OneBit Arcade is a pocket console that runs in your web browser. It comes loaded with 61 small, original games across 7 shelves: arcade classics, action, puzzles, sports, board games against the computer, timing challenges and a whole shelf of games you play by spinning a dial.
Who makes it
OneBit Arcade is designed, coded and maintained by Juan Antonio Fernández Selma, an independent developer based in Córdoba, Spain, who also runs other free tool and game sites. Every game, sprite and sound effect was made for this console. The site is free and funded by advertising, which is never placed on top of the console screen.
Why one bit?
Limits make games better. Every OneBit game uses just two colors, like the pocket LCD games of the 1980s and 90s. Shades are made with patterns of dots (a technique called dithering), and the screen keeps a soft afterglow so movement looks smooth, like a real LCD. The screen tint can be changed from paper white to amber, ice blue or night mode, and the console shell comes in six colors.
What makes it different
- A real console feel. A boot screen, a cartridge library you browse with the D-pad, a pause menu and saved best scores, all in the browser.
- The dial. A rotary knob on the side of the console. Pour a soda, crack a safe, reel in a fish, tune a radio or swing a shield around a planet. Turn it by dragging in circles, with the mouse wheel, with the Q and E keys, or with a gamepad's right stick.
- Plays anywhere. Keyboard, touch screen or game controller. No download, no account, no installs.
- Fair and private. No purchases, no prizes, no accounts. Scores stay in your own browser.
Original games only
The games are inspired by timeless genres (snake, brick breaking, falling blocks of three, minesweeping, table tennis, artillery and many more), but each one was written from scratch with its own name, rules tweaks and graphics. We don't host copies of other companies' games.
Contact
Found a bug, or have an idea for a dial game? Email juanfersem@gmail.com or use the contact page.