Browser games I built, free to play.
It’s late, and every porch light on the street is on. Your job is to turn them all off. The catch is that tapping a light flips it and the lights above, below, left and right of it, so every move helps one light and messes with its neighbors. It’s free, there’s nothing to install,…
Lights Out looks like it should be easy. It’s a grid of lights, you press one, it flips along with the lights above, below, left and right of it, and you’re trying to get the whole board dark. Then you press a few and the board looks worse than when you started. There’s a method…
I’ve got another daily game to share, and this one is a word game. It’s called QUINT. Every day there’s one hidden five-letter word, the same one for everybody, and you get six guesses to find it. It’s free, it runs right in your browser, there are no ads, and you don’t need an account…
I made a new game, and this one is close to my heart. It’s called Zone Five, and it’s a little gardening puzzle set right here in our corner of Wisconsin. If you’ve ever looked up your hardiness zone, you know we sit in USDA zone 5, which is a polite way of saying our…
Goat Climb is a new free browser game. Steer a mountain goat up an endless run of cliffs, from a golden afternoon into a firefly night. Plays on phone and desktop, nothing to download.
In 1996, when I was seventeen, I started an internet company. It was called PowerNet Online. It started at home while I was still in high school, then moved into an office on Appleton Street in Menasha, and for a few years it was how a good share of the Fox Valley (Appleton, Neenah, Menasha,…
Neenah Cruise is a free browser game that turns the real streets of Neenah, Wisconsin into a place you can drive: run deliveries to the lighthouse, cruise at your own pace, or drive with a friend, your pup riding shotgun.
My new free browser game: Golden Hour. Wander a Wisconsin evening, frame your shot on the grid, and tap the shutter at the right moment. Three scenes, a daily shot, and a leaderboard. No ads.
When I rebuilt my old dial-up ISP’s website, everyone wanted to know what it was actually like to run the servers. So I built a browser game: you’re the night-shift admin at a 1998 Internet provider, and there are nine things broken. Fix them, or take the whole town offline.
I’ve built a lot of actual games lately: this one is more of a joke that got out of hand. It’s called Token Furnace, and the whole premise is this: you paste in some code, and a sweaty little intern in a shirt that says BILLABLE shovels every single token into a furnace while you…
My new free browser game: Ricochet, a neon brick-breaker. Bounce the ball, smash every brick, chain combos for big scores, and grab falling power-ups across endless levels. No ads, no signup.
I’ve got a new game to share, and this one’s a little different from the puzzles: it’s a cozy winter survival game called Warm Up. Living in Wisconsin, I figured I might as well make a game out of the thing we spend half the year doing anyway: trying to stay warm. The whole idea…