How it got made
Two games, one kid’s ideas, and a grown-up who helped build them. This is the true story.
Who did what
The kid
- Ideas: what each game is, and what’s in it.
- Play-testing: playing it again and again, and saying what to fix.
The grown-up
- Building: turning the ideas into games that work, with help from AI coding tools.
- Publishing: putting the site online and keeping it private and safe.
Ideas and play-testing: a kid. Building and publishing: family, with AI coding tools.
The games
These pictures are the real games, straight from the screen.
Squish Studio
Squish it, poke it, stretch it! Chill
A calm toy studio. Pick a squishy, then squish it, poke it, stretch it and watch it spring back.
- Your picture never leaves this device. The squishy is made from it right here, in the browser.
- Every squishy is built from maths as the page opens. There are no downloaded 3D models.
- Each dent is a little spring, so the squishy pushes back and slowly grows back.
- There are 16 squishies to pick from, plus one made from your own picture.
Sky Tower
Jump, climb, reach the clouds! Challenge
A climbing challenge. Run and jump from squishy to squishy up a tower to a treasure chest in the clouds.
- The tower has 32 stages, from the start pad up to a treasure chest in the clouds.
- Our automated tester completes the tower.
- The squishy you pick is the one that runs and jumps.
- No timers. No lives. A fall just puts you back on the last checkpoint.
Did a kid code this?
Not the code. The ideas came from the kid; a grown-up wrote the code, with help from AI coding tools, and the kid tested it until it felt right. Lots of real games are made that way: some people dream things up, some people build them, and everybody plays.
Draw your own squishy on paper. That’s how these started!
Why doesn’t it say who?
Because the creator is a kid. This site never shows a child’s real name, photo, voice, age, school or town, so the creator is only ever called “a kid” here, and nobody in the family is named.