You can often find hundreds of open-source games people have created and uploaded to GitHub. This GitHub Gist [https://gist.github.com/roachhd/d579b58148d7e36a6b72](https://gist.github.com/roachhd/d579b58148d7e36a6b72) has an excellent list of some of the most popular game projects.

Check out the readme file to view the curation of games. Once you find one, click on it to open its repo page.

You can download the repository as a .ZIP file or clone it with SSH or HTTPS.

But some projects have live demo sites available.

This project has a live demo hosted on Codepen. We can click the link to check it out.

GitHub isn't just for work. There are plenty of developers working on open-source games, and all of the code is freely available on GitHub for you to explore. Let's go over the basics.

How to Play Games on GitHub