What's New

Three games now have a run of the day. Everyone who plays it gets exactly the same content, it has its own leaderboard, and both reset at midnight UTC. They are on the portal under Today's challenges.

• Michris deals the same pieces to everyone, in the same order, all day. No more losing a run to a drought nobody else got.
• Michitaire deals one tableau a day. The same seven columns for every player - so "that one was impossible" is finally something you can argue about.
• Simeown Says plays the same sequence, pad for pad.
• Each challenge keeps its own board for the day, next to a Share button that copies your result. Your normal personal bests and the all-time boards are untouched - a daily is its own ladder, not a second way onto the main one.
• Michordle already worked this way and still does; it has had a word of the day since it shipped.

Only games whose content can genuinely be dealt in advance get one, which is why it is three and not thirty-one. In Snake or 2048 the next thing to appear depends on where you already are, so two players stop having the same game on the first move - and in Rugsweeper the mines are laid around wherever you click first, so no two players ever get the same grid.

Two things that were missing rather than broken. Six of the games that run on a clock had no way to stop them, and the trivia asked its questions in the same order every single time.

• Pause works in Michris, Pac-Michi, Michiconda, Space Inmeowders, Brick-a-Michi and Meow Machine. Press P or Esc, or tap the button in the corner. On a computer you could always switch tabs and the game would quietly stop; on a phone there was no version of that, so a good run and a doorbell were the same thing.
• Pausing does not cost you a power-up. The timers on a power pellet, a bonus coin, a spread shot or a laser paddle are held until you come back, instead of running out behind the pause screen. And the games pause themselves when you switch away - they wait for you rather than starting again on their own.
• Meow Machine resumes in time. The whole track is generated in your browser, so the pause stops the music clock with it and the song picks up exactly where it left off.
• Who Wants to be a Michillionaire? shuffles. Forty-five rounds and a hundred and thirty-five questions, and until now they came in the same order with the right answer always in the same spot - so the second time through was a memory test. The rounds and the answers are dealt fresh every run now. The questions inside a round still climb 100, 200, 300.

A pass over all thirty-one games looking for things that were broken, unfair or just plain. It found one game that could not be played on a phone at all, two that were throwing away scores, and several drawn on backgrounds with nothing in them.

• Michi's Magical Card Game is playable on a phone. It was rendering 905 pixels wide inside a 390-pixel screen, so the cards, the Reset button and the sound toggle were all off the right edge with no way to scroll to them. Fixed - the board now fits, and the cards sit together instead of drifting apart on a desktop.
• Winning Who Wants to be a Michillionaire? counts. Only losing did. Finish every question with lives to spare and your score went nowhere: not to the leaderboard, not to your personal best. It does now.
• Crate-a-Michi scores every level, not just the eighth. Solve seven boards and stop and you used to record nothing at all. Your running total is banked after each one.
• Tower of Meowbel got a sky. The climb now goes from dusk through night to space, with stars, drifting cloud, a moon that turns up once you are high enough, and a rule across the board every ten blocks. A michi rides every third block, and the one you are aiming always. Landing dead centre throws sparks.
• Michi to the Moon has a moon in it. It only appeared past 6000m before, which almost nobody reached. It is there from the first jump now - small and far, growing and coming closer the higher you get. Pads glow, springs show their coil, and a rising michi leaves a tail.
• The Liquidity Pool has a dock. michi was floating in mid-air over the water with the rod drawn nowhere. There are planks and posts under the cat now, a rod the line actually leaves from, a moon, and its reflection broken across the ripples.
• Meowni Golf's course looks like a course - lit fairway, visible mowing stripes, rough around the edge, a cup with a lip and a shadow, and a trail behind a rolling ball.
• Pinch-to-zoom works again on every page. Twenty-nine of them switched it off. Double-tapping still counts as two taps, which is what that setting was really for.
• Footer links are easier to hit on a phone - roughly twice the tap area, in the same space.

Two things, and the first one you will notice without being told: the arcade got a lot lighter. Every michi meme on the site now comes in three sizes and each page asks for the one it actually draws, which on a phone is the difference between waiting and playing.

• The front page is less than half the size it was - 1.8MB down to 855KB - and the games did better than that. Michi Puzzle went from 3.2MB to 900KB (it was loading all twenty-one puzzle memes before it would start, to use one), Meowney Printer from 2.2MB to 411KB, Michivolution from 1.6MB to 331KB, Pac-Michi from 1.2MB to 254KB. Nothing looks any different; the pictures were simply ten to twenty times larger than the boxes they were drawn in.
• Tower Defense: tower combinations are real. Nine of them were written into the game and none of them did anything. Build three Basic Towers and Powershot gives every tower +25% damage; two Advanced ones is Synergy; one of every base type plus the two level-25 unlocks is Harmony, at +60% damage, +40% range and +40% fire rate. Whatever you have earned shows as a chip under the wave counter.
• The MAGA Tower chills. Its 1000 coins bought five shots, chain lightning, piercing and splash - and a slow that was written down and never fired. Anything it hits, and anything caught in the blast, now moves at half pace for three seconds and carries a frost ring while it does.
• Your run is scored at the end. Enemies defeated, damage dealt, towers built, money earned, research bought and clean waves - counted all along, shown to nobody until now.

Until now a leaderboard name was whatever you typed and a player was whatever your browser remembered. Both are still true for guests. What changed is that you can now be the same person on two devices, and that nobody posts as nobody.

• Optional accounts. Create one with a name, an email and a password. The name is yours alone - unique across the site, marked with a ✓ on every board - and your personal bests follow you to any device you sign in on. Sign in on a browser that already has guest scores and they move into the account.
• Pick a name before a score goes up. Guests still play everything without signing up, but the first time a run would reach a board with no name on it the game asks for one and holds the run until you answer. Nothing appears as "anon" from here on.
• A privacy policy and a data policy, written from the code: every field a guest or an account leaves behind, where it lives, how long it stays, and the buttons on the account page that delete it - your scores, your browser's data, or the whole account.
• Nothing new runs in your browser from anyone else. Accounts talk to Amazon Cognito directly for anything involving a password and to this site for everything else. No hosted login page, no third-party script.

The game underneath was already the deepest on the site - a wallet, a shop, four grades of ball, golden michis - and it was dressed in a grey box with a typewriter font that never actually loaded. It looks like the flagship now.

• A red handheld with a lens and three status lights, and a dark inset screen with scanlines inside it. Every screen of the game lives on that screen.
• The pixel font is real. The page had asked for one since day one and always fell back to Courier. It ships with the site now - and it is used only for titles, buttons and numbers. Descriptions, flavour text and Prof. Muski's lines are in a face you can read.
• Four locations redrawn from scratch. The living room's TV flickers and the lamp breathes; the park's clouds drift and the trees sway; the fort's fairy lights twinkle and its flag flaps; the alley's neon MEOW sign buzzes over the dumpster. Each is a scene, not four rectangles.
• A wild michi appears in the place you found it. The encounter stages the portrait inside that location's scene, with its stats as meters instead of bare numbers. On a desktop the info and the actions sit beside it in one column, with the throw as the big red button it always should have been.
• Stars burst out of the ball when it locks, the nav lights up the screen you are on, and the dex, shop and trainer profile got the same treatment - bigger tiles, price tags, a rank badge.

The link preview for the portal used to say "thirty-one free browser games" next to a wizard. It is now a proper arcade marquee: pixel type, a coin-shaped Super Saiyan michi, and $MICHI's own line - Solana's Infinity Cat. Share it.

• The portal is the marquee too. "Welcome to GMICHI.FUN !!!" is now THE $MICHI ARCADE in the same pixel face as the card, so the page a shared link opens looks like the preview that got you there.
• Every game's card is on the same stage - its own michi in the gold coin, its name in lights - and its title is finally bold; the bold face had been rendering at regular weight since the cards were first drawn.
• A game above the fold on your phone. The $MICHI band used to fill the first screen; the contract address and the risk notice now fold behind a toggle, and the first Play button is on screen.
• The BETA badges are gone. Twenty-two portal cards and two title screens wore one since the 2026-08-17 merge. Every game has since been audited line by line, fixed, and covered by browser tests; the badges were saying "unfinished" about games that are not.
• Michi Match's icon is a cat with a diamond, not a white flash - the video icons rest on a proper frame and play when you hover.
• The background loads about twelve times lighter. The collage tiles read 240px thumbnails instead of the full photos.

Two runs used to show you the whole game. Every draft was "pick the biggest number", because nothing a card did related to anything another card did.

• Twenty-two cards, up from eleven - and seventeen different things they do. Meowsashi finishes wounded michi, Michijiro swings twice, Michi M.D. patches up the squad, Meowvatar draws fire off your fragile ones, and Errror Michi saps whatever it touches.
• Four tribes, and that is the whole point. Every michi is Tower, Blade, Divine or Chaos. Two of a tribe buffs all of them and four buffs them properly - so the worse statline is often the right pick, and a draft is finally a decision. The chips under each squad show what is live and what you are one michi short of.
• Catnip, and somewhere to spend it. Winning pays. Between rounds you can train a michi, feed one, rehome one you regret, or reroll a draft you do not like. Losing a round pays a little too, so a bad round is not a dead end you cannot shop your way out of.
• Relics off every boss. Beat one and pick from three permanent run modifiers - a fourth card in every draft, tribe bonuses that need one fewer michi, two free wipes, and five more.
• Four different bosses instead of one Rival with bigger numbers, and from round three the opponent drafts to a tribe of its own, so you are fighting a build rather than a bag of cards.
• A speed toggle, because a nine-a-side brawl at one action every 520ms is a long watch.

The bones were right and there was nothing to do with them. Five flat click multipliers, all bought inside an hour, and then a number that went up on its own.

• A golden michi wanders across the screen every couple of minutes and disappears after thirteen seconds. Catch it for a Lucky Find, a Frenzy that multiplies everything by seven, a Click Storm worth fifty taps a tap, or a Catnip Feast. It never turns up in a background tab, so you cannot miss them all while doing something else.
• Every miner can be upgraded four times, at ten, twenty-five, fifty and a hundred owned - each one doubling that miner alone. Deepening a stack is now worth as much as moving on from it.
• Eighteen badges, each worth a permanent +2% to everything, and they survive a prestige - so the second run is genuinely not the first run again. If you have been idling for a while, they are waiting for you already filled in.
• Your save survives. The version bumped and nothing was thrown away.

Past wave four the board never changed again - four rows, seven columns, one hit each, forever. Only the march speed went up.

• Four kinds of rugpuller. Brutes take four hits, splitters leave two more behind when they die, and darters break formation and dive at you. The ring around each one tells you which is which.
• Five formations that rotate by wave - Block, Arrow, Wings, Comb and Pincer - and enemies that get tougher as the waves climb rather than just faster.
• Two more powerups: rapid fire, and a piercing round that goes through a whole column. All four now show a live timer, where three of them used to be invisible.

The Sniper, Ninja, Laser, Savage, Giga and MAGA towers all advertised an ability. None of them had one. Every one was a plain single-target shooter with a bigger number and a different photo - including the thousand-coin MAGA Tower promising five shots, chain lightning, piercing and splash.

• Sniper shoots whoever is furthest along the path instead of whoever is nearest - the one about to cost you a life.
• Ninja fires two bolts and crits one in five. Giga fires three that chain to three more, each jump weaker than the last.
• Laser pierces through three enemies. Savage actually splashes. MAGA does all of it at once, which is what it was charging for.
• Each tower now says what it does on its own button, rather than only in a tooltip you cannot hover on a phone.

Michi Match, Michi Memory, Saint Michi, Super Michi Runner, Michi Trivia, Michi Puzzle and Michi Tower Defense all predate the shared arcade layer and each made its own noise. Four of them had no way to turn it off at all, and none of them knew you had muted a different game a minute earlier.

They all carry the same mute chip now, in the corner beside the leaderboard button, and it is the same switch as the one in the other twenty-four games. Mute anywhere, and the whole site stays quiet.

Catching a michi was one hidden coin flip behind a timing ring, and the only thing you could ever spend was a treat. There is a game around it now.

• The ball wobbles. A throw lands, drops and shakes - once for each check it passes - before it locks or bursts open. The odds have not changed at all; you can just watch them happen, and a three-shake break-free is a very different feeling from a line of text.
• Michicoins, and somewhere to spend them. Catches pay by rarity, michis you already own drop coins on their way past, and Prof. Muski's supply depot sells treats, balls, a Catnip Lure and a Michidar that guarantees your next search turns up something you don't own yet.
• Four balls instead of one. Supurr Balls and Ultra Meowballs buy you +16% and +32% on a catch, and Master Michiballs - which never miss - arrive as milestone rewards at 20, 40 and 55 michis. The plain Michiball is still free and unlimited, so you can never get stuck.
• Golden michis. Roughly one encounter in forty-five comes up gold. Worth five times the coins, harder to hold on to, and tracked separately in the dex.
• A michi of the day. The same one for everybody, every day. It turns up far more often than its rarity should allow and pays triple.
• HP, Attack and Defense finally do something. They have been printed on all sixty-one michis since day one and read by nothing. Attack now sets how fast the ring closes, Defense narrows the window you have to hit, and HP makes it shake out of the ball more easily - so a Legendary genuinely plays differently from a Common.
• Catch streaks pay a bonus for every catch in a row where nothing bolts, and the odds for the throw you are about to make are written on screen with whichever ball and treat you have chosen.
• A searchable Michidex. Sixty-one slots, so: a name search, three sort orders, and sighting counts on everything you own.
• Old save files keep every michi you had caught, and open with a starting float of coins and a couple of Supurr Balls rather than an empty wallet and a shop you cannot use.

Every jump used to be the same jump - one press committed Michi to a 338px arc and one and three-quarter seconds in the air, whether you needed the height or not. That, and a score nobody could see, were the two things holding the runner back.

The jump answers to you now

• Hold to go higher, tap for a hop. Releasing early clips the arc short, so a quick tap is a low hop that clears an enemy and a held press is the full-height jump you need for a tall platform. Works on a phone too - lifting your finger cuts the jump the same way.
• Fast double jumps were being eaten. Jump was throttled to one press per 200ms to stop a held key repeating, which also swallowed any genuine second press inside that window - exactly the quick tap-tap a double jump wants. It tracks the held key itself now, so the second press always lands.
• Press slightly too early and it still counts. A jump pressed just before you touch down is remembered and fires on landing instead of vanishing.

A score you can actually see

• Points are on the HUD. Stomping a bouncer has always paid 50 points - into a variable with no display anywhere. Coins, stomps and star-power defeats all score now, and you can watch it climb.
• Combo multiplier. Chain coins and defeats without taking a hit and the multiplier climbs to 8x. Getting hit drops it. It is the reason to go after a coin line or a star-powered enemy rather than just surviving - distance still decides the leaderboard, so a greedy run costs you nothing but the chain.
• Your best is on the menu and the game over screen, along with the run's metres, coins and points - so there is a number to beat before you start, not only after you finish.

Two new pickups, and a bird

• Star power. A rare pickup on the platforms makes Michi briefly invincible - and turns the tables: touch a Spiny, Bouncer, Flyer or Bird while it's active and it's the one that goes down, for a score bonus, instead of costing you a life.
• Coin magnet. The other pickup pulls every nearby coin toward you for a few seconds, so a lucky grab near a coin cluster is worth chasing instead of skipping past.
• A second flyer, with a different threat. Birds hold a fixed sine-wave path instead of hunting you down the way Flyers do - easier to read on their own, and a genuine hazard once a couple show up together. The constants for them had been sitting in the code unused since the game shipped.
• The game stopped getting harder after three minutes. Enemy rate, fire pits and platform gaps all finished scaling at 2,500m, but the speed did not top out until 12,500m - so most of a long run was a flat difficulty with a barely perceptible creep. The speed now peaks in the same half of the run as everything else.
• Bouncers and Flyers were never cleared between runs, so a leftover enemy from a game you already lost could carry into the next one. Restart, Main Menu and Start Game all reset the full enemy roster now.

Every card on the portal shows who currently holds that game. Finding out you are "anon" there and then having to go to another page to fix it was the long way round.

• Your leaderboard name is on the front page. It sits in the band under the heading, next to the michi of the day. Click Change, type, press Enter. It is the same name the boards use, so renaming here renames you on every board you are on - and the #1 rows on the cards update straight away if one of them is yours. Still stored in this browser only; there is no account.
• The top of the portal took half the screen. On a desktop the first game card started 500px down - 53% of the window gone before a single game. On a phone it was 703px of a 780px screen, which is 90%. The two bands laid themselves out for a phone by putting every single item on its own row; they use two columns now, the greeting is smaller, and the two subtitle lines that said one thing are one line. First card: 413px on a desktop and 553px on a phone, so you land on two full rows of games instead of a heading.

Sixty-one michis to catch and, until now, one button to catch them with. The catching is a proper loop now.

• A michi that breaks free stays put. You used to get one throw, and a miss sent you back to the search button - which made the timing ring a coin flip you could not follow up on. Now it shakes the ball off and it is still standing there. Throw again. But it gets jumpier every time, and the screen tells you exactly how likely it is to bolt on the next miss.
• Treats do something. Every michi has always had a favourite food listed in its Michidex entry, and there has never been any way to give it one. You find treats while searching, michis you already own drop one and wander off, and handing over the right one is a big swing in your favour - and calms the michi down so it stops trying to run.
• Rarity is visible. A Legendary and a Common looked identical in an encounter and in the collection. Wild michis now show their rarity when they appear, the Michidex colours every slot by tier with a caught-so-far count per rarity, and there is a "Missing only" filter for the last stubborn few.
• The four locations are actually different. The Cardboard Fort had the best encounter rate and every rarity, so there was no reason to stand anywhere else. Each place now has its own mix - drawn on its card before you go - and its own treat. The Back Alley is slow going with far and away the best legendary odds; the Living Room is busy and safe.
• The Trainer screen has something on it. A rank, a progress bar per rarity, your treat bag, and the rival you named in the intro and then never heard from again. Fill all sixty-one and Professor Muski has something to say about it.
• Searching is twice as quick, the michi's photo is nearly twice the size on a desktop, the thrown michiball is visible instead of being clipped away before it arrives, Space works instead of a click, and there is a sound toggle - every click used to fire the same beep with no way to turn it off.
• Michi Puzzle put a horizontal scrollbar on every screen: the preview thumbnail hung off the right edge on a desktop, and on a phone the board was inflated ten per cent wider than the window while the puzzle inside it was shrunk fifteen per cent. Both gone - and the phone board is bigger than it was.

A pass over every game looking for text too small to read, colours too close to tell apart, and controls that did not do what they promised.

• Michewled's six tiles were six photos of the same cat on the same floor, which made a match-3 a staring contest. Each type now wears a colour ring, so the board reads at a glance.
• Simeown Says dimmed its four pads so far that they came out as four near-identical browns. They are four colours again - which matters rather a lot in a game about remembering which one lit up.
• Meowni Golf would not let you hit the ball hard. Every tee sits near the bottom edge and a full swing needed more room to drag back than the green had, so a straight shot at the cup capped out under half power. You can pull back off the bottom of the board now, and full power is reachable on every hole.
• Meowney Printer's shop ran each item's description into its price on one line. Name, blurb and cost are three lines now, and the not-yet-affordable rows are legible instead of ghosted.
• Michi Tower Defense was cutting its own HUD off on a phone - "Lives: ... Money: $18(" - and shortening every button to "DONE PL...". The bar wraps instead of truncating and the buttons show their full labels.
• Michris's landing preview was nearly invisible against the well, Pac-Michi gave you a white ring so you can find yourself among the rugpullers, and Typing of the Michi no longer slides words in half-hidden behind the edge of the track.
• Small type got bigger across all thirty-one games - the score and lives labels above every board, the rules line under it, the leaderboard, the footer, and the card text in Michi: The Cathering.

The front page made you scroll past a lot of nothing to reach the games. It does not any more.

• The game grid now uses the width your screen actually has. It was locked to four columns on every desktop, so a wide monitor drew the same four narrow cards as a small laptop and stacked them into eight rows. It is six across on a desktop, four or five on a tablet and three on a phone.
• Everything above the grid got tighter: the page no longer leaves a gap the size of a second navbar under the real one, and the $michi band fits on one line instead of three.
• Michi's Magical Card Game had two screens of rules and token links pinned open under the board. They are still there, behind a How to play toggle.
• The upshot: the front page is about a fifth shorter on a desktop and a quarter shorter on a phone, and the card game is less than half as long as it was.
• The Leaderboards page was drawing its heading and its Portal button underneath the top bar. It is not any more.
• Fixed: the buy links inside Michi's Magical Card Game pointed at the wrong $michi. There are two tokens with that name, and that page had the small one's contract address - the rest of the site always had the right one. It now reads from the same single source as every other page, so the address you copy there is the address in the navbar and on the front page.

The site is named after the cat and the cat has a token, so it may as well say what it costs.

• The navbar carries a live $MICHI price on every page, and tapping it opens the token on DexScreener, where you can swap or read the chart.
• The front page has a proper band for it: price, 24-hour move, market cap, the full Solana contract address with a one-tap Copy button, and links to buy or to open the chart.
• The price comes from DexScreener and is read from the deepest liquidity pool, so it is the number that actually reflects the market rather than whatever a thin pair happens to be printing.
• If the price feed is down, blocked or slow, nothing else changes - the contract address, the buy links and all thirty-one games work exactly as before. The games never wait on it.

Always check the contract address against an official michi channel before you buy, and remember that memecoins are volatile and you can lose everything you put in. Nothing on this site is financial advice.

Until now a high score was yours and nobody else's - a number in your own browser that vanished if you cleared it. Every game on the site now posts to a global leaderboard: real scores from real people, standing until somebody beats them.

Where to find them

• The new Leaderboards page lists every game and who is holding it, all on one screen.
• Each game shows its own top ten - on the game-over card for most, and behind the trophy button in the corner for the nine oldest.
• The portal cards now show the current champion under your own best.
• Your row is highlighted wherever it appears, so you can see where you landed without hunting for your name.

Pick a name

There is no sign-up and no password. Type a name once - on the leaderboards page or on any board in a game - and it follows your scores everywhere. Change it whenever you like; your existing entries change with it. Leave it alone and you appear as anon, which is a perfectly good way to hold first place.

The nine originals joined in

Whack-a-Michi, Michi Match, Michi Puzzle, Super Michi Runner, Michidex Adventure, Michi Tower Defense, Saint Michi, Michi's Magical Card Game and Who Wants to be a Michillionaire? never kept score anywhere. They do now - distance for the runner, waves survived for tower defense, michis collected for Michidex.

If the boards are down

Nothing stops. Every game still records your personal best on your own device, and a run that could not be sent is uploaded next time you open the site.

Every board on this site was built to a fixed pixel size that only ever asked how wide your screen was. On a laptop that meant a small game marooned in the middle of a mostly empty window. The boards now measure the room that is actually free - height as well as width - and grow into it.

Boards that use the window

• Pac-Michi, Michiconda, Brick-a-Michi, Space Inmeowders, Bubble Meowble, Tower of Meowbel, Meow Machine, Meowni Golf, Liquidity Pool and Michi to the Moon all scale up on a desktop - Pac-Michi's maze is over half again as wide as it was.
• Crate-a-Michi, Four in a Paw, Rugsweeper, Odd Michi Out, Michivolution, Simeown Says, Michordle, Michris and Michewled get bigger tiles instead of a bigger margin.
• Michitaire's cards are half again as large, so the pips are readable without leaning in.

Phones are unchanged on purpose

• Height can only ever make a board bigger. On a phone, where there is less height than the board wants, it stays the size it was and the page scrolls - which beats shrinking a game to dodge a scrollbar nobody minds.
• Boards re-fit when you rotate the phone or resize the window.

There was nowhere on this site to find Michi on X, and the developer credit on the portal was plain text you could not click. Both fixed, along with the bar they belong in.

A real navigation bar

• The bar now has the gmichi.fun mark on the left (with a different michi every time you load a page), the links in the middle, and X and Telegram buttons on the right.
• On a phone it collapses into a menu button - the socials stay in the bar, because that is the bit you actually want to tap.
• Whichever page you are on is highlighted, so you can tell.

Socials, at last

• X and Telegram in the bar; a footer on every page with those two plus the official site, the meme archive and the merch store.
• game dev: @lil_runnr is now a link to the actual X account, on the portal and inside Super Michi Runner and Michi Tower Defense.

One dead link, removed

• The "Official Site" link had been sending people to michisolana.org, which now redirects to a business that has nothing to do with Michi. It points at michi.meme instead. It was wrong on five pages at once, which is why all of the site's links now live in one file rather than being copied into every page.

Mostly invisible work this time - the sort that only shows up when you try to share a game with someone or play on a phone.

Sharing a game actually looks like something now

• Every game has its own preview card, so pasting a link into a chat, a group or a post shows the game's name, what it is, and the michi that belongs to it - instead of a bare address.
• Search engines get the same treatment: every game now describes itself properly, so the arcade is findable a game at a time rather than only through the front door.

Add it to your home screen

• gmichi.fun can be installed like an app on a phone - it gets a michi icon and opens without the browser chrome in the way.

Michi Tower Defense: the Research Lab is back, and it works

• The whole upgrade menu was missing. There is now a Research button beside Begin Wave: twelve upgrades across towers, economy and special, filtered by category, closed with Escape.
• It has a currency now. Research points used to be paid out for clearing all one hundred waves and nothing else, so in practice nobody ever earned any. Every wave you clear pays research, and a wave that costs you no lives pays extra - your first upgrade lands around wave five. The running total shows on the Research button.
• Every upgrade in the lab now does what it says. Wave bonus, XP boost and tower synergy were on sale and connected to nothing; damage, range, fire rate and critical hits only applied to towers you had already built, so anything placed after a purchase came out at base stats. All fixed.
• Armored enemies are properly armored - the armor value was being read as a hundredth of itself, so armored types and bosses were taking full damage and the armor-piercing upgrade had nothing to pierce. They are tougher now, and there are upgrades that answer them.
• Starting Money is gone, replaced by Cash Injection - research you can cash straight in for $250 when a wave is about to go badly. The old one could never fire: you earn research during a run, and the run has already started.

Getting around

• The portal can be used entirely from the keyboard, and everything that takes focus now shows it.
• Pinch-to-zoom works on the portal again. The games still lock it, because a stray double-tap zoom mid-run is its own kind of misery.
• Photos and sounds are cached properly now, so coming back to a game is a lot quicker than it was.

Half the arcade was named like a filing cabinet - Michi Snake, Michi Golf, Michi Blaster. The games are sillier than that, so the names are too now. Nothing about how any of them plays has changed.

• Each renamed game moved to a matching address, so michiconda.html is where the snake lives now. If you had one of these bookmarked under its old address, re-bookmark it from the portal - the old links no longer go anywhere.
• The high scores on these sixteen start from zero again. Scores are saved in your own browser under the game's name, and renaming the game renamed the drawer they were in. The other fifteen games kept theirs.

The homepage was quietly one of the heaviest pages on the site - hundreds of background tiles each running their own animation, and every game card re-blurring the scenery behind it, on every frame. If the portal felt choppy, this one is for you.

• The photo-collage background keeps its crossfading cats but no longer animates every tile every frame - scrolling the portal should feel dramatically smoother, especially on phones.
• The glow that follows your cursor now rides the graphics card instead of repainting the whole screen as you move the mouse.
• The Michi Match card's video icon shrank from 4.5 MB to 56 KB with no visible difference.
• If your device asks for reduced motion, the portal now respects it: still collage, no pulsing badges.

Every one of the thirty-one games was audited line by line, played against phone-sized screens, and fixed. If a game felt broken before, it is worth another try now.

Mobile, everywhere

• Boards and grids now shrink to fit small phones - Rugsweeper's Hard board, the Michi Puzzle 5×5, and Michordle's letter row no longer spill off a 360px screen with their edges unreachable.
• Scrolling no longer fights the games: swipes move the game, page scrolls stay page scrolls, and long-press flags in Rugsweeper stopped double-firing on Android.
• Michris grew a touch HOLD button, Michi Puzzle's piece tray can finally be scrolled by touch, and the runner's JUMP button no longer eats your double-jump.
• Modals and game-over screens scroll instead of clipping their buttons on short and landscape screens.

Bug fixes

• Tower Defense ran up to three game loops at once (everything moved 2-3× too fast) and crashed on "Play Again". Both fixed, and the volume slider actually changes the volume now.
• Saint Michi's pipes were nearly invisible, and rounds used to start behind the loading screen - the first life could be gone before you saw the game. Fixed, along with silent audio in Chrome.
• Michi's Magical Card Game's sound toggle did nothing and every button fired twice. One clean initialization now.
• Michi Puzzle could declare victory on an unsolved board, and Zen mode - the default - had no sounds at all.
• Michewled's level system never advanced and swapped tiles vanished mid-animation. Levels, time bonuses and bonus tiles all work now.
• Michillionaire's reset button wiped all progress without asking. It asks.
• Whack-a-Michi could stack several games at once if you mashed Start during the countdown, and one hole could go permanently quiet after a lucky whack.
• Pac-Michi no longer takes two lives for one ghost, and restart quirks across a dozen arcade games (double game loops, double starts, stray timers) were cleaned up.
• The portal's daily pick now draws from all 31 games, and the michi of the day walks the full 59-photo pool.

Under the hood

• The site now makes zero external requests - no CDN scripts, no hotlinked sounds, no third-party fonts. Everything is served from gmichi.fun itself.
• More michi in rotation: games that used to pin one photo per visit now roll a fresh cat every run.

• All twenty-two arcade games got their own hand-drawn icon badges on the portal, layered over a michi photo picked to suit each game.
• The particles background library was replaced with a small in-house version - one less external dependency, same sparkle.
• Michordle's judge michi now reacts to every guess, and Bubble Pop keys a michi to each bubble colour.

The arcade grew from nine games to thirty-one in four waves, all built on a shared scoring layer with personal bests on every portal card, a daily pick, and the michi of the day.

• The whole site was brought into version control and its infrastructure under Terraform - the live bucket had been the only copy of the source.
• Fixed 58 broken image references that had been quietly 403ing in production for the site's entire life.
• HTTP now redirects to HTTPS, and missing pages get a proper 404 page instead of an XML error.