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BOMBERMAN CLONES

A working catalogue of open-source Bomberman implementations on GitHub: browser HTML5 clones, Unity tutorial projects, Python pygame versions, and the repos worth studying or playing.

The Bomberman loop is so simple, so well-understood, and so well-documented that it has become a kind of standard exercise for game-development tutorials, multiplayer-architecture demos, and weekend hack projects. Search GitHub and you'll find hundreds.

What follows is a curated short-list of the implementations worth knowing about: ones that are complete enough to play, instructive enough to read, or interesting in their technical approach (peer-to-peer multiplayer, AI opponents, novel rendering). They use original art and audio. None of them ship Konami assets.

§01Browse on GitHub directly

Three topic pages on GitHub aggregate Bomberman-related repos. Useful starting points for finding more than this guide lists.

▸ Topic github.com/topics/bomberman ▸ Topic github.com/topics/bomberman-game ▸ Topic github.com/topics/bomberman-ai

§02JavaScript / HTML5 (browser) 8 repos

Browser-based clones. Quickest path to playing one yourself; clone the repo, open a local server, hit it in your browser. Several support multiplayer over WebSockets or WebRTC.

Gold bomb placeholder
JohannesWarn/Bombermoji HTML5
Browser ▸ 10-player local Gamepads

Bombermoji

Bomberman in HTML5 supporting up to ten players locally with keyboards and gamepads. Notable for genuinely good local-multiplayer support that most browser clones don't attempt.

github.com/JohannesWarn/Bombermoji
Explosion sprite — P2P chaos placeholder
internaut/p2p-bomberman HTML5
Browser ▸ P2P multiplayer WebRTC

P2P Bomberman

Browser-based Bomberman using WebRTC for direct peer-to-peer connections via peer.js. Notable as a working reference for browser-to-browser networking patterns, not just as a playable game.

github.com/internaut/p2p-bomberman
DmytroVasin/bomber main menu screenshot
DmytroVasin/bomber JS
Browser ▸ Up to 3-player online Phaser

Bomber

Online multiplayer Bomberman-style game built with Phaser.js on the client and Node.js + Express + Socket.io on the server. Up to three players. A clean reference for client-server architecture.

github.com/DmytroVasin/bomber
Purple bomb — multiplayer placeholder
david-guyon/Bomberman JS
Browser ▸ Multiplayer Quintus.js

Bomberman

Browser-based Bomberman with multiplayer, built on the Quintus.js game engine and a Node.js server. Solid example of a small full-stack JS game project.

github.com/david-guyon/Bomberman
html5-bombergirl gameplay screenshot showing the in-browser arena
MattSkala/html5-bombergirl JS
Browser ▸ Multiplayer EaselJS

HTML5 Bombergirl

Bomberman written entirely in JavaScript with EaselJS. Supports multiplayer and is one of the longer-lived browser clones, with active forks across the ecosystem.

github.com/MattSkala/html5-bombergirl
Cyan bomb — TypeScript placeholder
DrummerSi/BomberJS TypeScript
Browser ▸ Local Phaser

BomberJS

Bomberman clone written in TypeScript using the Phaser game library. Worth reading for the type-safe approach to game state.

github.com/DrummerSi/BomberJS
Pink bomb — friends placeholder
zepdrix/BomberFriends JS
Browser ▸ Local Canvas

BomberFriends

A small, readable HTML5 Canvas Bomberman implementation. Good starting point for someone learning game loops and tile-based collision in vanilla JS.

github.com/zepdrix/BomberFriends
Classic black bomb — jQuery-era placeholder
erictrinh/jsbomberman JS
Browser ▸ Single-player jQuery

jsbomberman

An early proto-Bomberman clone using jQuery and HTML5 Canvas. Of historical interest as a small jQuery-era game project; useful as a contrast with modern frameworks.

github.com/erictrinh/jsbomberman

§03Python / Pygame 2 repos

Bomberman is a popular Pygame project for intermediate Python game-development tutorials. Both repos below are runnable as-is with Python and pip.

Forestf90/Bomberman gameplay screenshot
Forestf90/Bomberman Python
Desktop ▸ AI opponents Pygame

Bomberman with AI

A complete Bomberman clone in Python + Pygame with AI-controlled opponents. The AI implementation is straightforward to follow — useful if you want to study basic pathfinding and threat-avoidance in tile-based games.

github.com/Forestf90/Bomberman
Green bomb — Python placeholder
Maxime-Favier/bomberman-pygame Python
Desktop ▸ Local Pygame

Bomberman (Pygame)

A simple Bomberman clone using Pygame with Granatier textures. Smaller scope than the AI variant above; good for first-time Pygame projects.

github.com/Maxime-Favier/bomberman-pygame

§04Unity, C++, and other frameworks Browse topic page

Beyond the JS/Python ecosystem, Bomberman clones exist in most game-development frameworks. The github.com/topics/bomberman topic page is the best place to browse current Unity, C++/SFML, JavaFX, and Löve2D implementations. The list moves fast; a curated snapshot risks being stale within months.

Common categories worth searching for explicitly:

▸ Search bomberman + unity ▸ Search bomberman + sfml (C++) ▸ Search bomberman + love2d (Lua)

A NOTE ON LEGALITY

The repos listed above are clones, not ports. They reimplement the gameplay of Bomberman in original code, using original (or openly-licensed) art and audio. They do not include Konami-owned assets, code, or branding.

This distinction matters legally. Game mechanics are not copyrightable in most jurisdictions; specific implementations, characters, art, and trademarks are. The "Bomberman" name itself remains a Konami trademark, which is why most repos use descriptive names ("Bomberman clone", "Bomber", "Bombergirl") rather than claiming to be Bomberman. If you fork or build on any of these projects, keep the same posture.

If you encounter a repo that ships ripped sprites, music, or sound effects from any official Bomberman game: it is exposed legally and may be taken down at any point. The repos in this guide use original assets.