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Slowdown

Life moves fast. Play a little.

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The Slowdown website homepage
11 gamesNo app or sign-upShared-screen multiplayer
01 The shape of it

A calm browser arcade of eleven original and reimagined games, each one made to fill a spare five minutes without an app, an account or an advert.

The brief

Build an antidote to the endless scroll: somewhere on the open web that rewards a short detour, works instantly on any device, and never asks a visitor to install, register or pay before they can play.

Our approach

Every game is built for the browser and grouped by mood rather than genre, so choosing one takes seconds. A cassette-era loading sequence, a warm paper-and-ink palette and a nickname-based hall of fame give a collection of very different games one coherent personality — from a shared-screen Boggle room to a generative ocean, a platformer, a racer and four rediscovered classics.

The result

A genuinely playable showcase of front-end craft: eleven complete games, real-time multiplayer, saved scores and an AI idea tool, all living behind one unhurried homepage.

02The live experience

One clear opening view, built to make the next step feel obvious.

Desktop view of the Slowdown website
03What makes it work

Details with
a job to do.

01

Choose by mood, not menu

Games are introduced as the social one, the chilled one, the speedy one — a two-second decision instead of a catalogue to read.

02

Built in the browser, properly

Canvas rendering, physics, touch and keyboard controls, ghost laps, saved scores and multiplayer rooms all run without a download.

03

Nostalgia with a light touch

A Dragon 32 tape load, scratch-card Pac-Man and pixel mazes borrow the feeling of early home computing without pretending to be a museum.

Mobile view of the Slowdown website
04Every screen counts

Made for the device already in someone’s hand.

The mobile experience keeps the same character and priorities, then reshapes them for a smaller screen instead of simply squeezing the desktop layout.

What we brought together
  • Creative direction
  • Brand & identity
  • Game development
  • Interaction design
  • Real-time multiplayer
  • AI tooling
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