ShipChat Play is where the games live. Browse the Marketplace, open anything in your browser, install it to your phone, your watch, or your home screen — and if a game has an online mode, this is the account and the lobby that make it work.
Playing
Every game runs four ways, and you pick whichever suits you:
- In the browser — open it and play, nothing to install.
- As an app on your phone — either install the page as a PWA from the browser's own menu, or scan the QR code on its card for the Android build.
- On your watch — games that fit a wrist have a Wear OS build, again by QR code.
- Offline — installed games keep working with no connection and no account. Single-player never asks you to sign in.
Playing with other people
Online play needs one sign-in, and only one: sign in once and every game here knows who you are. That exists so a match is between real people rather than throwaway names — it is the whole reason an account is involved at all.
What you get for it is shared by every game rather than rebuilt per game:
- Friends — added by a short code you read out or send, never by searching for names, so nobody can find you unless you chose to be findable.
- Rooms — make one and it is listed to everyone who is online, so a match can come from a stranger as well as a friend. Each game says how many players it seats, and a room will not overfill.
- Invites and presence — see which friends are around and what they are playing, and invite them straight into a room, whichever game either of you is looking at.
On a phone or watch, the ShipChat Play app holds your sign-in and the lobby, and launches games into their seat. In a browser, each game page draws the lobby itself. Either way it is one account.
Where the games come from
They are built by voice: someone describes a game to an AI coding agent, and it writes, builds and deploys it. That is why the Marketplace grows in odd directions, why some entries are rougher than others, and why you can suggest one — the suggestion box on the Marketplace is a real route to a real app, and the thread stays visible while it is being built.
The small print, in short
This is a hobby project running on a home server, not a company. Nothing is sold, there are no ads and no tracking. The only thing stored about you is what an account needs, and you can delete all of it yourself at any time. See the Privacy Policy and Terms.