Arcade Homework — turn their homework into the games you loved as a kid

How it works

Sunday night. Crumpled sheet. Sorted in a minute.

Any homework, three ways in: photograph the sheet, upload the file the school sent, or just say it out loud.

Snap it

Photo of the sheet, the school's PDF, or type "8 times tables, due Friday." We read it and build the game plan.

Check it

You see every question before they do — fix anything, pick which kid it's for, done. You stay in charge of what they practise.

Press start

Hand the device over. They're not doing worksheets any more — they're defending Earth with their spelling list.

The machines

A real arcade. Powered by their real homework.

Pixel art, chiptune sound effects, three lives, hi-scores with three-letter initials. The whole glorious 90s — except every question comes from this week's schoolwork.

SNOT DROP

Spelling · sight words

A drip of something terrible dangles over an innocent bystander. Type the word before it lands. Kids find this disgusting. Kids love this.

BOOGER BLASTERS

Times tables · number facts

Invaders descend carrying maths facts. Type an answer, blast the one that matches. Choose your targets — they don't wait around.

MUNCHER

Any homework

One right answer hides in a grid of very convincing wrong ones. Eat it, dodge the monster, don't get fooled by "freind".

+ QUEST MODE FOR WEEK-LONG TASKS · MORE MACHINES IN THE WORKSHOP

For the sceptical parent (good — stay sceptical)

Under the pixel art: the boring science that actually works

Retrieval practice. Every game is your child pulling answers from memory — the single best-evidenced way to make learning stick.
Accuracy before speed. Timed machines stay locked until a relaxed, untimed round is beaten. No pressure until they're ready for it.
Mistakes get fixed, not shown. A miss means try again with growing hints until they produce the answer themselves — then it comes back later in the round to prove it stuck.
Failure is funny. The cartoon gets splatted, never the kid. Wrong answers cost a life, not their confidence.

Their homework is not our product

Photos and files are read, then deleted. We keep the questions, never the sheet. Nothing is sold, shared, or used to train anything.

No ads. No coins to buy. No chat with strangers. Just their homework, an arcade, and a hi-score to beat.

Built by two parents in Melbourne who got tired of the Sunday-night homework fight — and figured the games we grew up on could win it.

This week's homework is already sitting in the school bag

Go get it. You're one photo away from "can I do my homework now?"

▶ Press start — free in early access

NO CREDIT CARD · NO ADS · WORKS ON ANY DEVICE