JOSIAH BUJANDA

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Screen time into making time.

Six browser games built with my kids, and why I keep making things.

The Arcade

We built an arcade this weekend.

Six games. Two kids. One home server. A weekend spent turning screen time into making time.

My kids invent the premise, the characters, and the rules that matter. I help turn those instincts into mechanics, assets, and code.

Every game starts as a copycat of something they love. Somewhere between the paper and the prototype it turns into its own thing, and watching that happen never gets old.

They build it, break it, laugh, and walk away holding a rule nobody taught them.

  • 01Invent
  • 02Mechanize
  • 03Build
  • 04Play
Read the build log See it in the fleet
A small cardboard arcade cabinet with a blue body, a red joystick, two red buttons, and a pixel character on its screen.

The six games.

Each one runs in a browser. The loops are real gameplay.

Neonrace running: a neon wireframe car on a night highway, racing toward a synthwave sunset between cyan and magenta track posts.

Action · Neonrace

Night racing through the neon grid.

The first game to fill the whole screen, and the benchmark for everything that followed.

ControlsDrag to steer

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Emberfall in play: the pixel hero standing sword-drawn in the vale, dungeon doors I, II and III around him and the barred throne door below, drag pad and action buttons flanking the canvas.

Adventure · Emberfall

One vale, three dungeons, three seals.

Forge your gear, then take the throne. The game that taught us landscape wants the controls beside the canvas.

ControlsLeft pad to move, attack / item / dodge / use

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Beamwright puzzle one: a glowing amber beam fired from an emitter across a dark grid toward a hexagonal target.

Puzzle · Beamwright

Bend the beam to hit every target.

The puzzle that taught us the board and the interface have to agree about space.

ControlsClick and drag

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Coaster mid-ride: two green riders cresting a hand-drawn hill, a dotted jump arc sketched ahead over rolling green fields.

Toy · Coaster

Draw a track, then ride it.

Immediate, wordless, and the one they hand to guests first.

ControlsDrag to draw

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Math Facts: four wooden six-slot trays holding muffins, seeds, sprouts and blocks, each tray part-filled.

Puzzle · Math Facts

Fill the tray, then know it by heart.

Version two. Version one passed every automated check and lost the kids in one sitting.

ControlsDrag a load

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Cat-A-Vac in play: an orange cat riding a coral robot vacuum across a tan floor, chasing a winding trail of crumbs, socks and paper scraps past a teal sofa, a plant, and a dust bunny hiding by the table.

Action · Cat-A-Vac

A cat rides the vacuum. The floor is hungry.

Thirteen seconds a round. One mechanic, and a sound pass that carries half the comedy.

ControlsHold a side to steer

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The games run here now. Tap a tile to play. The full weekend build is documented in the build log.

The Premise

Why I keep making things.

Games, a memory system, a bid review. They look unrelated, but I keep building for the same reason: making something forces you to understand it.

A rule becomes a mechanic. A problem becomes a system. An idea becomes something another person can actually use.

That moment when the relationships become simple enough to see is the part I keep chasing.

Design

Ask a better question.

Build

Make the question tangible.

Be

Let the work change you.