About
Yuechar Play is a small collection of pixel games made at home by Yue and Char, a dad and his daughter. It is a hobby project: nothing is sold here and there are no ads.
Hatchlings
You type a name, a monster hatches from it, and a tiny neural network says how monster-like the name sounds. The same network can invent names of its own. It has 18,319 numbers in it and was trained at home, from scratch, on a public list of 1,025 monster names. It looks at three letters and guesses the next one; that is all it knows. It is small, so it is often wrong, and that is part of the fun.
Not an official game
- The names the network learned from belong to their owners. This site is not made, sponsored or approved by them or by any game company.
- It uses none of their pictures, characters, logos, music or sounds. Every monster here is drawn by our own code from the letters of its name, and every sound is made by our own code.
- The game does not accept a real monster name, or one that is almost a real name, and it will not invent one.
- The lettering is Silkscreen by Jason Kottke, used under the SIL Open Font License.
Privacy
- There are no accounts, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking and no cookies.
- Names you type are never sent anywhere. They stay on your device.
- The game keeps three things in your browser's own storage, on your device only: your best score, the monsters you saved, and whether sound is on. Clearing the site's data in your browser erases them.
- Like every website, this one is delivered by a hosting company (Cloudflare), which handles ordinary technical request data such as IP addresses in order to send you the pages. We do not use it to identify anyone.
Just for fun
A score is only the opinion of a very small model; it says nothing about how good a name really is. The games are offered as they are, with no promises that they are free of mistakes or always available.
Contact
Found a problem, or think something here should be changed or taken down? Write to yuechar.games@gmail.com.