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Eleven Browser Games in a Week — What a Design System Buys You

DEV Community·pickuma·6 months ago
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A week ago play.pickuma.com had two games. As of today it has eleven. The new nine took less wall-clock time per game than the first two did — by a wide margin. The interesting part wasn't the game logic. It was the chrome.

The eleven

In order of build time, fastest first:

Reaction — wait for green, click ASAP, five rounds median. 1 hour.

Numbers — Schulte table, click 1 to N in order on a shuffled grid. 2 hours.

Color Match — a hex code, twelve swatches, pick the matching one. 2 hours.

Color Echo — Simon-style memory, every round adds one. 3 hours.

Perfect Square — draw a closed square in one stroke; we compute corner angles and side ratios. 4 hours.

Stack — drop a moving block on a tower; misaligned edges fall off. 4 hours.

Knife Hit — throw knives at a rotating target; don't clash with knives already stuck. 5 hours.

Crossing — Frogger-style endless lane crossing, one button to step. 5 hours.

Paper Plane — Flappy-style one-button side-scroll.…

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