The MindContact workshop

Games, music and code
with an 8-bit soul

Everything runs in the browser: nothing to install, no account. Under the hood there is a chip from 1982, the Commodore 64 SID, emulated from scratch.

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Games

2D platformers that run in the browser: play with keyboard or gamepad, install them as an app, play offline.

Vulcano
In development

A platformer among lava and volcanoes. Music and sound effects come from a SID chip emulated in real time: no audio files.

Play
Stazione Zero
In development

A technician wakes up alone on a failing orbital station. Magnetic boots: jump at a wall and it becomes the floor. The onboard AI helps you. Maybe.

Play

Music

For writing chiptunes the way it was done on 8-bit computers.

Hexline
In development

A music tracker in the FastTracker 2 style. It plays the Commodore 64 SID, the ZX Spectrum AY, a drum machine and a sampler; songs export to WAV.

Open

Applications

Complete programs to run on your own server. Free software.

simple-media-hub
In development

L'Isola dei Bimbi: a kids' home screen for the TV. Cartoons and films from Jellyfin in big tiles and 19 games that work offline, with arrow keys or a remote. No ads, no tracking; it installs with Docker.

On GitHub

Libraries

The code the games and tools stand on. Plain JavaScript, ES modules, no dependencies, no build.

sidicio
In development

The Commodore 64 SID sound chip emulated in JavaScript: three voices, filter, envelopes. With a music player and a sound-effect player, in an AudioWorklet or in Node.

Try the demo GitHub npm
motorino
In development

A small 2D game engine, born from Vulcano: platformer physics with gravity in four directions, maps and sprites drawn as text, dialogue, saves, PWA.

Try the demo GitHub npm