Capital Punishment started as a late-night distraction on a family trip. The playtester was a geography obsessive in a different time zone. Canada was a problem.

Traffic, leaderboards, and what a few thousand people actually did when they showed up. Half a year of running a solo browser game site.

On visual consistency across a growing collection of browser games, and the iOS Safari bug that took a month to fix and had to be applied to every game differently.

I posted a browser game about NYC eviction law to Reddit. 45,000 views, an attorney, an ethics debate, and one genuine design flaw later, here's what happened.

Web games have no Steam page, no app store, no built-in discovery. Every player has to come from somewhere deliberate. Here's what that actually looks like.

My global leaderboard was showing positions 1-5 twice instead of 1-10. The fix was one line. Finding it took longer than it should have.

Tapping an answer highlighted the wrong button on the next question. requestAnimationFrame didn't fix it. The answer was switching from onclick to ontouchstart.