Projects

Everything that isn't Avoria

Avoria gets most of my time. These got the rest. Every one of them is live, and if something breaks, the person who reads your email is the person who fixes it.

Daily puzzle

Beamzag

Place mirrors so the laser lights every gem and ends in the socket. A new board turns up every day, and every board has exactly one answer. It plays on Reddit too, at r/beamzag.

Free to play. An optional Supporter pack is C$4.

Play today's board
beamzag.app
Beamzag on a phone: puzzle #3 with its laser crossing the board and four mirrors waiting in the tray
Try a small one2 mirrors left
Today's board

Video tool

Slideback

Slideback opens the old Photo Story 3 and Movie Maker projects nothing else will, right in your browser, and saves them as MP4s with the narration, music, captions and pan and zoom intact. Nothing gets uploaded.

Free to preview. US$19 once to save the MP4.

Open Slideback
slideback.app
Slideback's home page: a drop zone for a .wp3 or .wlmp file beside a photo from a 1972 slideshow
Drag or flick the printsPublic-domain photos from Slideback's pages
A family at the edge of a lake under pine trees
A family eating dinner in their dugout home
Campers waxing their car beside a river
A crowded lake beach on the Fourth of July

Lake Tahoe, California, 1972. Belinda Rain for DOCUMERICA.

Database and Godot addon

FrameDB

Which Steam games run on the Steam Frame without a PC, straight from Valve's Verified and Playable lists, with room for players' own reports. If you make games in Godot, the Frame-Ready Kit sets a project up for the Frame in one go.

FrameDB is free. The kit is US$14 once.

Open FrameDB See the kit
framedb.pages.dev
FrameDB's home page: counts of Verified, Playable and Unsupported games above a filterable table
Steam Frame standalone, right nowframedb.pages.dev/api
Verified
Playable
Unsupported

Fetching the live counts from FrameDB.

Forms tool

Formhaul

For anyone left holding a library of old InfoPath forms. Drop in the template and the filled forms, see each one laid out the way its view drew it, and save the lot as PDFs plus one spreadsheet. It all runs in the browser tab.

Reading forms and a three-form preview are free. The US$149 licence for a whole organisation isn't on sale yet.

Try the sample
formhaul.pages.dev
Formhaul's home page: an InfoPath form's XML beside the PDF it becomes

Browser extensions

Wager Extensions

Playlist Exporter for YouTube saves any playlist as a spreadsheet, and it's on the Chrome Web Store now. The Firefox version is in review. A bookmarks exporter and a cookie cleaner are built and waiting their turn for store review.

Free, with a one-time Pro upgrade from US$7.

Add it to Chrome All three
wager-extensions.pages.dev
The Wager Extensions site: the playlist exporter's free and Pro columns side by side
playlist.csvPlaylist Exporter, free columns

The CSV the exporter writes for a playlist holding the Slideback demo from this studio's channel:

The same row as a spreadsheet
#TitleChannelDuration
1How to open a Photo Story 3 project (.wp3) in 2026 and save it as MP4Plaug Studios0:38

And the big one

Avoria, a top-down action roguelite about the last Warden of a kingdom with something enormous asleep under it. It's headed to Steam.

Meet Avoria