows what he’s doing.

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Tkmanga

thanks you for this, learning is more fun whith games.

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Aneeqa Khan

Thanks for sharing these games - It'll surely help to make learning more interesting

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Francesco Leardini

Thank you very much Aneeqa!!

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Gass

super useful links! thanks!

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Francesco Leardini

Ah ah, indeed :)