About Pocket Arcade
Pocket Arcade is one game made carefully: a paddle, a ball and painted blocks on a felt tray. It is meant for a short break on a phone or a computer, with controls that do what you expect and a daily run you can finish in about three minutes.
It is made by Idistic, the product studio of TWINDLE NEDERLAND B.V. in the Netherlands. It is not affiliated with, or based on, any other arcade game or brand. The genre is old and shared; the boards, artwork, sounds and code here are our own.
Boards
There are 15 original boards for practice: 3 tutorial boards and 12 boards in four practice runs, plus 228 boards made for the daily runs. The practice boards were designed by hand for this game in October 2026 as text layouts. Every board is checked by a validator (no overlapping or out-of-bounds blocks, nothing too close to the paddle) and then proven winnable: every practice and daily run has a recorded set of inputs that clears it inside the time and ball limits, replayed through the real game engine before release.
| Board | Run | Size | Id and version |
|---|---|---|---|
| First bounce | Tutorial | 4 blocks, 4 hits | first-bounce v2 |
| Find the angle | Tutorial | 8 blocks, 8 hits | find-the-angle v2 |
| Two-hit blocks | Tutorial | 4 blocks, 8 hits | two-hit-blocks v2 |
| Picket fence | First light | 12 blocks, 12 hits | picket-fence v2 |
| Stepping stones | First light | 12 blocks, 12 hits | stepping-stones v2 |
| Window boxes | First light | 8 blocks, 12 hits | window-boxes v2 |
| Hedge maze | Garden walls | 12 blocks, 12 hits | hedge-maze v2 |
| Two towers | Garden walls | 12 blocks, 16 hits | two-towers v2 |
| Trellis | Garden walls | 10 blocks, 14 hits | trellis v2 |
| Rivets | Brass works | 8 blocks, 14 hits | rivets v2 |
| Arches | Brass works | 12 blocks, 12 hits | arches v2 |
| Keystone | Brass works | 10 blocks, 16 hits | keystone v2 |
| Shutters | Night shift | 10 blocks, 14 hits | shutters v2 |
| Lantern | Night shift | 8 blocks, 10 hits | lantern v2 |
| Comb | Night shift | 14 blocks, 16 hits | comb v2 |
Daily runs before Tuesday, 17 November 2026 use the practice boards in different orders. From that day on, every daily run has three new boards made for it: text layouts drawn by a generator (tools/topup.mjs) in the same format, checked by the same validator, and published only when the recorded winning inputs clear the run within the time and ball limits and a human-like autopilot (with reaction delays and aiming errors) clears it in at least 85% of its attempts. They appear only in their own daily run. The list of daily runs is published ahead of time and only ever extended; it currently runs from Sunday, 18 October 2026 to Sunday, 31 January 2027.
Artwork and sound
The blocks, ball, paddle, felt and icons are drawn in code: no image files, no stock art and no AI-generated pictures. The sounds are synthesized in your browser with the Web Audio API from a few lines of code each. The typeface is Bricolage Grotesque, used under the SIL Open Font License and served from this site.
Versions
Engine 1, physics 1, rules 1, saves 1. Saved runs and shared daily links carry these numbers, so a run made with different physics is never continued as if nothing changed.
Contact
Ideas, problems or a board that feels unfair: support@twindle.nl.