Most browser games could be from anywhere. These four couldn't. They're about swooping magpies, bin chickens, concrete handball courts and Mount Panorama — four things every Australian kid knows and almost nobody else does. All free, all in the browser, nothing to download.
Magpie Swooping Season
Every year from about August to October, Australian magpies nest, and anyone who rides a bike anywhere near one gets swooped. Kids ride to school with cable ties on their helmets and take the long way round certain trees. It is a real, specific, annual Australian ordeal, and Magpie Swooping Season is a game about it.
You're on a bike on the footpath. Magpies come at you from behind. You swerve up and down the path to get out of their line, and when one's diving straight at you and you can't dodge, you ring your bell to scare it off — but the bell needs a moment before you can use it again. Three helmets, and every hit costs one. Your score is how many metres you got, and there's a shared top-ten leaderboard. Play Magpie Swooping Season →
Bin Chicken
The Australian white ibis: enormous, scruffy, disgusting, beloved, universally known as the bin chicken. In Bin Chicken you play as one, waddling around a park from above, robbing food off picnic rugs.
The scoring is the interesting bit — grabbing food quickly one after another builds a combo, so the good players plan a route through the park instead of chasing whatever's nearest. Picnickers shoo you off and off-leash dogs chase you, and the flap dash is how you get out of trouble. Get shooed and it's over. Play Bin Chicken →
Handball
Every Australian primary school has a handball court, and every Australian primary school argues about the same rules. Handball plays it properly against the computer: hit the ball so it bounces once in the other square; two bounces in a square and whoever owns it is out — that's a double; past the back line without bouncing is out. First to five wins.
Aim for the corners. Smashing it straight down the middle just gives it back. Play Handball →
Car Driver — Mount Panorama, Bathurst
Mount Panorama is the circuit at Bathurst, and it's the one every Australian motorsport fan knows corner by corner. Car Driver is ten laps of it, from above, traced out corner by corner from the real circuit. The corners are named on screen as you reach them: out of Hell Corner and up Mountain Straight, through Griffin's Bend, over Forest's Elbow and the Dipper, past McPhillamy Park and Skyline, down the Esses, then the long flat-out run along Conrod Straight, into the Chase and round Murray's Corner.
Three other cars are racing you, and the fuel gauge drains the whole time — faster if you're flat out — so a smooth lap beats a fast messy one. Play Car Driver →
If you want something to play with your mates, there are five online games where one person makes a room and everyone joins with a code. Or have a read of how these get made — it's one kid, writing each game as a single file.
Made by Emmett. Last updated August 2026.