Artaban Interactive

An independent studio of one. Artaban loads nothing to play itself — every sprite is drawn and every note synthesised as you go. Thunderhead is the exception, and wears it: its voice is cut from recordings of real machines.

Made by Ian Sage in Cootes Paradise

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Android · out now ARTABAN

A carnival booth rigged by physics. Twenty-five challenges, a weekly tournament, and one rule: the ball only counts on the way back.

Artaban title screen: a hand-painted carnival banner under string lights — Before anything goes wrong

Challenge 1: pulling the ball back on its rope, the bottle waiting — Pulling back is the easy part

The bottle knocked down on the return swing — DOWN IT GOES! — It only counts on the way back

The book of tickets, one stub per challenge, punches earned — One stub per challenge

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Pinball · free, nothing to install THUNDERHEAD An original machine, built from scratch: a storm god, a vortex skill shot, two locks, and a ramp over the top to a plinko canopy. Play free →

How it is made

8,009lines of JavaScript in Artaban. No game engine underneath it.
0sprites, textures or audio files in the game itself. Every frame is drawn and every sound synthesised as you play.
27of Thunderhead's effects, cut from recordings of real electromechanical pinball machines.

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Artaban Interactive — small games, made carefully