Six live games. Three weeks. No prior experience with Next.js, Supabase, or Vercel. This is the devlog — honest, unfiltered, updated as it happens.
Classic tube sorting, split layers that need two colours to settle, tubes that don't all hold the same amount, and a mode where you only see the top of each tube until you pour. Here's how Sortl went from a flat pool of puzzles to 240 levels across four mechanics.
Classic binary comparisons, eight new stat categories, six world-record stats with fun-fact reveals, and a drag-to-rank Podium mode built to be close every single time. Here's how Higher/Lower went from 132 levels to 276.
Palette started as one colour per day, six sliders, one shot. It still has that. But we just added 240 levels across four completely different mechanics — here's what each one asks of you.
Bloom started as one mode. It now has four. Classic and Seed were the foundation. Catalyst, Barrier, Gravity, Spinner, and Magnet didn't survive playtesting. Virus and Token did — here's why.
Duckt started as a gate puzzle. Three prototypes, all wrong. The mechanic that clicked was pipe rotation — and then a duck appeared. Here's how a scrapped idea became 300 levels, a daily mode, and the first game in a new sub-brand called Quack Games.
How we built Higher/Lower in a single session: 171 countries, 300 pairs, a difficulty curve that starts obvious and ends brutal. Plus an early look at FactSlap — the most ambitious game in the network so far.
What is a country stats game, why it works as a daily puzzle format, and where to play the best free ones — including Higher/Lower, a daily geography game from the Stoop network.
Most people assume they're good at perceiving colour. Most people are wrong about how good they are. These games find out where your eye actually sits on the spectrum.
The best flag guessing games available free in a browser — from the daily zoom reveal to feedback grids, harder pools, and drilling tools.
Most casual games hit you with a registration wall before you can play a single round. These three don't. Open the link, play the puzzle, come back tomorrow.
If your daily puzzle habit has you wanting something beyond word grids, daily geography games are the obvious next step. Here are three free options worth bookmarking — each one takes under five minutes, resets at midnight, and requires no account.
If you're tired of Wordle and want something that tests a different part of your brain — here are six free daily browser games that require no account, no download, and no subscription.
Beyond guessing games, there's a second type of daily game: arcade-style puzzles where there's no answer to look up after you play. Palette, Bloom, and Sortl all reset at midnight and build streaks just like their word-game cousins — but the mechanic is pure play.
The daily puzzle format Wordle popularised works for more than just words. Here are the best free alternatives — including a geography category that's harder to discover and more rewarding to stick with.
RotatingAlsoPlay, StoopNav, one Umami dashboard for everything, cross-promo on every results screen. What it means to think about a group of small free games as a platform — and why that framing changes what you build.
The guessing games needed databases, APIs, and daily puzzle management. The arcade games needed none of that. Here's what changes when you remove the backend entirely — and what Delta-E scoring, flood-fill algorithms, and liquid sort actually are.
The "thin content" rejection isn't really about content quality. It's about whether a page makes sense to a bot that can't interact with anything. Games are the worst case for this. Here's how we fixed it.
Each game had its own domain, its own Umami instance, its own everything. It worked. It also didn't scale. The stoop.games decision, the self-hosted analytics rabbit hole, and what a DNS propagation failure at midnight actually feels like.
FlagGuessr launched the same day as DailyGuessr. Same codebase structure, same deployment pipeline, different mechanic. Here's what it looks like when the second project costs a fraction of the first.
I don't know how to code. I know what I want to make. This is the story of how that combination turned into six live games in three weeks — and what 31 document versions actually look like from the inside.