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Vertex · Games

Games.

Small games that play in the browser. Some are finished; others are portfolio experiments.

  1. A Victorian supper table laid by candlelight, an empty red armchair at its end, and on the wall behind it the shadows of six guests who are not in the room.
    Playable
    Experiment

    Vertex Games · Ghost story puzzle

    Do Not Sit Down

    All Hallows’ Eve, 1899. You came to the Marlow house to prove its stories are nonsense, and the supper was already laid. Keep its rules by lamplight. Whatever happens, don’t sit down.

    Built to test
    Whether light alone can carry a ghost story: the guests are never shown, only their shadows on the wall, thrown by the lamp you hold.
    Plays
    In the browser · the prologue · phone or desktop · sound on
    Made with
    Blender · three.js · Web Audio · shadow-only figures
  2. The drowned church steeple of Sallow Hollow standing in the lake at dusk, dead trees in the water and mountains behind, a lantern lit in a rowing boat in the foreground.
    Playable
    Experiment

    Vertex Games · Horror escape room

    The Drowned Hollow

    In 1944 a dam drowned Sallow Hollow. Every drought, the drowned walk home. Turn back the hands of the stopped mantel clock and the river leaves the house with the hours.

    Built to test
    Whether rendered film stills can carry a game: every view is a Cycles render, with live water drawn over it.
    Plays
    In the browser · first slice, about 20 minutes · sound on
    Made with
    Blender Cycles · three.js · Web Audio · recorded sound only
  3. An Accession case, “The mislabeled treatment”: the case brief and the two-table schema on the left, the SQL toolkit, the objective and the query editor on the right.Playable

    Vertex Labs · SQL puzzle

    Accession

    A museum records puzzle that teaches SQL: thirty-six levels across six cases, each one a real query against a real database running in your own browser.

    Teaches
    SQL, one case at a time
    Plays
    In the browser · no signup, nothing to install
    Made with
    DuckDB-Wasm · Monaco · Next.js