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Ziggy Games
An arcade built for one kid
A custom arcade made around one boy: his dog, his sports, his favorite football team and a hundred small details only his family would notice. It's the clearest picture of what a custom game can be.
- Built for
- Ziggy, and anyone he sends the link to
- Sports inside
- Soccer, hockey, pickleball, arena soccer
- Arcade opened
- September 30, 2026
- Plays on
- iPads, Chromebooks, phones, laptops
The brief
Ziggy Games started with a single game Ray Miles, who founded this studio, made for his son: a game starring Ziggy and Pam, the family's black pug. It lived on a simple page, and it worked.
In late September 2026 the brief got bigger: turn the site into a cinematic 1980s arcade with the original Ziggy.games logo, where every game is a machine you walk up to, with real animation and nothing that feels generic, and fill it with games made from Ziggy's own world.
The details that make it his
This is the arcade as it looks in a desktop browser. Tap a number.
The sports games inside
The arcade's sports games are the Paper Kid lineup, and Ziggy is on the field in every one of them.
Soccer Kids
Ziggy plays for Blue, spiky hair and all, with a lightning bolt where his number would be. Pam watches from the sideline on her leash, and the families under the tents hold signs for the kids.
Hockey Kids
The same eight kids on the park blacktop with sticks. Ziggy is on the Blue four, and the game teaches the rule every floor hockey kid learns the hard way: stay out of the crease.
Pickle Kids
Ziggy and Maya against Leo and Priya, with the score called out the way grown-up players say it.
Ziggy & Pam Sports Arena
The first sports game in the arcade: Ziggy against Pam, head to head. Pam is quicker and dribbles closer, Ziggy has the bigger kick, and either one can win.
Built for the family iPad
On a laptop or an iPad, the arcade is a 3D room: tap a machine to walk up to it, tap again to play. The family plays on an iPad, so the 3D room stays on tablets even though it's the heavier choice. That was the family's call, and it stuck.
On a phone, the room becomes a drawn arcade with a screenshot card for every game. Every game has a way back, and you come back to the machine you left.
How it was made
In short rounds. The family plays a build, says what is wrong, and the next build fixes it, often the same evening. Most of the games went from first ask to playable in a day.
Around the arcade
What this means for your kid
Ziggy Games is the biggest version of what we do. The same kinds of details go into every game we build, whether it's one Player Edition or a whole world.
A note on privacy
Everything in the games is drawn. We never put a child's photo in a game, and you decide which real places appear and whether they're named.
- Their look: hair, skin, glasses, freckles and favorite cleats
- Their name and number, called out by an announcer
- Their team, their colors and their friends on the roster
- Their pet, as a sidekick, a fan or a rival
- Real places they know, from public map data, named only if you want
- The teams they root for, as posters, pennants and secret codes
- Their own drawings, framed on the walls of the game
- The game they can't stop playing, rebuilt around their rules
Build an arcade for your kid
Start with one game and grow it into a world, or start with the world. Either way it begins with your player.