A kysz! (Polish for “shoo!”) is a joke page. It shows a monospace countdown to a far-away date and a line of news headlines that scramble into each other. Press Space and it turns into an arcade game where the words of the headlines are the enemies.
Open the game full screen → Click inside the frame first so it gets the keyboard.
How to play#
Space starts the game. On a phone, tap a mode.
- Shooter. The words of a headline fall from the top, each at its own speed. Move with the arrows and shoot with Space. Clear a headline and the next one comes faster. Three words past your line end the game. Your survival time is the score.
- Arkanoid. The words are the bricks. Bounce the ball with the paddle and break them. A cleared wall brings a faster one. You lose a life when the ball falls past the paddle.
Sometimes a destroyed word drops a flickering “egg”. Catch it to see what it is: an extra life, a shield against one hit, slow motion, a triple shot (or extra balls) or a wider shot (or paddle).
On a touch screen a control strip appears under the board. Drag along it to move, tap ● to shoot, tap ✕ to leave.
How it is built#
I wrote it in TypeScript with Phaser 3. The countdown and ticker load first. Phaser and the game load only when you start playing, so the joke page stays light. Keyboard and touch share one input layer, so every mode works on a phone.
On its original server, a small PHP backend collects fresh headlines from several Polish news sites every 12 hours and keeps a global record. The copy on this site is static. The headlines come from a saved list of about 11,000, and the record stays in your browser.