starting from scratch
a small arcade of hand-built games

STARTING
FROM SCRATCH

We build tiny games from nothing — one at a time, no tracking, no phones home. Each one lives in its own little cabinet. Four are open today.

The cabinets

4 games live

Out of This World live

A faithful web clone of the 1991 cinematic platformer — Éric Chahi's one-man masterpiece.

GAME 001 · /arcade/
platformeranother world

Veneer live

An explorable apartment drama — seven connected spaces, five hidden discoveries, choose what to say.

GAME 002 · arcade edition
interactive dramaexploration

Veneer local forge

The same drama rebuilt on the forge's own stack — local LLM, deterministic drama manager, 14 beats, four endings.

GAME 003 · fresh build
local llmnothing phones home

Façade the night we don't talk about

A Façade spiritual successor — an interactive drama where what you type changes the night.

GAME 004 · three characters
one bad evening

Housewarming new

An interactive drama in your friends' new apartment — talk your way through a warm, wobbly evening.

GAME 005 · housewarming
interactive dramafriends' place

Also on the bench

1 tool

Open Dungeon Master live

Multiplayer D&D 5e campaigns with a local AI dungeon master — rolls, narration and turn order stream live.

TOOL 002 · dnd.startingfromscratch.world
local aigroup login
next up — the arcade is still being built

Keep the forge warm

Every cabinet here is built from nothing, after hours, on hardware we own. If something here kept you entertained for a few laps, a coffee keeps the lights on.