Game night,
no controllers needed.
Be one of the first to play the Happy Light Arcade, and help us make it better.
Put a party game on the TV or a laptop. Everyone joins from their own phone with a four-letter room code. No app to download and no account to play.
- Free to play
- Your phone is the controller
- Nothing to install, no ads
It's early days, so things will break. Found a bug or have an idea for a game? Tell us on the forum: our first players decide what we build next.
Start with a game.
No sign-up wall, no trial, no card — click one and you are playing. Run a tournament with Battle, or draw your own character in Pixel Studio and try it out in the Sandbox.
Play it · Compete · Make your own
Play with friends, then make a game of your own.
Arcade
The cosiest, most relaxing couch gaming platform.
Twelve couch party games, from Paddle Powers and Snake Arena to Block Battles, RummiTiles and Mic Drop. Put the game on the big screen, everyone else joins with a four-letter room code and plays with their phone. No app to install, and no account to play.
- Twelve party games
- Phones are the gamepads
- Four-letter room code
Battle
Keep it friendly, but show no Mercy!
A tournament organiser for the Arcade or any other game or sport: single and double elimination, round robin, Swiss, groups then knockout, and free-for-all heats. Share one link so everyone can follow the bracket live, and another so players can report their own results. Running a tournament takes a free account; playing and watching do not.
- Brackets, leagues and Swiss
- Live share link for everyone
- Players report their own results
Pixel Studio
Draw a character, pose by pose.
Draw a sprite as named poses — idle, walk, run, jump, attack — or as eight compass headings for top-down and isometric work. Mirror a walk cycle, set the speed of each pose, watch it animate as you draw, and export PNG or JSON.
- Poses, compass or free sheet
- Speed per pose
- Export PNG or JSON
Sandbox
Put your sprite in a level and see how it moves.
Send a sprite over from Pixel Studio in one click and walk it around. Drag out platforms, ledges and hazards, tune jump height, gravity, walk and run speed while it plays, bind keys to attack or block poses, and check it all side-on, top-down and isometric.
- Side, top-down and isometric
- Jump, gravity, walk and run sliders
- Platforms, ledges and hazards
Arcade, 1 of 4
See all 12 toolsPlus 8 more, from writing and video to maths and search.
Help us test
You're early, and that makes you a tester. Tell us which game you want next, what's missing or what broke — the forum is where we read it.
Planned One day this becomes a little isometric world. You wander it as a pixel ghost with a few silly animations, every thread is a room, and comments are notes you pin to its walls.
Four promises we keep.
No ads.
Your attention isn't the product. Supporters pay for Happy Light, not advertisers, so there are no ads, no trackers and no analytics on this site or in the apps.
No account wall.
9 of the 12 tools open the moment you click them. You only need an account for Search and for sync.
Private by default.
Your work stays in your own browser. Nothing leaves it unless you choose to connect storage, sync or an AI model yourself.
Yours to keep.
A paid plan comes with a download of the apps and their source code. Your copy keeps working after you cancel.
How that works
Signing in with Google? We keep only your name, email address and Google account ID, and anything you save to Google Drive goes straight from your browser to your own Drive. How we handle Google data
Fair, simple, no tricks.
Every tool is free to use. We charge for what costs us money (hosting, updates and support), we're open about where it goes, and subscribers get something real back.
Free to start
Every tool on this page is free to use, today. Paid plans are a way to support the work, not a gate in front of it.
Fair and transparent
Clear prices, cancel anytime, and an honest page about why we charge at all.
Buy the software. Keep the software.
Your subscription isn't a rental. A paid plan comes with a download of the apps and their source code. Use them offline, change them to suit you, and keep your copy forever — even if you cancel. You just stop getting updates.
- Offline access. Download the apps and run them on your own machine, no connection needed.
- The source code. Read how it works, fix what bugs you, build the feature you wish it had.
- Forever. Your copy keeps working after you cancel. No licence server, no kill switch.
Source-available, not open source: the code is yours to run, read and improve for yourself, but not to redistribute or resell. Search runs on our server, so it isn't part of the download.