packetsynth
Keyboardist and indie game dev · packetsynth.com
Indie game dev offering browser, mobile-friendly games to my specific tastes. Keyboardist of video game inspired origins. They're free to play right here.
Start hereHockey Bucks
Best first. Free, in the browser. PROD is the finished version; QA and DEV are builds still being tested. Switch up top, or press P, Q or D.
The Bittsburgh Stealers in 3D, on the frozen river under the gold bridges, inside Carrie Furnace, on the incline at dusk and in a pierogi pocket dimension. Same one button, same coins on the ice, chunky toy players and a crowd waving yellow towels.
The third Higgum Bros game. The cardboard boat race is back at Kaiser Hall, the pool drains, and every boat is a robot. Nick and Ben pilot one mech through ten rounds across New Britain: lock on, dash, hop, break the stagger gauge, then rebuild at Gus's counter.
A work laptop walks the inside of its own desktop tower in first person and card-battles the coworkers: the intern, the contractor, the Scrum Master.
The card game's combined edition. Start a run, play a hand, toggle the music.
Two cool hobos and one cardboard raft: win the Kaiser Hall pool race, then the Amazon, the Strait of Hormuz and twenty years of Odyssey for a boxcar of their own. Easy mode for kids.
One night shift on Floor 4, provisioning seats nobody will sit in. Three cards per seat, three pockets on the cart, and a ticket that says: Jared, please grab your new equipment. Liminal office horror, no jump scares.
First-person dungeon crawl. The dream Saucy has before Saucy Skies.
They won the raft race and blew it all on Neo Geos, pizza and luxury cardboard. Now Nick (board and sword) and Ben (magic) walk New Britain for cash: Con State, the Hole in the Floor Theater, the Essex, Stanley Park and the Red Robbin', guarded by the Bottomless Bird. Kid mode and phone controls.
A short PS1-look night shooter on the Connecticut shore. You're the launch tender, Denny took the club boat with a ten-pound dog under the seat, and a committee in fleeces wants a pink granite block to seat. Photos of Branford, a tide on a taped schedule, a dog who hears the flank before you do.
A dog, a window, eight chapters of sky-pirate JRPG. Phone landscape and controller work.
A party brawler on a floating sculpture meadow: four gnomes and dwarves throw Jared's mineral specimens at each other. Three shards make you a glowing geode giant. Up to four on one screen with gamepads; phone, pad or keyboard.
An audio playground: fifty-two music visualizers that move to a built-in demo track, your microphone, a file from your device or a keyboard you play. Thirteen are remixes (the games here, plus Rave Race 65, a jet-ski run), thirty-nine are a tribute to Milkdrop, the Winamp visualizer era and dungeon synth. A lane-rhythm game sits on top if you want a score.
A palace in the sky at dog height: giant 3D-scanned minerals in domed marble pavilions, and a Hall of Games with a poster for every game here.
