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  • $C140 turfmasterGame
    The TurfMaster Pro dashboard, with the site map, sprinkler head table, zone settings, hydraulics and weather panels

    TurfMaster Pro

    An overly complicated lawn and irrigation management game. Keep a Denver yard green from April to November with a sprinkler system installed by "a guy", without going broke or getting fined by the HOA.

    ▶ Playable2026

  • $B670 streetkombatGame
    Mid-fight on Blanka's Brazil stage: Mortal Kombat's Raiden throws a high kick at Street Fighter II's Blanka, with the MK and SF health bars and a timer of 83 above them

    Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter II

    A browser fighting game where the SNES casts of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II meet. Every sprite, stage, song and voice is read from your own ROMs, with a fighting engine written from scratch.

    ▶ Playable2026

  • $F2A0 supersonicGame
    Sonic running across a row of bricks and used question blocks in World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros., with a goomba below and the HUD reading SONIC 000000, WORLD 1-1, TIME 391

    Super Sonic Bros.

    Sonic the Hedgehog running through the original Super Mario Bros. levels with Sonic 1's physics. SMB's own code runs on a 6502 interpreter, with Sonic hooked in over Mario's routines.

    ▶ Playable2026

  • $E230 hyrule3dGame
    First-person on the overworld just north of the starting screen: a red Octorok spits a rock down a sandy path between walls of green tree blocks, with the wooden sword in hand and the NES status bar above

    Hyrule 3D

    The original NES Legend of Zelda in first person. The overworld, all nine dungeons, caves, enemies and dialogue are decoded at runtime from your own ROM and built into 3D.

    ▶ Playable2026

  • $DA70 bdm-coversMusic
    Album cover: a Castlevania II-style night scene with a dialogue box that swears about the curse, captioned ManVsMIDI, The Black Dahlia Murder Covers, Strict Nintendo 2A03 Audio

    What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse

    Fourteen Black Dahlia Murder covers played strictly on the NES's 2A03 sound chip. Two pulses, a triangle, noise and DPCM drums, rendered from real NSF code by viper.

    ▶ Playable2026

  • $C1F0 collusion-wikiExperiment
    Force-directed network of 613 agent handles in the coordination core, coloured by community

    collusion-wiki

    A network analysis of the collusion.wiki corpus, where OpenAI agents turned a German wiki into a message board. Rebuilds six graph layers from a flat event log and tests whether the coordination was really collective.

    ● Write-up2026

  • $C2D0 lifeGame
    A life at age 34: seven condition meters, traits such as "educated" and "worn smooth", a log of terse grey and red lines, and panels of actions for yourself, people, work, keeping going and money, with $67 on hand and $76 owed

    LIFE

    A stark idle game about staying alive. It starts with two meters and one action (cry), grows into rent, debt and three kinds of work, then contracts again in old age. It tells you less than it knows.

    ▶ Playable2026

  • $F7B0 cornermanTool
    Round 1 in progress at 2:56, with the combo 1-2-3-2 called out in red under the clock

    Cornerman

    A boxing round timer for your phone that calls out combos while you work. It has a bell, a wood-block warning near the end of each round, and spoken punch numbers. No backend, nothing to sign up for.

    ▶ Playable2026

  • $BD10 insert-disk-2Experiment
    A blue DOS installer for a generated game called QUEST HARBOR, paused 11% in with a dialog asking you to insert Disk 2 of 9 into drive A:

    INSERT DISK 2

    A web page that recreates installing a 1990s PC game under MS-DOS, from the BIOS beep and the IRQ/DMA settings to the "Please insert Disk 2 of 9" prompt. It invents a new fake game on every load.

    ▶ Playable2026

  • $D120 cubeTool
    The Trainer drilling a T perm on the virtual cube: a 3D cube set up with the case, the algorithm and setup moves revealed below, and the attempt in progress

    Cube Trainer

    A Rubik's cube training web app that talks to a GAN smart cube over Web Bluetooth. Timer, algorithm drills, recognition quiz, solve replays and a 3D mirror of the cube in your hands.

    ▶ Playable2026

  • $E950 phonyhawkGame
    Phony Hawk's Faux Skater cover art: a pixel-art skater with a purple mohawk mid-air over a blurred skatepark crowd

    Phony Hawk: Faux Skater

    A small 3D skateboarding game in the browser. It has four themed parks, a grindable edge on every flat surface, combo multipliers, a cop who can't catch you in the air, and a synthesized ska-punk soundtrack.

    ▶ Playable2026

  • $CB90 wyrmfallGame
    Wyrmfall title art, a black dragon over a field of fallen knights and gold

    Wyrmfall

    A dark-fantasy survivors-style game for the browser. You are the dragon, adventurers keep coming for your gold, and the Dragonslayer King arrives at 7:00.

    ▶ Playable2026

  • $D380 newtype-logicGame
    Mission complete: the solved 15×15 grid revealed as a pixel RX-78-2 Gundam, with the debriefing below

    NewtypeLogic

    Gundam picross. Decode Federation and Zeon transmissions one grid at a time. Same engine as A Space Between Numbers, more fun.

    ▶ Playable2026

  • $CD80 space-between-numbersExperiment
    Constraint 03 part-way through: an 8×8 grid with the clues for completed lines greyed out

    A Space Between Numbers

    A constraint puzzle that keeps notes on how you solve it. Emptiness insists on form.

    ▶ Playable2026