Neal Agarwal | |
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 Agarwal in 2023 | |
| Born | 1996 (age 29–30) |
| Education | Virginia Tech (BA) |
| Occupations | Programmer, game designer |
| Website | nealagarwal |
Neal Agarwal (born 1997) is an American programmer and game designer. He is known for his website, neal.fun, which hosts various browser games such as The Password Game and Infinite Craft . Many of his games have parodied internet conventions or served as educational games. [1]
Agarwal grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. He later attended Virginia Tech and graduated with a degree in computer science. [2] [3]
In 2006, at the age of nine, Agarwal created his first website, called Kidcrash, using a WYSIWYG editor, which compiled several of his favorite Adobe Flash games. [2] [4] He then began programming on Scratch and made a "knockoff" of Wipeout at the age of 12. [2] Afterward, he learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. [5]
In high school, Agarwal created a mobile game, called Toast Man. He then created web-based projects on the website Kamogo such as Silicon Valley Idea Generator and Text to Hodor. [2]
In 2017, Agarwal launched his website, neal.fun, after which he began programming and listing his games on it. He worked on several of his first few games, like Spend Bill Gates' Money, as a student at Virginia Tech at the time. [2] His creations had been inspired by his own upbringing with Adobe Flash games on the internet, or what he called the "Weird Web 1.0": "I would always go down these long rabbit holes. It felt like much more of an independent web." [3] [2]
By the time Agarwal graduated from Virginia Tech, he was able to make a full-time living from ad revenue on neal.fun, after which he continued to create more games and commit to neal.fun as a contribution to a possible "Weird Web 2.0." [3] He additionally runs Just For Fun, a website that showcases other instances of "creative coding." [6]
Briefly, Agarwal worked at MSCHF before deciding to focus on neal.fun fully. [2]
| Game | Established | Discontinued |
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| Baby Map | 2017 | present |
| Spend Bill Gates’ Money | ||
| Wiki File | 2017 | |
| Progresses | present | |
| Draw Logos From Memory | ||
| Papers | 2018 | |
| Powerballs | 2018 | |
| Speeding | present | |
| Hurricanes Maps | 2018 | |
| Life Checklistings | present | |
| Draw Your Island | April 2021 | |
| Where Does the Day Go? | June 2018 | present |
| Who Was Alive | August 2018 | |
| Dark Patterns | October 2018 | |
| Grandpa’s Art Show | June 2019 | April 2020 |
| Share this Page | September 2019 | present |
| The Size of Space | ||
| The Deep Sea | November 2019 | |
| Life Stats | February 2020 | |
| Printing Money | ||
| The Auction Game | March 2020 | |
| Universe Forecast | May 2020 | |
| Conquer the World | July 2020 | June 2021 |
| Macaroni Draw | August 2021 | |
| Sell! Sell! Sell! | January 2021 | present |
| 10 Years Ago | February 2021 | January 2024 |
| Ambient Chaos | September 2021 | present |
| Rocks | November 2021 | |
| Let’s Settle This | January 2022 | |
| Earth Reviews | May 2022 | |
| Absurd Trolley Problems | July 2022 | |
| Design the Next iPhone | September 2022 | |
| Days since Incident | October 2022 | |
| Asteroid Launcher | December 2022 | |
| Draw a Perfect Circle | January 2023 | |
| Wonders of Street View | February 2023 | |
| Space Elevator | May 2023 | |
| The Password Game | July 2023 | |
| Internet Artifacts | November 2023 | |
| Infinite Craft | February 2024 | |
| Eyechat | July 2024 | September 2024 |
| Sun vs. Moon | August 2024 | May 2025 |
| Stimulation Clicker | January 2025 | present |
| Internet Roadtrip | May 2025 | |
| I’m Not a Robot | September 2025 | |
| Size of Life | January 2026 | |
| Sandboxels | February 2026 | |
| Constellation Draw | March 2026 |
Neal.fun games | |
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