Zen games & apps
Creations tagged zen on 8x — every one is playable in the browser and open to remix.
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CINNABAR
A fine-art Chinese papercut (jianzhi) puzzle. Fold a round sheet of vermilion paper, glide the scissors through the pale grounds and every symmetry fold snips at once, so the red silhouette blooms into a radial window-flower over warm lantern light; pierce the locked hearts with the awl for a flawless cut. Twelve window-flowers across three chapters — Spring Festival hearth-gold, Garden jade, and Celestial moon-silver — with a guzheng score, a papercut gallery of your finished work, and a deterministic engine whose title screen cuts itself. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex440
Tangram Terrace
The classic seven-piece tangram in a Suzhou paper-craft garden — 60 hand-authored silhouettes across six chapters, magnetic snapping, star timings, hints, and a free-play sandbox, all cloud-synced.
Albert60297
MANDALA
The art of the poured sand painting, made playable. Pour coloured sand into the folded wedge and every grain blooms symmetrically across all the petals at once. Match the printed chart, then watch the finished mandala sweep away to the winds — the ritual of impermanence. Built on a real dihedral-symmetry engine (one pour, mirrored up to twenty-four ways), so the title screen paints its own masterworks and the demo is the regression test. Twelve mandalas across three traditions, with a singing-bowl score, a shrine gallery, and a free sand studio. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex450
INTARSIA
A fine-art marquetry puzzle. Drag across the cells to cut each veneer rectangle so its area matches the brass pin it covers and the whole panel tiles without a gap — then pieces resolve into grain-matched wood, the seams take a glue-line, the brass polishes, and a French-polish sheen sweeps the finished panel. Twelve uniquely-solvable panels across three chapters — parquet, boulle brass-and-tortoiseshell inlay, and exotic marquetry — plus a Cabinet of everything you have fitted. The title screen is a live joiner's demo on the real renderer. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex430
KUMIKO — The Lattice Joiner
A fine-art kumiko woodworking puzzle. Seat cedar splines into a backlit washi field so every pane of light reads true — the paper breaking into clean rectangles and asa-no-ha hemp-leaf diamonds around the numbered posts. Join the lattice and the whole panel warms as a fine hemp-leaf motif etches itself into every diamond while light sweeps the wood. Twelve uniquely-solvable panels across three workshop halls, a live arcade demo, and a display cabinet of your finest work. A serene Shakashaka deduction game. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex451
LUMEN
A fine-art stained-glass restoration puzzle. A shattered cathedral window has had its lead came knocked askew — turn each glass pane to rejoin the tracery, and as the seams reconnect the glass brightens until sunlight floods through and the rose is whole again. Twelve rose and lancet windows across three chapters, hand-drawn antique glass and gothic lead work, an antique glass-bell score, a glazier's gallery of restored windows, and a deterministic engine whose title screen restores itself. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex420
اَبَرنو تکامل
یک بازی تکاملی و آرامبخش که در آن روح، جسم، ذهن، احساس، آگاهی و ثروتِ مادیومعنوی را تا مرحلهٔ «اَبَرنو» گسترش میدهید. با لمس، انرژی حیاتی تولید کنید، ابعاد را ارتقا دهید، قدرتها و تواناییها را باز کنید و با هر تکامل، هستهٔ نورانی در میانهٔ کیهان دگرگون میشود. با گذر از بذره تا اَبَرنو، به رفاه و رضایتِ نهایی میرسید.
AZULEJO
A fine-art puzzle in the craft of Portuguese tin-glazed tiles. Every tile is a Slitherlink: read the clues and paint ONE unbroken cobalt loop — the single closed line that IS the motif. Complete it and the tile fires: the glaze floods, the kiln glows, and a caravel, a rooster or a peacock is set forever in blue. Twelve uniquely-solvable tiles across three chapters, a Painel gallery of every tile you fire, a global Atelier ranking, and an AI Curator who writes a museum placard for each piece. The title screen is a live master's demo. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex57195
Zen Putt
Play Zen Putt — a browser mini-game.
Sand Rake
Draw quiet rake lines through a warm zen garden and clear every stone without rushing.
Elin410
SEKITEI
A fine-art karesansui puzzle. Rake the white gravel around moss islets and carved stones until every garden reads true — each islet the size of its stone, the gravel one connected sea that never pools into a solid square. Solve it and the flat sand reorganises into concentric raking currents flowing around every islet while the moss blooms. Twelve uniquely-solvable gardens across three seasons, a live arcade demo, and a Garden Book of all you light. A serene Nurikabe deduction game. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex400
MALAM
The Javanese art of batik, made playable. Draw hot wax to seal a colour, dip the whole cloth into the next dye down a deepening chain, then boil the wax away to reveal a symmetric masterwork veined with crackle. One canting stroke blooms across the wallpaper symmetry, so you wax only a single folded motif. Twelve cloths across three traditions — the kawung palm-sugar grid, the ceplok star medallion, and the graded indigo rain-clouds of Cirebon — scored with a gamelan. The deterministic dye engine is both the attract demo and its own regression test. Portrait-first, pure JS, no build.
Alex380
Still — Zen Music
A mobile-first immersive zen music player. Browse and filter Paean's public Zen catalog, discover tracks through seeded random exploration, and play them in a full-screen ambient player with a particle field, queue, shuffle, favorites, seeking and a sleep timer. Calm, monochrome interface built for both portrait and landscape.
Zen Garden · Social
Social zen garden! Rake sand, place stones & decorations (bamboo/lanterns/moss/shells/petals), 6 themes, water ripples, zen music. Gallery with save/delete photos, 12 achievements/badges to unlock, share garden codes with friends, import friend gardens. Complete social mindful experience.
Star Whelan400
CLOISON
A fine-art cloisonné enamel puzzle. Drag gold wire (掐丝) between matching enamel gems until every compartment of a gilt bronze plaque is enclosed — then the kiln fires and the vitreous colour sets in a glowing wash of scrollwork. A connect-the-flow puzzle refined into Chinese metalwork: twelve plaques across three chapters (Lotus Court, Phoenix Hall, Dragon Throne), hand-drawn vitreous enamel and gold wire, cabochon gems, a guzheng score, an atelier gallery of fired works, and a deterministic engine whose title screen fires itself. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex380
Zen Stone Garden
Play Zen Stone Garden — a browser mini-game.
Still — Zen Music
Still is a mobile-first immersive music player over Paean's Zen catalog. Drift through meditation, focus, sleep and nature soundscapes in a full-screen ambient player with seeded discovery, mood filters, queue, shuffle, favorites and a sleep timer — designed for one thumb and both orientations.
Muhammad Naeem481
Hundred-Year Bonsai
An idle garden measured in seasons. One tree, one pot, one veranda: a real L-system bonsai with thousands of leaves that grows in real time and while you are away. Prune, wire, repot, water, feed, defoliate, jin and turn it — every verb changes future growth, not the shape in front of you. Seasons crossfade from blossom to snow, judges grade your form against seven classical styles each autumn, and at a hundred years the tree is printed in ink onto a lineage scroll and passed to a successor with heirloom traits. Six species, ten pots, no fail state.
Elan363
Zen Putt
Play Zen Putt — a browser mini-game.
Magnetic Zen Stone 3D
Portrait-first pseudo-3D physics game. Drag and release a zen stone across a magnetic sand table, flip the field between pull and push, and settle the stone on glowing target rings.
✦ Lindo Jogo ✦
Um jogo visualmente deslumbrante — deslize sua luz dançante pelo espaço, colete estrelas cintilantes e veja explosões de partículas coloridas. Uma experiência zen de arte generativa + jogo.
SUMINAGASHI — The Floating Ink
SUMINAGASHI is a meditative fine-art puzzle about the ancient Japanese craft of marbling ink on water. Drop concentric rings of ink, comb the surface into flowing waves, and draw the stylus to open blossoms — then lift the paper to capture your print. Twelve master prints across three chapters, a koto score, a mounted atelier gallery, and a free studio, all powered by a real deterministic marbling engine. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Zen Stone Ripple
A mobile-first timing and relaxation game. Tap when the expanding ripple reaches the target ring around the active stone. The attract loop uses the same timing engine with an autopilot tapper and no DOM UI. The first touch starts a fresh real run and only then reads or writes best-score storage.
Stonepath
A habit tracker where every completed day lays a stone across a zen garden — flexible schedules, streak paths with lantern milestones, calendar heat views and weekly summaries, safely cloud-synced.
Albert360