free games for people who push to prod on fridays.
eight games. no ads. no accounts required. the leaderboards are optional. the merch is optional. the procrastination is mandatory.
the games
Debug This
three lives. consecutive solves stack streaks. hints halve a puzzle's bonus.
playable crosser404: The Game
cross the network. five lanes of bugs. reach a 404 home to score.
playable arcadeSnake but it's CI/CD
pellets are deploys. walls are merge conflicts.
playable arcadeKeepalive
two endpoints. tcp keepalives in flight. miss too many and you're off the network.
playable arenaRace Condition
two threads enter the critical section. only one walks out.
playable arenaStack Overflow
you are main(). other frames want to push you off. higher lance wins.
playable shooterDependency Hell
fire patches at descending vulns. don't let your supply chain ship.
playable platformerScope Creep
the obvious path is a lie. no lives. how far can you read the room?
playabletop of the boards
the rules
one first-party session cookie if you sign in. that is the whole list. no third-party tracking. no ads. ever. merch, when it lands, lives on a hosted shop subdomain, which means we never see your card.
built solo. expect occasional brief downtime during deploys, honest postmortems when things break, and slow feature velocity because each game is built carefully, not fast.