The Hourglass City

New Meridian, 1957

Noir pixel-art games that run in your browser. Every building, car, person, raindrop and letter is drawn in code, and the sound effects and music are synthesized as you play. There are no libraries, no image files and no audio files: each game is a single HTML page.

A cream coupe chasing a black sedan through a rainy isometric city at night

The Black Sedan

Real-time chase and gunfight

A drive-by outside the Blue Comet. Take any car on the street, chase the sedan across the city, and finish it at Pier 9.

WASD drive or walk · mouse aim · click shoot · E get in or out · Space handbrake

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Detective Frank Calder inside the Blue Comet jazz club, drawn in isometric pixel art

The Hourglass City

Point-and-click detective adventure

Act I, The Ordinary Dead. Evelyn Hart, a singer at the Blue Comet, was found dead in room 714 of the Hotel Mirador. Detective Frank Calder follows her trail with clues and deductions in his notebook.

Click to walk, use and talk · right click to look · N notebook · Esc menu

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A rooftop garden in front of a city skyline at dusk, in pixel art

Ravenshore Garden

Cinematic loop

An evening in a garden above the Ravenshore skyline. A woman waters the flower beds with her companion robot, and an aircar arrives at the end of the loop.

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Best on a desktop or laptop: the games need a keyboard and mouse.