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Infinite Games

Small games, tools and experiments for a more playful world.

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ExploreA Julia set in Fractal Explorer

Fractal Explorer

Fly through Mandelbrot and Julia sets. Steer n and c, and color them with your own photo.
PlayDigger!! title art: the raccoon over the city

Digger!!

Roam the city, then dig anywhere. Pop the rats and roaches, and collect the junk of history.
Create

Copy!

A copy machine with many lenses. Copy a picture into shrunken copies until it turns into a fractal.
Word

Infinite Words

A two-player word game on a board with no edges. It keeps going after the tiles run out.
EvolveEvolved plants in Gene Tank

Gene Tank

Fish and plants grown from digital genes. Net some, multiply others, and watch the tank evolve.
Simulate

Fish Tank

U.S. households as fish. Income is the head, spending the tail, debt the belly.
PlayDigger!! Sunset Dunes title art: the raccoon over the dunes

Digger!! Sunset Dunes

Digger on the Outer Sunset. Dig under the dunes and spray the gulls and crabs.
Compare

Mirror US

Two rooms of 100 people side by side. Does a profession, a league or Congress look like the country?

Learn through play

Every game opens with a guide to the idea underneath it.

Fractal ExplorerComplex numbers and escape timeDrag a point and watch its orbit decide its color. Copy!Iterated function systemsWhy any picture becomes the same fractal, and what 1.585 dimensions means. Gene TankEvolution as an infinite gameMutation, selection, camouflage, and you as a predator. Fish TankHousehold moneyIncome, spending, savings and debt across 136 million homes. Mirror USReading a demographic comparisonPercentage points, rounding, and when a chart should refuse.

More from the workshop

Games with no finish line

sf-code is a small workshop in San Francisco making games, tools and experiments you can open in a browser. Most of them belong to the Infinite Games series, named after James P. Carse's idea that some games are played to win and others are played so that play can continue.

There's no last level here. Fractals go deeper, tanks keep evolving, word boards keep growing, and the raccoon keeps digging.

Play without endings. Learn something on the way down.