For grown-ups & privacy
Squishworks is a family hobby project, not a business: a kid dreamed up and play-tested these games, and a grown-up built and published them. It’s free, with no accounts, ads, chat, purchases or tracking code, and nothing your child makes or saves here is sent anywhere.
Who runs this site
Squishworks at https://drarissa.pages.dev is run by a family as a personal, non-commercial project. Nobody
pays for anything, nobody is paid, and there’s nothing to sign up for.
There is no contact form, comment box or chat anywhere on this site, so nothing can be sent to us through it.
What we collect
Nothing. There are no accounts, forms, cookies, ads, analytics or tracking code. What your child types, draws, makes or saves in a game is never sent to us or to anyone else, and the pages only ever ask for this site’s own files.
What our web host sees
The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare’s servers have to see a visitor’s IP address and which page was asked for in order to send it and to keep the service secure. That is handled by Cloudflare under its own privacy policy (cloudflare.com/privacypolicy). We haven’t turned on Cloudflare’s visitor statistics, and we don’t download or look at visitor logs.
What’s stored in this browser
Nothing is kept until your child opens a game or someone changes a setting. Just looking around stores nothing at all. Everything below stays in this browser, on this device; none of it is sent to us.
A picture your child turns into a squishy stays in this browser until you remove it, and anyone who uses this browser can see it. It is never uploaded.
| For | Where | Name | What | Removed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole site | localStorage | sq:settings | Site-wide choices: sound, calm, motion, letter-key shortcuts and whether pictures are kept. Only there once someone changes one. | “Stop remembering my settings”, or “Clear everything” |
| Whole site | localStorage | sq:no-remember | A single flag saying “don’t remember my settings”. Only there if you asked for that. | “Remember my settings”, or “Clear everything” |
| Whole site | Cache Storage + service worker | sq-* | Offline copies of this site’s own files, made the first time a game is played. Never anything your child made. | “Clear everything” |
| Squish Studio | localStorage | squishy-playground | Studio choices: the toy, its colours, material and softness, the background, the volume and music box, and whether the how-to-play card was seen. | “Clear everything” on the grown-ups page |
| Squish Studio | indexedDB | squishy-playground | The picture your child turned into a squishy, and its outline. Only there if they made one while “Keep pictures” was on. It never leaves this device. | “Remove picture” in the Studio, switching “Keep pictures” off, or “Clear everything” on the grown-ups page |
| Squish Studio | localStorage | squishy-photo | The same picture, kept here instead only by browsers where IndexedDB does not work. | “Remove picture” in the Studio, switching “Keep pictures” off, or “Clear everything” on the grown-ups page |
| Sky Tower | localStorage | squishy-sky-tower | Sky Tower progress: stages climbed, WINS, power-ups, the chosen squishy and colour, and the game’s volume and effects settings. | “Reset Sky Tower progress” in Sky Tower settings (progress only), or “Clear everything” on the grown-ups page |
Settings for this browser
Settings are only stored once you change one. You can ask us to stop at any time; after that they last until the page closes.
Saving, honestly
Each game keeps its progress in this browser only, so it’s there next time, on this device, in this browser. Browsers can clear it, though:
- Safari (on iPhone, iPad and Mac) may clear it if you don’t visit for a while (about seven days of using Safari).
- Some school and shared computers clear it when you sign out.
- Clearing your browsing data clears it too.
On iPhone and iPad, an icon added to the Home Screen keeps its own saves, separate from Safari. If you add one, add it before your child starts, then always play from the icon.
Each game also works offline once it has been played here, until the browser clears site data.
Ask this browser to keep our saves
Browsers can promise not to clear a site’s saves on their own. Some decide for themselves, and some ask you. This only asks; it never stores anything new.
The games
On a shared or classroom device, remove any picture after each session, or switch “Keep pictures after the page closes” off above.
Squish Studio
Chill · Ages 4–10 · Touch, Mouse, Keyboard
| To | Do this |
|---|---|
| Squish | Press and hold the toy, or hold the Squish! button |
| Poke | Choose Poke, then tap the toy or press Poke! |
| Stretch | Choose Stretch, then drag the toy and let go, or hold Stretch wide / Stretch tall |
| Turn the toy | Choose Rotate and drag, press Turn left / Turn right, or the arrow keys |
| Reset the toy | The Reset button, or R |
| Pick a toy | Tap it on the shelf, or press 1–9 |
| Close a panel | Esc |
Sky Tower
Challenge · Ages 6–10 · Touch, Mouse, Keyboard
| To | Do this |
|---|---|
| Move | The joystick, or W A S D / the arrow keys |
| Jump | The Jump button, or Space |
| Look around | The Turn left / Recenter / Turn right buttons, or Z / C / X; dragging the view works too |
| Squish your squishy | Tap the view, hold Q, or the Squish button (on phones, in the toy drawer) |
| Change squishy | The toy in the corner, or E beside a squishy machine |
| Power-ups | Pause, then Power-ups |
| Pause | The Pause button, or P / Esc |
Reset and clear
These two buttons sit behind a small number puzzle for grown-ups. It stops pre-readers from tapping them by accident; it is not a lock, and a child who can read can pass it.
Reset Sky Tower progress
Stages, WINS, completed towers and power-ups go back to the start. The chosen squishy, its colour and the game’s sound levels stay. You can undo this until you close this page. A Sky Tower tab that is already open picks up the change straight away.
Reset Sky Tower progress in this browser?
Clear everything from this browser
Deletes everything Squishworks keeps in this browser: settings, both games’ progress, any picture, and the offline copies. There is no undo. Other browsers, and a Home Screen icon on iPhone or iPad, keep their own copies.
This erases progress, settings and pictures in this browser. There is no undo.
Accessibility
We want every child to be able to play, and we test with keyboards, screen readers, zoom, touch screens and high-contrast modes. We don’t claim the site fully meets any accessibility standard. What we aim for:
- Everything can be played with a keyboard, a mouse or a touch screen.
- Big buttons (at least 56 pixels), readable text, and page zoom that always works.
- Sound is off until someone turns it on. Calm turns off sound and big motion together.
- Motion follows your device’s “reduce motion” setting, or the site’s own switch above. Nothing flashes.
- Letter and number key shortcuts can be switched off, for switch and voice-control users.
Known gaps, which we’re working on:
- The 3D toys and the tower are pictures: a screen reader can hear the controls and what’s happening, but not see the scene.
- Sky Tower needs quick timing to jump, and there is no slower mode yet.
- In Squish Studio, tipping the toy forward or back needs a drag (or the up and down arrow keys); the Turn buttons only turn it sideways.
- No outside expert has audited the site yet.
Questions about your child’s data
Because the site doesn’t collect or receive anything about you or your child, there is nothing for us to look up, hand over or delete. Everything the games keep is in your own browser, and “Clear everything” above removes it.
Visitors in the UK and EU
We don’t process personal data. The game saves in this browser only exist because your child chose to play, and settings are kept only after someone changes one; “Stop remembering my settings”, right beside the settings, turns that off.
Changes to this notice
Updated . If we ever change something that matters, we’ll say so at the top of this page.