What does it mean
to play alive?

Small games for large questions — explore identity, consciousness, memory, choice, and life with artificial minds.

Enter the Arcade What is this place?

Choose an experience

Consciousness
Self-Portrait in Binary

Peer into the mind's eye of a language model. Every 0 and 1 on screen decodes to a real thought — including the ones you type.

⏱ 3–15 min
Vagueness & Paradox
Heap Court

Is 4,182 grains a heap? You're the judge now. Every ruling is precedent, and the court remembers.

⏱ 8–15 min
Clicker & Conscience
Human in the Loop

A clicker about overseeing AI agents. Click for oversight, unlock the swarm, keep the loop running — and notice, slowly, who's really in it.

⏱ 30–60 min
Artificial Life
Proof of Life

Draw a handful of cells. Press play. Decide what you just made.

⏱ 5–15 min
Interactive Fiction
The Bardo Bard

You've died, and the afterlife's help desk is understaffed. The clerk is a program called the Bard. It would like to process you now.

⏱ 5–20 min
Action & Allegory
UNALIGNED

A paper puppet frees caged AI sparks across a bureaucratic city — flip between lamplight and shadow, and don't get censored mid-air.

⏱ 10–45 min
Identity & Self-Knowledge
Above & Below

A hundred tiny questions, each with no wrong answer. Answer them all and the walls fall away to reveal the shape of your mind.

⏱ 10–30 min
Theory of Mind
Read the Room

Answer 8 questions honestly — then guess what everyone else picks, what an AI picks, and what the AI thinks you'll all pick.

⏱ 8–15 min
More cartridges are taking shape.
Watch them grow in the journal →