News and updates

What is new on Sketchpad Arcade: new games, what changed in old ones, and notes from the studio on how the games get drawn.

• Pencil Patrol: Stubby versus the erasers

  October 14, 2026

  A maze chase on a notebook page, with four erasers that each move their own way. Notes on drawing it and tuning the erasers.

• Paper Plane Dash and ten real folds

  October 13, 2026

  Our first original Sketchpad game, not a twin of anything. A tube-flying dash on black construction paper, with paper planes you could actually fold.

• Why every game got a new name

  October 10, 2026

  Sea Merge became Margin Merge, Tide Clash became Draw Brawl. The thinking behind renaming every game on the site, and what is still on the list.

• Sketch Sprint, the game that started the site

  October 9, 2026

  It began as a request to redraw a boardwalk runner like a ten-year-old's sketchbook. It ended up as a whole second site.

• How we decide what makes a Sketchpad Arcade game

  October 8, 2026

  The short list of rules every game on the site has to follow before it goes live.

• Welcome to Sketchpad Arcade

  October 8, 2026

  Free browser games drawn like a page from a kid's sketchbook, from a family studio in Pensacola, Florida. What the site is and why we made it.