It shouldn't be surprising that from the world's smallest website comes the world's smallest games. From British game and Web designer Alan Outten comes this very tiny website, only 18 pixels wide by 18 pixels high, yet it is packed full with games such as Pong, Pacman, Footy, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Pinball, and others. These teeny tiny games are surprisingly challenging and fun to play, if only a bit difficult to see on a high resolution monitor.
There is certainly more here than meets the eye. While at first glance it may seem incredibly simple to make a game as small as these are, and yet it is likely just the opposite is true: Making very small games requires just as much attention to gameplay as full-sized games do.
For example, Pacman (shown here) features only one 'ghost' but the AI is designed to come directly at you using a shortest path algorithm. This makes the inner 'dots' much more difficult to get to. And to pull off a game like Asteroids in such a small area requires some thoughtfully designed pixel graphic manipulations to accomplish believable animation.
The entire site is an amazing accomplishment, and a fascinating exercise in game design and development discipline, even if just for the novelty of it. Click.
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ouch...my eyes were straining...
Posted by: Steve | December 18, 2004 10:44 PM
Wow, I feel bad for ever complaining about screen real estate. Although they obviously took things too far...
Posted by: Aaron Pulkka | March 13, 2005 8:55 PM
that is amazing, very well designed
Posted by: dthd | March 19, 2005 4:28 AM
lol it is the best site ever
Posted by: Bean In Black | April 10, 2005 3:51 PM
Very original, great sites, nice, um, graphics? The only thing i dont get is the life game.
Posted by: Mike | June 9, 2005 10:19 AM
http://www.math.com/students/wonders/life/life.html
that should help with "life". basically its rules for taking a grid with some cells filled and some not filled and applying those rules to get a new stage, then repeating.
Posted by: Caleb | July 25, 2005 4:00 AM
That's amazing but work require lasiks in less than a year.
Posted by: Hilton Scott | August 12, 2005 7:44 AM
This is a genius site. It's really weird coming off it, since everything seems much bigger.
Posted by: Wulfo | August 29, 2005 4:28 AM
This is a pretty adorable site. I loved the pacman game, altho the controls seemed kind of tough my second time through (didn't want to turn when I told it to). At least you don't have to worry about knowing how to draw to make this site. =)
Posted by: KumikoDee | September 8, 2005 4:30 PM
so many wee games
Posted by: the flying monkey | November 4, 2005 11:40 AM
Nice site! My eyes were straining, but the games were so fun!
Posted by: Brooke | November 22, 2005 4:33 PM
wow this is tiny!!
Posted by: Huggy
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December 28, 2005 8:43 PM
If you use Opera browser, you can easily zoom this site.
Posted by: Denilson | March 1, 2006 7:29 PM
wow! i loved it my eyes hurt ive bin playing sooo much!
Posted by: big red | June 5, 2006 8:36 PM
ahh!!! you cant beat tic tac toe it doesn;t make a mistake!!!!!!!
Posted by: adrenalin | July 11, 2006 3:25 PM
found this quite A while ago
Posted by: VINNY | December 29, 2006 11:06 AM
played this game before, really strain my eyes!!!
Posted by: dullpunk | January 6, 2007 12:09 PM
Omg, they even have Conway's game of life!?
That is REALLY small!!
Posted by: Vault | April 17, 2007 10:00 PM
lol i like this especially the football. i got hammered 5-0 my first game.
Posted by: sillybuttons | August 26, 2007 3:39 PM
He made a tiny art gallery. If you wanna see the world's smallest version of The Last Supper, Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe prints, and so forth, just hit the one labeled "Arena". Soon, you too will be educated in the high class world of tiny art.
Posted by: weirdguy
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November 8, 2007 4:42 AM
what the...
how do you return on tic tac toe? im stuck on it flashing either:
Or:
grr.. do i have to close it and open it again?
Posted by: Cooley123
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January 31, 2008 2:43 PM
Oh. Sorry for double post but:
To return.
Posted by: Cooley123
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January 31, 2008 2:44 PM