What is eddiesgames.xyz?
eddiesgames.xyz is my home for small browser games: quick to play, easy to share, and built without making players create accounts, hand over personal data, or download anything.
The site is part game collection, part development lab. Each game gives me a way to work through game logic, responsive layouts, score handling, Cloudflare deployment, and the kind of tiny details that only show up once real people start poking buttons.
Why Cloudflare?
I chose Cloudflare because the project needed to stay lean. The games do not need a giant backend or a pile of infrastructure. They need fast hosting, simple deploys, lightweight API routes, and a small database for daily scores.
Cloudflare Pages handles the hosting, GitHub handles the deployment flow, and Cloudflare D1 gives the project a practical place to store daily leaderboard data.
Current games
The site already includes several games, including REDACTED, MATCH, REACTION, SEQUENCE, SHIFT, and Sudoku. Each one is designed around a short-session loop, daily scoring, or quick replayability.
Sudoku across platforms
Sudoku turned into a larger project than expected, which is exactly why it has been useful. There is a Python version for puzzle generation, validation, solving, and testing. There is a web version for eddiesgames.xyz. There is also a Unity version in progress, with WebGL and mobile builds planned.
That sounds like overkill, and it is. But it is useful overkill. The same puzzle exposes different problems in Python, the browser, and Unity: logic, UI, input, validation, layout, testing, and platform deployment.
Banner ads or no banner ads?
The site has space for banner ads, but that does not mean ads need to be switched on immediately. The better order is to build the games, polish the experience, get enough traffic to justify the tradeoff, and only then decide whether ads make sense.
Nobody needs a billboard in an empty field.
What comes next?
The plan is simple: more games, better polish, stronger writeups, and a growing library of small projects that are actually playable. The site should become a proper destination, not just a folder of demos wearing a domain name.