PAC'S ARCADE ▸ PLAY ▸ THE GAME PORTAL
INSERT COIN
This is the door to the arcade's game floor — worlds built on the P.O.K.E. network, where playing and learning are the same button. Your fren tag is your player name in every world, and the certs you earn are your save file.
THE PLATFORM UNDER THE GAMES
WHAT IS P.O.K.E.?
P.O.K.E. is the arcade's game network — community-run worlds that anyone can host, the way anyone can run a nostr relay. No company owns the floor: each world is a cabinet someone plugged in, and they federate together so your name and progress travel with you.
Every world hides real knowledge in the play: locked doors that open when you can answer, treasure that teaches, puzzles pulled from the same material as the classes. Beat the game, earn the cert — same rune, same proof, etched to Bitcoin.
Under the hood it runs on the rails you already know from the arcade: your nostr key is your identity, Matrix rooms carry the chat, and Bitcoin keeps the score that matters. Nothing to install to start — the first worlds run in your browser.
THE FLOOR — CABINET BY CABINET
NOW PLAYING
THE P.O.K.E. MUD
IN THE WORKSHOP
The first cabinet: a text world — rooms, doors, riddles, all words. Old-school like the arcade likes it, and secretly a classroom: the dungeon IS the curriculum. It runs today on the workshop bench; the public door opens when the federation does.
PLAYABLE ON THE ARCADE FLOOR · PUBLIC DOOR ANNOUNCED ON NOSTR
YOUR CABINET HERE
OPEN SLOT
P.O.K.E. worlds are community-run — when node hosting opens, any fren who can keep a small server happy can plug in a cabinet and teach through play. The classes are the on-ramp.
START AT THE CLASSES ▸