Ideas on Screen
Projects
Game ideas, put on screen instead of left on paper. Each one leads with a playable sketch you can try right here, followed by the case for it — the design question it answers — and links to the chapters it draws on. Ideas first, proof underneath.
Elemental Sweeper
PlayableMinesweeper with a compass. Attune to Air, Water, Earth, or Fire, click a tile, and the board tells you which way its hidden node lies — N, SE, W. Press all four nodes to win. Mind the mines, and mind …
- HTML5 Canvas
- Vanilla JS
Knight's Run
PlayableA procedural side-scroller: run a knight through a shifting night, hop pits, stomp foes, and lance-dash through them. Move with WASD, dash with Shift — and you can't go back.
- HTML5 Canvas
- Vanilla JS
The Honest Timer
ConceptA management game where the only clock is the one you can see. No energy meters, no offline timers, no notifications engineered to pull you back — just a session that ends when you decide it does.