Back Porch Games

I make small browser games.

Each one is a single HTML file. No engine, no asset packs, no network calls — the art is drawn in code, the fonts are hand-authored bitmaps, and every sound is synthesised in the browser as it plays. Open the page and it runs. Nothing to install, nothing downloaded, nothing tracked.

They are built around one idea each, and they try to teach it without a tutorial:

• Ember — a light that is your health, your weapon and your only way of seeing, and it drains the whole time.
• Overtone — a rhythm game where the track does not exist until you play it into existence.
• Cairn — a puzzle where every tile you step off rises, once. Your own path builds the staircase, and walls you in behind you.
• Baseload — a power grid. Supply must equal demand every second, and one number tells you whether it does.

All free, with a tip jar if one earns it.

Built with the help of an AI assistant (Claude), which wrote the code, the art and the sound synthesis. Directed and tested by me.