About PixelBreak

PixelBreak is a small browser arcade I built myself. Its 49 games run in the browser — there is nothing to download and no launcher to install. Open it on a phone, an iPad, a school laptop or a desktop, pick a game, and it starts immediately. High scores and supported game progress are saved for you.

What's in it

Big games save progress and are made for returning to, from Theme Park Tycoon to Tower Defense and Burger Rush. Play together collects online and local multiplayer in one place. Quick games are made for one sitting. You can also browse across those sections by puzzle, action, driving or creative games.

Playing against someone else

A handful of games are built for two people rather than one. Tank Wars, Neon Pong, Air Hockey and Pixel Fighters can each be played three ways: two players sharing one keyboard, one player against the computer, or across two separate devices. For the two-device mode, one player starts a room and the other joins by typing the room code — useful when two people have an iPad each and are sitting in the same room. There is no matchmaking and no chat; the room code is the whole system.

Controls

On a computer the games use the arrow keys and the space bar. On a touchscreen an on-screen D-pad and action button appear underneath the game, so everything is playable without a keyboard.

Where the games come from

All of the built-in games were written from scratch for this site. Several are openly inspired by well-known arcade concepts — the kind of games most people have played some version of — but the code, the artwork and the level design are my own, and none of it is copied from another game. If something is buggy or unfair, there is a feedback button at the top of the page and I do read it.