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Codenames Duet

Co-op Phone + TV

Fully cooperative Codenames for the living room. The TV is the board and phones are the controllers - each side scans a QR to see its own face of the key card, then trades one-word clues to contact all 15 agents in 9 turns.

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Salvagers

Trick-Taking Phone + TV

A trick-taking salvage game. Board derelict wrecks, strip parts, fabricate rigs, and file claims before your rivals - phones are the crews, the TV is the yard, and bots fill any empty seats.

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Suit Up

Real-Time Co-op Phone + TV

A real-time cooperative trick-taker. A crisis flips up on the TV and every player mans a station, resolving each card with a flick - route it to the Captain, burn it for energy, score your station, or save the team.

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Plato 3000

2-4 Players Card Game

A live digital table for the card game Plato 3000. The TV hosts the table and keeps score while your hand stays on your phone - play solo seats or two-on-two teams across rounds of fresh hands.

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Unusual Suspects

Co-op Deduction Phone + TV

A Jackbox-style cooperative deduction game. The TV shows the lineup and phones ask the questions - one player is the witness, and everyone else narrows down the suspect from their answers.

Tricky Quest

1-5 Players Trick-Taking

A trick-taking dungeon adventure where your party battles monsters through card play. Balance winning tricks to weaken enemies against playing off-suit to activate powerful character abilities.

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Dead Drop

3-6 Players Spy Theme

A tense trick-taking game of secret communication. As spies, you must coordinate with your partner through the cards you play while keeping your alliance hidden from rival agents.

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Deep Pockets

2-4 Players Push-Your-Luck

Dive deep for treasure in this push-your-luck adventure. How far will you descend into the ocean depths? The deeper you go, the richer the rewards - but the pressure builds with every fathom.

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Cultivate!

2-5 Players Strategy

A strategic board game combining Mancala sowing mechanics with worker placement. Tend your community garden through four seasons, each with unique asymmetric abilities and roles.

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Cultivate! Live

2-5 Players Phone + TV

The Cultivate! garden, played live in the living room. The TV is the shared table and phones are the controllers - scan a QR to sow seeds Mancala-style, tend plots, and grow your role's goals across four seasons. Bots fill any empty seats.

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All-In Bingo

2+ Players Party Game

A casino-themed twist on classic bingo with betting mechanics. Place your chips, call your numbers, and go all-in when you're feeling lucky. Perfect for game nights and parties.

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Uncopyrightable

1+ Players Word Game

A clever word puzzle game built around heterograms - words where no letter repeats. Challenge yourself to find the longest words using only unique letters. How many can you discover?

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Cinemashers

2+ Players Party Game

A hilarious movie mashup party game. Combine film titles, plots, and characters to create absurd cinematic crossovers. Pitch your creations and vote for the best blockbuster blend.

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Won't You Be My Neighbor

2-4 Players Tile Placement

Build your ideal neighborhood in this cozy tile-placement game. Arrange houses, parks, and shops to create the perfect community. But watch out - your neighbors have plans of their own.

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Seven Ate Nine

2-5 Players Card Game

A food-chain card game where every creature eats the one below it. Play and reference cards from a single clever 50-card deck as you climb the chain - eat or be eaten.

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Space Station Zebra

Solo Arcade

Defend a deep-space station against waves of enemies, comets, and chaos. Mine resources, unlock tech, and keep the lights on in this fast-paced sci-fi survival arcade game.

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DeckedOut

Solo Deck-Building

A solo deck-building game of planetary colonization. Claim outposts and build your engine before your launch window closes - every turn the clock ticks down toward the dark.

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Tide & Root

Solo Idle Sim

An aquaponics idle sim. Balance fish and plants, expand your power grid, and grow your reputation as a closed-loop ecosystem hums along whether you're watching or not.

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Cantaloop Companion

Companion Utility

A digital companion app for the Cantaloop board game series - track your progress and keep the adventure flowing without flipping through the book.

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Disarming Glen

Solo Interactive Fiction

Yesterday, the war ended. Glen's side won. An interactive narrative prototype about what comes after victory, when the weapons have to be set down.

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Words in Your Mouth

2–6 Players Phone + TV Co-op

A cooperative, phone-per-player word game where knowing the live word makes you unable to say it — and talking is the fuse. Open the TV dashboard, scan in, and route the word to the last clean mouth before the virus turns you. In the lineage of Pontypool.

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Switcheroo Kangaroo

4 Players Partnerships Trick-taking

A partnership trick-taker where every trick is fought with team cards: you play one card, your partner plays the other, and whoever lays the second decides which supplies the rank and which the suit. The leading team sets a target and a window; the other team has to land inside it. Empty seats are filled by bots.

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Detectorists

Co-op Phone + TV Trick-taking

Cooperative trick-taking on a beach. The beach deck is what is still buried; win a trick holding a card that matches your face-up goal and you dig it up. Clear the whole beach before the player deck runs dry and everyone wins. Each character has a different escape hatch for the card you least want in your own hand.

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Clocktower Defense

Solo Tower Defense Keyboard + Mouse

Tower defense on a clock face where your one hero control is the speed of time. Stop the clock to read the board and build; overclock and everything races, including the hour hand toward midnight. Keep Little Ben alive until midnight, then face a boss that is your own run played backward.

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Cinemashers Live

Party Phone + TV

Cinemashers for a room full of people. The TV hosts the marquee and drops clues in three acts: tagline and years, the mashed synopsis, then the poster. Everyone scans in and types guesses on their phone; solve early to score more, and name one of the two source films for a bonus.

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Decrypto

2 Teams TableTV

Decrypto for a TV lying flat on the table. Black and white teams sit on opposite sides, each half of the screen rotated to face its team, and take turns encrypting three-digit codes with clues the other side is trying to intercept.

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Unusual Suspects Duet

2 Sides TableTV

The two-sided table version of Unusual Suspects. Red and blue sit across a flat touchscreen, each side's banner rotated to read right-way-up, and work the same lineup of suspects from opposite ends of the table.

Take Me To Your Letter

Co-op 2 Teams TableTV

Two symmetric teams around a flat touchscreen. Each team holds a cipher, transmits words that are scored under both ciphers, and deduces the other side's secret. Cooperative: one shared total. Scan the QR at the table to get your team.

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Die Pool

Solo Idle / Incremental

An incremental dice game. The pool rolls itself every second, turning pips into Energy and Heat; spend them on RedTech, OrangeTech and beyond to add dice, evolve them, and chase lucky streaks. Progress saves in your browser.

Books

Original fiction - read online for free

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The First Mender

Sci-Fi Thriller

A near-future thriller about nanotechnology, consent, and the power structures that shape our world. When healing technology falls into the wrong hands, one woman must confront the true cost of progress.

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Der Rabe

Fantasy Dark Fiction

A dark fantasy tale woven through myth and mystery. In a world where ravens carry secrets and shadows hold ancient power, an unlikely hero must unravel a conspiracy older than memory.

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Zoe's Guide to Life

Fiction Coming-of-Age

A heartfelt coming-of-age story about finding your place in a world that keeps changing. Follow Zoe as she navigates friendship, identity, and the unexpected lessons life throws her way.

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The Real Power

Short Story Comedy

A comedic tale of resistentialism. Gerald is certain his possessions are conspiring against him - until he discovers the objects were never at war. They were just waiting to be introduced.

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Nixed Reality

Sci-Fi Novel

A brain-machine-interface novel about love and identity across four versions of the same self. When reality itself becomes editable, what's left that's truly you? (Working draft.)

Salvagers

Sci-Fi Adventure

A science-fiction adventure about those who pick through the wreckage of the future for what others left behind. Every salvage run starts at the lake - and never ends where you expect.

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Lost & Found

Anthology Short Stories

An anthology of objects, keepers, and the things that need setting right. A compass, a pair of reading glasses, a spinning top - each a small story about what we lose and what finds us back.