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A collection of web based productivity tools and retro arcade games - built, hosted, and endlessly tinkered with.

apps/

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Free web apps and tools: a homepage of useful links, a news front page, an image editor, a 3D modelling tool for 3D printing, a scientific calculator, a to-do list, a guitar tuner, an invite-only AI image studio and a royalty-free music library.

Plob, the no nonsense homepage: the PLOB logo above a grid of link tiles for Google, BBC News, YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook, iPlayer, Google Maps and eBayPlobA homepage of popular and useful links News: a newspaper front page with a blackletter plob.uk/news nameplate above Local, National and World headline columnsNewsLocal, national and world headlines on one front page Paint online image editor: the Paint logo and name over a golden-hour mountain lake photo open in the editor, with its tool bar, colour wheel and layers panelPaintOnline image editor with layers, masks and brushes Boolio online 3D modelling tool for 3D printing: the Boolio logo and name over the editor with a yellow and an orange meshing gear pair on the workplane, beside its tool column and shapes paletteBoolioOnline 3D modelling for 3D printing Calculator: the Calculator logo above a retro black-plastic scientific calculator with a green display and an orange equals key, beside a graph of sine, cosine and parabola curvesCalculatorScientific calculator with graphing and converter To-do list appTo-Do ListA simple online task list BenLev guitar tuner with a gauge dial and chrome letteringBenLev Guitar TunerFree tuner with automatic string detection igen online image studio: the pastel igen logo over a scatter of instant-photo prints of animals, food, places and logos made with itigenOnline AI image studio - invite only Paul’s Online Music library with album cover artPaul’s Online MusicRoyalty-free music to play anytime

retro/

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Arcade-style classics rebuilt for the browser: falling blocks, a maze chase, Lily Pad Dash (a Frogger-style hopper), biplane dogfights, pinball, top-down tank battles, Stonehold (an Age of Empires-style strategy game) and a Rubik’s-style cube. No download, no sign-up.

Tetris-style falling blocks game shown on a handheld console screenTetris-Style BlocksFalling-block puzzle on a handheld screen Retro Pac-Man style maze game with a yellow chomper and a pink ghostRetro Pac-Man StyleMaze chase: eat the dots, dodge the ghosts Lily Pad Dash, a Frogger-style arcade game: a pixel frog beside a game screen with traffic, river logs and turtlesLily Pad DashFrogger-style game: cross roads and rivers Biplane Ace air combat game with a blue biplane shooting down a red oneBiplane AceSide-view dogfights against the red baron Rubik’s-style 3D cube puzzle solverRubik’s-Style Cube3D cube to scramble, solve and learn Pinball game showing four arcade tables: Starblazer, Wild West, Deep Sea and Cyber CagePinballFour arcade tables to master Minitanks: four army-coloured tanks in a sandy arena with crossed walls and a shell explosion in the middle, under the MINI TANKS titleMinitanksTop-down tank battles with ricochet shells, 1-4 players Stonehold, an Age of Empires-style real-time strategy game: the gold STONEHOLD title with the words Age of Empires-style game beneath it, over a mud-brick village with wheat fields and villagers from the gameStoneholdAge of Empires-style game, Stone to Iron Age

board/

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Board games, card games and puzzles: chess, Tilewise (Scrabble-style), Whodunnit (Cluedo-style), Square Mile (Monopoly-style), a dice-dome race game, poker, solitaire and sudoku. Play the computer or other people.

Shed card game, also known as Shithead, with its stamped SHED logo over a fan of playing cardsShed (Shithead)The classic card game vs AI or online Sudoku: the pencil-drawn SUDOKU logo with a pencil on a hand-drawn grid, beside a puzzle board on cream paper with a hint and highlighted matching numbers, above easy, medium and hard buttonsSudokuEasy, medium and hard puzzles with notes and hints Chess: the new CHESS logo, a stone rook tower between blue and red banners, next to a tilted board with fantasy chess piecesChessPlay the computer or other players online Tilewise, a Scrabble-style word game: wooden letter tiles spelling TILEWISE above a board where PLOB runs down and crosses HOMEPAGE across on the shared O, for 10 pointsTilewiseScrabble-style game vs computer or friends Whodunnit, a Cluedo-style mystery board game with a magnifying glass, dice and a manor-house boardWhodunnitCluedo-style mystery game, online or vs AI Solitaire (Klondike): four aces fanned on green felt behind a red SOLITAIRE stampSolitaireClassic Klondike, draw one or draw three Peg Solitaire: a round wooden board with blue glass marbles on the cross-shaped English layout, captured marbles lined up in the green felt groove, under the Peg Solitaire titlePeg SolitaireClassic marble puzzle - jump, capture, leave one Frustration board game: the four-colour FRUSTRATION logo with its dice dome and pegs, over the game boardFrustrationPop the dome, race your pegs, send rivals home Square Mile, a Monopoly-style London property trading game: the whole London board with the gold SQUARE MILE title and the words Monopoly-style game in its centreSquare MileMonopoly-style game: buy up London streets Poker, Texas Hold'em: the gold POKER logo with two aces and casino chips beside a live table with five community cards and a winning pair of kingsPoker (Texas Hold'em)Up to 8 players, online or vs computer

originals/

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Games built from scratch rather than rebuilt from a classic: online pool, paintball, a zombie siege, parkour and cipher puzzles.

PLOB POOL online pool game: the name spelled out on eight pool balls above a light-green pool table mid-break, with a red ball dropping into a corner pocket, two yellow balls rolling and the white cue ball reboundingPLOB POOLOnline pool with ratings and a leaderboard Paintball: the purple-and-orange paintballer aiming at the PAINTBALL splat logo, over a split first-person view of the Castle and Docks maps with a marker and a hopper of purple paintballsPaintballTeam or solo paintball on 7 maps, online Zombie Siege top-down survival game with a knight swinging a sword at zombiesZombie SiegeTop-down survival against zombie waves Parkour 3D: a runner in a teal jacket on a rooftop above a dusk city on the left and on a stone platform among low-poly trees on the right, under the PARKOUR 3D logoParkour 3DVault, climb and wall-run across 25 maps Code Breaker cipher puzzle game with an encrypted message and difficulty levelsCode Breaker27 cipher puzzles from easy to hard

beta/

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Still in development — playable, but expect rough edges.

Squad Surge runner shooter game with a squad of soldiers facing enemies on a neon roadSquad SurgeGrow your squad, smash gates, beat bosses Mini Golf in 3D: the MINI GOLF logo over a bright 3D render of a miniature golf hole with a red windmill, a big white golf ball, a winding fairway and a flag in the holeMini GolfPutt 27 holes in 3D, solo or online Kart2D top-down kart racing: a lime green kart with a helmeted driver leads a red kart with glowing brake lights and a magenta kart round a curved track past the checkered lineKart2DTop-down time trials against your ghost Stocks trading game: a live market heat map of real companies such as NVIDIA, Apple and Microsoft under a price tickerStocksTrade real market prices with 100,000 credits Spitfire flight sim: a top-down Spitfire over an RAF roundel above the SPITFIRE title, on a view of English fields and coast from the gameSpitfireFly a Spitfire Mk IX over the English coast Wrestle ragdoll brawler: the WRESTLE logo over a render of a purple wrestler and an orange wrestler locked in a grapple in a ring, with a crowd and spotlights behind themWrestleFloppy ragdoll brawler, vs CPU or online Rival Tides pirate naval combat: the gold RIVAL TIDES logo over a painting of a dark pirate ship ploughing through green waves, with two navy ships firing broadsides behind itRival TidesCaptain a pirate ship, fight the Navy at sea Full Lean motorcycle racing: the red and white FULL LEAN logo above the silhouette of a Grand Prix rider leaning into a corner against a sunset, with sparks flyingFull LeanGrand Prix motorcycle racing, solo or online Hide & Sink naval grid game: the orange HIDE & SINK logo above a game board of ships on a grid of sea squares, with explosions marking hits, from the gameHide & SinkThe classic naval grid game, vs computer or online

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