Calsynergy Games
Small games for your phone, made by one person. Every one is built and played on a real phone before it ships, and all nine are free on Google Play.
Nine games for Android, each played with one thumb. All free to play. Where there are ads, one small purchase turns them off for good.
Candle making game and factory simulator: steer wax, dip, light and sell.
Slide your thumb across a moving conveyor belt and steer a whole batch of candles through pools of molten wax. They come out the far end dipped, lit and ready to sell. The last pool you cross decides the color, and a clean, steady line pays more than zig-zagging. Sell each batch to climb from intern to tycoon through six factories.
Dino evolution run game: shoot gates, evolve into a T-rex and smash the wall.
Drag your thumb and your little raptor runs, and wherever you steer, you shoot. Gates stand across the road in four types, and the type you shoot most is what you evolve into at the next arch, out of sixteen forms. Every world ends at a wall of numbered stone blocks you have to smash your way through.
Relaxing offline fishing game that turns creepy: cast, catch 32 fish, go deep.
You sit in a rowboat on a still lake at dawn, cast, watch the float and strike when it dips. Each fight is a reel you flick with your thumb while you keep a tension gauge out of the red. More line lets you fish deeper, and the lake grows quietly wrong the deeper you go. Nothing jumps at you, but a few moments are unsettling.
Cozy grass cutting game: whack weeds, grow your yard, upgrade to a lawn mower
You step off the back porch with a stick and drag your thumb across an overgrown yard. Grass is cut in neat rows, weeds pop into coins, and there is no game over. Spend the coins on tools you can see in your hand, from a cricket bat to a string trimmer, then buy the gate and push the fence out into wilder ground, where a boss weed waits.
Wrecking ball game: swing the crane and bring buildings down where you aim
Slide your thumb to turn a crawler crane, let go, and the wrecking ball flies out and swings home by itself. Every building stands on a grid of columns, and what you leave standing decides how it falls. Take the middle and the floors drop straight down. Take the wrong ones and it leans onto the houses next door, or onto your crane.
Run, jump and smash crates as a glossy slime in a one-thumb 3D platformer!
The slime runs down a cobbled jungle path on its own. Tap to jump, land on a crate to burst it, swipe to spin, flick down to slam, and run before the TNT counts down to zero. Six worlds hide secret exits and mini games, and every level you clear carries water home to a withered tree that slowly comes back to life.
Snowball roll game: roll a snow ball downhill, grow huge, build a winter village
Push a snowball off the top of a mountain at dusk and lean it left or right with one thumb. Everything smaller than the ball sticks to it, anything a little bigger knocks snow off, and anything much bigger is a wall. Whatever reaches the village at the bottom becomes snow to build with. A run takes about a minute.
A mining game: drill down a dead world to its core, then escape before it falls.
You set your ship down on a dead planet, point the drill at the ground and hold. Your lamp lights only the shaft you cut. Everything you carry makes the climb heavier, so you choose when to send the haul home. Cut out the core and the planet starts to come apart, and the only way out is back up your own tunnel.
A dig down mining game: drill for ore, upgrade your ship, open the Vault.
Hold down and your ship digs. Sell ore at the surface pad, find the keys you never sell, and break the Anchors that hold three barriers shut. The planet starts to come apart once the first core goes.
Coming soon: Beacon Hill, a tower defense game: build by day, then beam and pulse the dark by night. Ebblight, a lighthouse horror game: keep the lamp lit, comb the beach at low tide and carry oil home before dark. And Capy Knight, where a timid capybara grows into a knight beside Princess Ginger Cat.
Calsynergy Games is one person making small games for phones. Each game starts with one idea you can play with one thumb, then gets tuned until it is worth coming back to.
Questions, bug reports and ideas are all welcome.
contact@calsynergygames.com