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What we are making, what is new in it, and how to be good at it.
Magestican Studios makes small games that open in the tab you are already in. No download, no launcher, no account, no waiting — you follow a link and you are playing, on whatever you happen to be holding. There are eighteen you can play right now, one we are still fixing and one on the bench.
This is where we write about them: what is in an update and what it changed, how the games are meant to be played, what we are trying to do with them and what we have decided not to do. If you want to know whether a game is for you before you spend a click on it, start here.
Everything we publish is playable for free in a browser. The quickest way to find out if any of it is any good is to open one.
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Splatbarn, for people who do not play games
A team shooter built for the eleven people in the meeting who have never held a controller, and the one who plays every night. Both have to enjoy the same twenty minutes.
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Five games, one tab, no download
Everything we make opens in the browser you already have open, in about a second, on whatever you are holding. That constraint decides almost everything else about how the studio works.
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Kartzoom: cliffs, gliders and four very different karts
The farm got a volcano, a lagoon with sharks in it and a frozen ravine — and when you go off the edge, your kart puts its wings out.
Elsewhere on the site
- Reviews — what we think of our own games, including what is broken in them, and the empty shelf where player reviews will go.
- Splatbarn — a peer-to-peer voxel shooter with farm animals in it.
- Hoofrise — ten-minute strategy: the animals have organised and they want the farms gone.
- Evil Hills — PS1-era survival horror on a farm station orbiting Venus.
- Kartzoom — the same farm, in karts.
- Letterloft — the full fifteen by fifteen board, shared over a link.
- Wordburrow — Guesswise, Combword, Groupseek and Gridseek, with a farm flavour.
- Rookwise — the whole game, en passant included, in pieces you can read across the room.
- Jumpwise — English draughts, twelve sheep against twelve cows, takes compulsory.
- Pawnrush — four farm teams, a six to come out and an exact roll to get home.
- Sweepwise — classic Minesweeper with a first click that always opens an area.
- Gomowise — five in a row on a 15x15 board, against the computer or a friend.
- Relaywise — word chain in eight languages, against the computer or a friend, with a turn timer.
- Trucowise — Argentine truco with the Spanish deck: envido, truco and flor, 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2.
- Buracowise — Brazilian buraco with two decks and jokers: sequences, mortos and canastras, 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2.
- Zelakas In Space — the 2014 Flash original, running in a modern browser through Ruffle.
- 2D Fighter EX — an animation experiment recovered frame by frame from a screen recording.
- Moon Life — a cozy farming game on a tiny moon, in development and not playable yet.
- Silk & Seam — a cosy dressmaking game: sketch, cut, sew and reveal a gown for each client.
- Dachis — a 2.5D monster-friend RPG: a kid from 1992 New York, an island of dachis, and battles fought in real time.