Show HN: Turn Any Webpage into a Game

#1

Post by dassh » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 1:17 PM UTC

Hi HN, I built a thing that turns any webpage you're visiting into an interactive arcade: https://playanypage.com/

It's a fun little project built entirely around bookmarklets and DOM manipulation. Inspired by the classic Kick Ass app, I loved the idea of playing on any website, so I decided to take it a step further and build an entire arcade inside a single bookmarklet.

You just drag it to your bookmarks, click it on any site, and it immediately plays on top of the DOM.

Brickout: Turns every text block and element on the page into a brick you can smash.

Also made Snake, Space Invaders, Whack-a-Mole, and a chaotic Page Taxi that drives all over your screen.

Re: Show HN: Turn Any Webpage into a Game

#2

Post by vunderba » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC

Nice job. I've seen a couple of these interactive DOM games (breakout is especially popular) but 99% of them have been Firefox/Chrome extensions so it's nice to see one that is a simple bookmark.

If you wanted to get really crazy, you could take it a step further and change things based on each word’s part of speech. Such as you could alter the behavior of the game so that proper nouns become “tougher” blocks.

Re: Show HN: Turn Any Webpage into a Game

#3

Post by dassh » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

vunderba wrote: post #2

Nice job. I've seen a couple of these interactive DOM games (breakout is especially popular) but 99% of them have been Firefox/Chrome extensions so it's nice to see one that is a simple bookmark. If you wanted to get really crazy, you could take it a step further and change things based on each word’s part of speech. Such as you could alter the behavior of the game so that proper nouns become “tougher” blocks.

The default mode already does something along those lines — certain elements take two hits to break. But for the hidden B-side mode I went in the completely opposite direction: the ball phases through everything by default. See if you can find it ;)