Frank Force is a programmer and game developer based in Austin Texas. He has worked at studios including Rooster Teeth, Certain Affinity, Volition, and Midway Games, and also has independently released a large catalog of games and tools. He is the creator of the open source LittleJS game engine and ZzFX sound effects generator.
Frank has extensive programming experience in C++ and other languages, but is also known for JavaScript size coding and generative art. He is a master of size coding and has published over 1,000 tiny JavaScript demos. He has received considerable recognition for his work incuding winning Best Illusion of the Year 2019 with a JavaScript program.
When not making games, he enjoys cooking, gardening, learning Italian, playing guitar, and working on his house, where he lives with his wife and cat.
Check out my portfolio on GitHub.
- LittleJS Engine - Tiny fast open source HTML5 game engine demos
- LittleJS Arcade - A collection of 50+ classic arcade style games made with LittleJS app
- The Gateless Gate 3D - An interactive edition of the Mumonkan, in your browser app
- Cosmodial Sky Atlas - Night sky explorer and star map app
- ZzFX Sound Effect Generator - Open source JavaScript Sound FX System editor
- JSONCrush - Compress JSON into URL friendly strings demo
- ZzArt - Abstract Art Evolution - Generate abstract art by evolving GLSL shaders demo
- Tiny Code Experiments - Programs with very small source code
- Lentando - Private habit and substance tracker app
- fxhash archive - An archive and museum of fxhash on Tezos app
- Arcobaleno - Italian language practice app
- SP13KTRA - Full spectrum racing source
- Sunshine Golf Classic - Chill minimal 3D golf source
- DR1V3N WILD - Procedural arcade driving game source
- GoYomi - Learn Go with a coach that explains moves source
- Reversiology - Reversi game with built in coach source
- Backgammonics - Learn Backgammon by playing. source
- Space Huggers - Run and gun platformer roguelike source writeup
- L1TTL3 PAWS - Physics based cat sliding game source
- Bounce Back - Retro boomerang roguelite adventure source writeup
- Bogus Roads - Lowrez Retrowave Racing music
- Undergrowth: A Tale From O Monolith – Promo game for the band Squid
- GoYumi - Learn Go on a 9×9 board with an AI coach. source
- JavaScript Haikus – Live at Nerd Nite Austin 2024
- Making Awesome Games with LittleJS – JS GameDev Summit 2022
- Artist Spotlight: Frank Force – Interview with 256Art 2023
- How to Make a Game in 48 Hours – Live at MAGFest 2015
- How to Make a Game in 48 Hours Revisited – Live at MAGFest 2018
- Make a city sunset with JavaScript in only 140 Bytes - Self Published 2020