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Play Ludo, Snakes and Ladders and Checkers Online Free
OmniPlay runs Ludo, Snakes & Ladders and Checkers in one free browser app — no download, no account, no ads, and it keeps working with the network off.
- games
- ludo
- pwa
- offline
Writing
Notes from building this
Technical writing on progressive web apps, offline-first architecture and browser games. Each piece comes out of something we shipped, not something we read about.
- 1 min read
Free Offline Sudoku App With No Ads
Classic 9×9 Sudoku, four difficulty levels, daily challenges and hints that explain the logic — free, fully offline, no account, no ads.
- games
- sudoku
- offline
- 3 min read
How Nepal and Ludo, Snakes & Ladders Are Connected
Long before OmniPlay, Ludo and Snakes & Ladders were already part of everyday life in Nepal. A short look at where both games actually come from, and why they were the obvious first two to build.
- nepal
- culture
- games
- 4 min read
Shipping a PWA to the Google Play Store With a TWA
A Trusted Web Activity puts your existing web app on Play with no port and no second codebase. What Bubblewrap generates, why Digital Asset Links is the step everyone gets wrong, and what Play actually reviews.
- pwa
- android
- play-store
- twa
- 5 min read
How We Build Lightweight, Fast Web Applications at Shrestha Co
Six rules that keep our products small: no engine unless the frame rate demands it, pure logic separated from rendering, synthesised audio, per-feature code splitting, and treating every dependency as a permanent cost.
- performance
- architecture
- engineering
- 4 min read
Versioning localStorage Without Losing Anyone's Saved Game
Local-first means the user's data is older than your code. Namespacing, a version field, migrations, and the three failure modes that will corrupt a save if you don't handle them.
- offline
- storage
- architecture
- 4 min read
Why Progressive Web Apps Are the Future of Mobile Gaming
Install friction is the tax every mobile game pays before anyone plays it. PWAs remove that tax — and for the categories that don't need a GPU, they're now genuinely good enough.
- pwa
- games
- mobile
- 4 min read
Synthesising Game Audio With Zero Audio Files
Every sound in OmniPlay is generated in the browser at runtime — no MP3s, no sprite sheet, nothing to precache. Here's the Web Audio graph behind a dice knock, and the autoplay rule that breaks it.
- web-audio
- performance
- games
- 4 min read
How Modern Web Apps Work Offline Using Service Workers
A service worker is a programmable proxy sitting between your page and the network. Here's the lifecycle, the caching strategies worth knowing, and the update bug almost everyone ships at least once.
- service-workers
- pwa
- offline
- 4 min read
The Evolution of HTML5 Browser Games
From Flash portals to plugin-free canvas games to today's installable PWAs — and why the modern answer for a board game is often no canvas at all.
- html5
- games
- web-platform
- 5 min read
The Cartridge Pattern: Adding a Game Without Touching the Platform
How each OmniPlay game stays fully self-contained — a pure rules engine, a lazily-loaded bundle, and a five-field registry entry — so a fourth game costs the first three nothing.
- architecture
- react
- code-splitting