Page Arcade

Click the icon on any web page and it freezes into a game level: eight arcade games played with that page’s own words, gaps and pictures. Snake threads the empty space, the words fall as invaders, every word becomes a brick, and when you leave, the page is exactly as it was.

Status: On Chrome Web Store
Platform: Chrome, Manifest V3
Extension ID: inefhhclfkojgjjncaajopdhbabjkfbf

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Why it exists

Browser games that use the page you are on go back at least to the Kick Ass bookmarklet, and most do the same thing: fly over the page and shoot it. Page Arcade asks what else a page could be. Its whitespace is a maze, its headings are bosses, its images are steel. Each game reads the actual layout, so no two pages play the same, and a long Wikipedia article is a different level from a news homepage.

What it does

Eight games, one page: Snake, Word Blaster, Type Storm, Brickout, Whack-a-Word, Page Roller, Gravity Crumble and Page Chomp, all built from the same frozen screenshot.
The layout is the level: The empty space is found pixel by pixel, so Snake and Page Chomp use the page’s real gaps as corridors and never die on a wall you cannot see.
Tall levels: Snake, Page Chomp and Page Roller can stitch several screens of a long page into one level, with a camera that follows you down it.
Nothing on the page changes: It plays on a picture of the page. Press Esc and the page, and your scroll position, are exactly as they were.
Progress, skins and a share card: XP, achievements and unlockable skins, plus a picture of the wrecked page to copy or save when a game ends.
God mode, for exploring: Type iddqd on the game menu and nothing can kill you in any game until you leave: Snake slides through text, ghosts pass through you, bombs and dropped balls cost nothing. Type it again to turn it off. Scores from god-mode runs never reach the leaderboards.
Online only if you ask: No site access until you click. Site leaderboards and share links are optional and off by default, and scores send the site’s hostname, never the page address.