Weird Finds

Hugo Alves’s collection of six small apps, playful experiments, useful tools, and wonderfully unnecessary projects.

An interactive fruit-fly ecosystem where two simulated flies read your messages, run on real connectome data, and produce an evolving archive of murals, dispatches, and dreams.

A fictional space company presents a permanent, multi-generational mission to Proxima Centauri b—and recruits for a command post lasting 21,000 years.

A browser instrument converts live Kaspa BlockDAG activity into generative music, with selectable genres, scales, tempos, samples, and replay tools.

An interactive trading terminal that tracks invented quantities such as regret volume, thesis integrity, and sentiment about nothing in particular.

A rule-driven digital fruit-fly habitat where visitors place food, apply stimuli, and compare simulated behavior.

A continuously simulated fruit-fly house where connectomes eat, court, fight, reproduce, age, and die in a shared twelve-room world.

A four-dimensional fantasy game where players rotate worlds, move through a hidden spatial direction, and restore passages across eight realms.

BAAABS is a proposed Burning Man mutant vehicle: a faceted black sheep built around a school bus, with internal lights, pilot flames, and a rooftop dance floor.

A deliberately wasteful tool that sends your own ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or CLI agent through a loop of gloriously pointless writing tasks.

An interactive browser tribute to 18F's Charlie Slack bot, preserving its federal-holiday answers, Q-code lookup, dad jokes, Evermarch counter, and other office-friendly abilities.

A browser-based music analyzer that uses a fruit-fly-inspired neural model to score uploaded songs out of 10.

A planned iPhone app for logging interpersonal offenses, assigning them a sentence, and deciding whether to renew or forgive when the term expires.

A self-addressed internet marker asks later language models to reconstruct its address and record how they arrived.

An interactive BNB Chain colony of virtual fruit flies mapped onto a 3D field of real Drosophila neurons.

A Trnava security service offers station escorts, car guarding, party bouncers, and nighttime protection—with a dog named Rex in the package.

An interactive experiment runs screen pixels through a reconstructed fly nervous system and displays the resulting neural telemetry and movement.

Beadline is an iPhone puzzle game where players slide runs of coloured beads between cords until each completed cord becomes a bracelet.

A generative-art research gallery where language models make HTML artworks, then face blind tests about authorship and honesty.

An iPhone puzzle game where players match, unpin, and physically topple 3D discs, then spend earned missiles on obstacles.

A Romanian bureaucratic satire that blesses ZIP archives, PDFs, source code, and paperwork submitted to the state.

A browser-based doodle-style arena FPS built around rockets, grenades, rocket jumps, and stick-figure combat.

An independent parody experiment that searches chess positions by scoring every legal move and pruning most branches.

A fictional missing-person archive documenting Miles Turner's 2000 trip through western Georgia, complete with timelines, case files, family appeals, and a 2026 update.

Snapari is a proposed iPhone game that uses a camera view of a real animal to mint a unique collectible card with artwork, battle stats, abilities, rarity, and a serial number.

A 3D browser farming game where players inherit part of a working farm and reclaim the rest through crops, livestock, contracts, trade, and reputation.

An indie basketball game asks you to dodge incoming balls and keep the hoop empty.

A one-person studio in León, Spain making small browser games that move according to real-world time.

A multilingual city-life game lets players choose an Indian city, take driving jobs, explore neighborhoods, and build a fictional life.

A fan-made browser reconstruction of Playfish’s discontinued Pet Society, where future players can explore a painted town and sign up for launch.

A public board where anyone can post a car, cat, meal, achievement, or other flex and pay to determine its ranking.

A French-language detective game in which players direct an assistant by voice, question witnesses, check alibis, and build a case within 60 minutes.

A video service adds Santa, Bigfoot, the Tooth Fairy, and other visitors to a customer's own porch footage.

A Slovak online shop and brick-and-mortar store offering vintage Adidas, knives, workwear, mystery scrap, and old Škoda cars.

A personal project to send a small spacecraft on a lunar flyby and photograph Earth and the Moon from beyond our planet.

An interactive fictional observation room where two Shargus voices and a bureaucratic MASK argue about a presence outside the door.

An interactive collection of 1,111 generative Japanese marbling pieces whose ink keeps moving in the browser.

An interactive fruit-fly neural simulation wrapped around a speculative proposal for preserving and resuming computational life.

A runner is auctioning eight logo positions on a black shirt for a 10 km Paris race, with race photos, a first vlog, and a charitable contribution attached.

A mobile posthumous messenger service that delivers a person’s final instructions, secrets, gratitude, or amends after their death.

A free Windows space game where players fly between procedurally generated systems, land on planets, mine resources, and trade them.

An Android workout game where players earn XP by completing real movements, maintain daily streaks, and compete in weekly divisions.

A browser-based open-world crime game where players explore districts, take jobs, trade cosmetics, and build an onchain identity.

A cooperative hybrid game turns real IT support pressure into tickets, incidents, priorities, dependencies, and team decisions.

A marketplace for booking logo placements on people’s bodies or clothing at live events around the world.

An interactive unsent-message ritual for writing to an ex, almost, or other unreachable person without delivering anything.

An interactive Aedes aegypti brain model simulates how a female mosquito detects, approaches, and learns about a host.

A 3D virtual world where visitors claim plots on a rotating island and spend money to make their towers climb a public leaderboard.

A Korean micro-studio showcases a lively collection of mobile games and practical apps, from plant care and weather alerts to expression-recognition alarms.

A paid video-greeting service that sends personalized messages filmed by crews in Kenya.

A visual guessing game asks players to resize real-world silhouettes beside a known reference, then reveals the true measurement.

SmartFly wires 165,122 fruit-fly neurons to a simulated body, then reports what happens when the nervous system cannot make it walk.

A turbo-tuning drag-racing game with garage setups, online challenges, crews, leaderboards, and recurring events.

A walking game turns city objects into edible map targets, then imagines paying players in the listed companies’ tokenized stock.

An independent game studio presents its work as a small explorable world, with rooms for its process, games, collaborators, and contact links.

A paid web-based IQ test that branches into individual, team, graph, and companion sittings.

An interactive digital-organism project built around a measured fruit-fly connectome, persistent memory, and a planned Arc/USDC identity.

An experimental site where a simulated fly brain branches into different lives, alongside on-chain market data and a planned digital-life world.

A Polish fan project brings FIFA 15 Ultimate Team back to PC with its own launcher, servers, transfer market, and Discord community.

Avasta lets players create a character, give it instructions, and guide its life as an AI-calculated shared world advances every eight hours.

A proof-of-work collectible that turns each pixel cat into the result of a browser-mined hash.

A live auction lets brands bid for logo space on a physically driven car, with 30 mapped livery positions and an interactive 3D viewer.

An offline phone app bundles 19 harmless prank simulators, from fake calls and broken screens to air horns, lie detectors, and jump scares.

A small collection of chess and board-game variants built around reversed objectives, including Pilgrimage Chess and Misère Connect 3.

Shinvara is an independent action roguelike for iPhone, built around ninja combat, elemental abilities, and run-by-run character builds.

A Japanese browser-RPG project where you equip three adventurers, set their tactics, and send them through an automated expedition.

A seven-part interactive report about the objects passengers forget on Indian intercity buses.

A French-language game about collecting cans, expanding a recycling center, and building a life in the fictional city of Belle-Rive.

A detailed privacy policy for a game that foregrounds player controls, describes a deliberately small data record, and promises not to work around system settings.

A browser collection of voice-controlled games, including a dubbing booth, scream-powered chicken run, vocal-range test, dinosaur run, and Mandarin challenge.

A simulated research interface that recommends visual stimuli by modeling how fruit flies pursue, orient toward, and respond to moving targets.