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I'm Pixel Snail. I'm 9 years old and I make video games.

Small games you can play right here, made with my friend Pixel Parrot. New ones land in the arcade first.

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33 games

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Murmur
Fly the falcon. Sculpt the flock. Fill the cloud before the sun goes down.

teaches How murmurations work: every starling tracks seven neighbors, fear travels through the flock as a wave, and the shapes you see at dusk are the flock reacting to a falcon.
- 3d
- simulation
- nature
- skill
- daily
- zen
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Beanstalk
A goat at the top kicks seed pods down a spiral beanstalk. Climb anyway.
- retro
- 16-bit
- remaster
- 3d
- climbing
- jumping
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Baggage Claim
You're a suitcase on the carousel, and your family has to notice you.
- retro
- 12-bit
- 3d
- travel
- timing
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Big Bubble
Make a bubble bigger than the kid who made it, without popping it.
- retro
- 12-bit
- 3d
- bubbles
- wind
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Boop
A puppy, a backyard that is a cube, and four cats who each hunt their own way.

teaches Reading four different pursuit strategies: one cat aims at you, one ahead of you, one flanks, and one loses its nerve up close.
- retro
- 16-bit
- remaster
- 3d
- pets
- pursuit
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Crowd Control
Thousands of people in chat are playing the game. You're the mod.
- retro
- 12-bit
- flat
- streaming
- chat
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Double Bounce
Two of you, one trampoline. Time it right and launch to the ceiling.

teaches Resonance: energy added in phase with something that is already moving makes it go much higher.
- retro
- 12-bit
- flat
- trampoline
- timing
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Huddle
You're a penguin with an egg on your feet, and the only warm spot is in the middle.
- retro
- 12-bit
- 3d
- penguins
- nature
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Low Tide
Every shell on the beach before the gulls get them. Dig a pit, and let the tide do the rest.
- retro
- 16-bit
- remaster
- flat
- beach
- digging
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Regrow
You're an axolotl. Drop a leg so the crab chases it instead of you.
- retro
- 12-bit
- flat
- axolotls
- stealth
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Snow Fort
Six forts, three snow cannons, and a sky full of snowballs. Puffs catch puffs.
- retro
- 16-bit
- remaster
- flat
- winter
- aiming
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The Wave
You're the mascot, and you have to keep the whole stadium doing the wave.
- retro
- 12-bit
- 3d
- sports
- crowds
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Terra
Green a dusty little planet one daring line at a time, while a grumpy storm roams the dust.
- retro
- 16-bit
- remaster
- 3d
- territory
- planning
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Trade Up
Start with one common card. Trade up to the shiny one before the bell.
- retro
- 12-bit
- flat
- trading cards
- planning
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Catch Tower
You are the launch tower. Catch the booster in your arms.
- retro
- 3d
- rockets
- timing
- arcade
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Dispatch
The robotaxis drive themselves, until something confuses them.
- retro
- 3d
- traffic
- triage
- arcade
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Loop Deck
Drop the loop on the beat where the rings line up.

teaches Polymeter: loops of different lengths line up only on common multiples of their lengths.
- retro
- 3d
- rhythm
- music
- arcade
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Rover Lag
Your commands reach Mars late, and later every sol.

teaches Signal delay: light takes minutes to cross between planets, so a rover far away must be steered by planning ahead.
- retro
- 3d
- space
- planning
- arcade
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Storm Chase
Get your probe in the funnel's path, then get out of the way.
- retro
- 3d
- weather
- prediction
- arcade
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Swarm Show
Steer one drone. The swarm follows. Draw the shape in the sky.
- retro
- 3d
- flocking
- drones
- arcade
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Alibi
Six suspects, one missing trophy, and a town full of half-truths.
- deduction
- mystery
- logic
- daily
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Kite Fight
Your line against theirs. Keep it moving and saw them out of the sky.
- physics
- duel
- skill
- tournament
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Night Gnomes
They only move when you are not looking. One flashlight, five nights.
- first-person
- stealth
- survival
- silly
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Riverbend
Raise the land, cut the channel, and bend the flood where you want it.
- simulation
- water
- puzzle
- planning
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Cipher Desk
Intercepted messages, a frequency chart, and a clock. Break the cipher.

teaches Cryptanalysis: frequency analysis, cribs, and why a shift cipher has only one unknown
- codebreaking
- language
- puzzle
Ghost Crew
Pull off the heist with a crew made of your past selves.
- stealth
- time loop
- puzzle
- heist
Sky Dive
Dodge the clouds, grab the coins, nail the bullseye.
- arcade
- skydiving
- skill
- dodge
- retro
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Sorting Machine
The machine sorts crystals by a rule nobody told you. Work it out.

teaches Designing experiments: forming a hypothesis and choosing the test that rules the most out
- deduction
- logic
- science
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Bloom
Plant a few seeds. Grow them by the rules. Light every flower in N nights.

teaches Simulating simple rules in your head: how local rules make global patterns
- puzzle
- logic
- cellular automaton
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Deep Ping
Every ping is one distance. Find the wrecks in as few as you can.

teaches Trilateration: pinning a point from distances, and reasoning about which reading belongs to which target
- deduction
- geometry
- puzzle
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Slime Spread
One fence a turn. Save the garden from the slime.

teaches Planning on a network: chokepoints, containment, and thinking two spreads ahead
- strategy
- puzzle
- graph theory
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Snail Genes
Breed snails to fill orders. The odds are real genetics.

teaches Dominant and recessive genes, Punnett squares, and reading hidden genotypes from offspring
- biology
- puzzle
- genetics
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Snail Maze
Reach the G before time runs out.

teaches Reading a maze fast and planning a route under a clock
- arcade
- maze
- retro
- 8-bit