About YawGames

What we make

Original implementations of classic, universally known mechanics — merging tiles, a word puzzle, a bird through pipes, a tower of blocks — written from an empty file. No licensed engine, no third-party game, no borrowed artwork, and no name that belongs to somebody else.

Every game is a directory: a pure rules file that knows nothing about the browser, a rendering and input layer, its own stylesheet and its own tests. The rules are tested without a page, and the page is tested with a real browser.

How a game gets here

1. Rules first. The game logic is a deterministic function of its inputs, so a run can be replayed from a seed. That is what makes a test possible at all.
2. A bot plays it. Each reflex game ships with an autopilot and a crash hook. CI plays the game, loses it on purpose through the real rules, and checks that the death card, the score bookkeeping and the ad policy all behaved.
3. Two viewports. Desktop and 390 px phone, with the ad slots measured rather than glanced at.
4. The screenshot is the game. Thumbnails on this site are captures of our own bots playing, never stock art and never generated artwork. Each one carries a provenance record that anyone can re-verify from the file itself.

What is deliberately not here

• No accounts. Nothing to remember, nothing to breach.
• No invented popularity. Play counts and ratings are internal design mock-ups; they are hidden unless a developer asks for them with ?mockstats=1. A real number replaces them the day there is a real number.
• No advertising yet. The slots you can see are reserved space that currently renders empty, and the ad code compiles away — see Privacy.
• No AI-generated artwork. Screenshots come from the games; the mark and the icons are ours.
• No third-party scripts. Fonts, icons and code are all self-hosted.

Where this is going

Six games are playable today and the plan is public in our build: more original titles on the same template, a proper self-hosted font, and a distribution deal or an ad network only once the site can stand on its own content. Decisions about advertising are the kind we would rather make slowly: a network that treats our visitors badly is not worth what it pays.

Reach us

Everything goes through one address: — — feedback, bug reports, embed requests, permissions and copyright notices (DMCA has its own route). We read it all.