Tools and games

These projects grew out of research tasks and game development. The research tools help with assignment testing and PDF review; the games explore browser-based simulation and equipment-building systems.

Research tools

• Builder

  ★ Featured

  A template, agent instructions and one check command for building small browser tools with a coding agent, with every rule in a tested Rust core.

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• Perturbation Workbench

  Record questions, rubrics, and chatbot attempts during iterative assignment perturbation.

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• PDF Redactor

  Find identifiers, review redaction boxes, and export a rebuilt PDF in your browser.

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• YouTube to MP3

  Record the sound of a YouTube video in your browser and save it as an MP3, for pulling audio clips into presentations and other research materials.

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• MP4 to Transcript

  Turn a recording into a transcript laid out like Zoom's, with each voice given an anonymous number, in your browser.

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Classroom tools

These help a teacher run and read a lesson. Each one computes everything on the device that opens it, and each ships with sample content meant to show the tool rather than to be taught.

• BT Lab

  A classroom demo of how a behavior tree becomes key presses, one tick at a time, using the opponents from Vagrancy.

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• Packet Alley

  Watch packets move on a network and solve TCP/IP challenges: address a packet, swap a hub for a switch, fix a route, open a connection.

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• Circus Math Lab

  Three math-circle toys inside a circus game: plot a function by bouncing, integrate a flight with popcorn, and check a juggling pattern.

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• Practice Results

  Students practise a question set and save a result file; the teacher opens the files together to see which topics to reteach.

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• Warm-ups and Exit Tickets

  Build a warm-up or an exit ticket from a question bank, chosen by source document and Depth of Knowledge level.

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• Feedback Drafts

  Pick a level for each criterion of your own rubric and get a feedback draft to edit and copy, built from the comments you wrote.

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• Research Discovery Lab

  A follow-along lab for setting up research profiles, author records, crawling checks, and discovery tests.

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• Status Trends

  Open a tracker or gradebook export and see items per year, quarter or month by status, the change between periods, and the risks, all inside the browser tab.

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Games

Featured

• Vagrancy

  A two-player physics sword-fighting game in which each player controls only their fighter's arms.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Long Time Comin'

  3D bullet hell shooter inspired by Housemarque games. You have been sent back in time to stop yourself from committing a great act of treachery; however, you arrived 50 years too early.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Surfs Up!

  Counter-Strike surfing in 3D on surf_utopia and surf_kitsune, rebuilt from the original maps as a school gym, with Source movement, ghosts and rooms for eight.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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3D

• Food Truck Circus

  A 3D trampoline game on a food truck, played across the real venues of a touring circus.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Gatecrasher

  A third-person stealth game: sneak through an island outpost with two portals, a silenced pistol and a mule, across three missions.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Pursuer

  A first-person survival driving game: hold on to something too long and a giant flat cut-out chases you through a city it tears apart.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse, or touchAlso on iPhone and iPad

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• Iron Vector

  A single-player 3D mech game: build a frame from parts in the garage, then fly it across a city.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Raiders of the Lost Mart

  A four-player co-op extraction shooter in 3D: raid an abandoned Southpoint mall full of drones, carry out what you find, and build your guns from it.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Graftwood

  A 3D auto-battling roguelike: walk a branching path through the woods and graft the body parts of what you beat onto your own creature.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Level Twenty

  A three-against-three auto battler in 3D: melee, magic and ranged, three skills a unit, and a crew you level up to twenty.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Backbeat Pizza

  A 3D deduction game: bake pizzas for a band of picky drummers and work out each secret order from their riffs and hints, over ten levels.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse, or touch

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• Ribbit King

  Frolf, golf played with frogs, for up to four players in one browser or online: whack your frog off a catapult, fly it through flies, lily pads and webs, and land it in the lotus.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse, or touchAlso on iPhone and iPad

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• Protection of the Spheres

  A browser game that plays like the Warcraft III map Defense of the Ancients, with ten heroes of its own: arcade missions against the computer, and five against five online.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Extremely Lifelike Fishing

  Fish the open sea from a pedal-drive kayak, driving each shoulder and elbow on its own keys, on a simulated line that stretches and snaps.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Mage Tower Battle

  Rebuild a wrecked mage college: craft spells from pieces, teach your students by drawing each spell's glyphs, then watch four towers hold.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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2D

• Galactic Survivors

  A survivors-like on an alien planet: steer through twelve minutes of waves, build abilities from parts, and play alone or with a friend in co-op.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Lowballer

  A 2D game about lowballing sellers on a neighbourhood marketplace: read the listing, check the seller, and offer as little as they'll take.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Slushline

  A game in which a belt carries cups under slush spouts, and each spout pours for as long as you hold its key.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse, or touchAlso on iPhone and iPad

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Proof of concept

• Floodline

  A multiplayer medieval city builder in which each age ends in a flood.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Gear Master

  Arrange components into gear, then watch the build take part in an automatic battle.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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• Gear Master 2D

  Explore a tile-based world and assemble equipment for automatic battles.

  Chrome · Edge · Firefox · Safarikeyboard and mouse

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