PixelPaws

TL;DR — A cozy browser pet game: adopt a pixel creature, feed it, play mini-games, keep a daily streak. Vanilla TS + Canvas, zero backend to play. Beta at pixelpaws.example.com. (Demo content.)

The current focus project. A small, self-contained web game — no install, no account required to play.

Stack

• Vanilla TypeScript + Canvas — no framework, hand-written render loop.
• Vite build; ships as static files to Cloudflare Pages.
• localStorage for saves; optional cloud sync via a tiny Worker + KV.
• Vitest for the pure game logic (game.ts split from render.ts).

What shipped

• Adopt/name flow, hunger + happiness loops, three mini-games.
• Daily streak with a shareable result card (generated 1080×1080 PNG).
• Offline-first: the whole game works with no network.

Gotchas worth remembering

• Save race on sign-out — clearing local state on logout wiped the daily streak because the cloud copy only stored a high score, not the streak. Fix: never clear local data on sign-out. Full write-up: learnings/engineering.md.
• rAF double-loop — starting a new render loop without cancelling the old one doubled the speed on replay. Cancel at the top of start().

Open questions

Monetisation model is undecided — see gaps.md.