ABOUT BY CHRIS COOLEY · CODED.DESIGN

Press kit
Facts, logos, contact.

DOM VIRUS is a family of tiny open-source arcade games that play on a real webpage. The DOM is the game board: letters become points and buttons become enemy factories. Hit Recall to give the page back. By Chris Cooley · coded.design.

FACT SHEET

6games playable today: four on the page, two board games

MITlicence for every game, the engine and the site

22.9 to 34.6 kBgzip size of each embedded game, engine included

2.8 kBFizlet engine kernel, gzip, against a 4 KB budget

0runtime dependencies in the game packages

About the games

Each embedded game plays across the page you are reading, then gives it back on Recall. No install to play.

DOM Battlefield and Battlefield Blitz are full board games built from Sherman Bytes, played on their own site.

Battlefield Blitz runs on Fizlet, the family's small engine. The embedded games move onto it next.

The roster

PLAY SHERMAN BYTES01 Sherman BytesDOM TANK. Deploy a pixel tank onto a live webpage, breach button bases and hold the page. 27.0 kB gzip.PLAY DOM BATTLEFIELD02 DOM BattlefieldSQUAD TACTICS. Command a squad of up to twelve Sherman tanks on a cyberpunk grid built from real page elements.PLAY BATTLEFIELD BLITZ03 Battlefield BlitzDOM BLITZ. Same tanks, every crew for itself. Parachute in, call airstrikes, most kills wins.PLAY SWARM PROTOCOL04 Swarm ProtocolDOM DEFENSE. Release a swarm onto the page, then defend it before the bugs eat it into binary. 34.6 kB gzip.PLAY BYTE RUNNER05 Byte RunnerDOM CHASE. A hungry pixel frog races through the page's whitespace, eats real text and hunts escaping flies. 29.2 kB gzip.PLAY NULL INVADERS06 Null InvadersDOM SHOOTER. Fly an interceptor through a real webpage and break the button factories. 22.9 kB gzip.

Logos, icons and images

GET THE LOGOS ON GITHUBLogos and icons CONTACT DOM VIRUSScreenshotsPlay any game and capture it as it runs on the page. Ask through the contact page for anything else.

Names and credit

Write the names as shown: DOM VIRUS in capitals, then Sherman Bytes, DOM Battlefield, Battlefield Blitz, Swarm Protocol, Byte Runner, Null Invaders and Fizlet.

Credit line: By Chris Cooley · coded.design.

Sizes are measured gzip figures from each game's package at the last site build. They describe the download of the game and its engine, not a whole page.

Press contact

CONTACT DOM VIRUSReach usEvery channel, in one place. An email address is coming soon.DOM VIRUS ON GITHUBSource codeEvery game is open source under MIT.