PocketSkills is a classic pixel MMORPG: a tile world you walk step by step, where you become what you train. Fish, mine and chop, hunt monsters across five regions, age your gear up to +20 and fight other players under the skull system. It runs in the browser and installs as an app on phones and computers.

The world

The Portal Hall links them all. Every map has floors: stairs, ladders, holes, towers and mines. Day turns to night for everyone at the same time, lamps and torches light up, the weather changes, and every area has its own music.

Gathering

• Fishing: cast, wait for the bite, then a reel duel — keep the fish inside your window while the current pulls. Rods with bait, or nets for the shallows.
• Mining & woodcutting: strike while the ore or the log is inside the notch; harder rocks and older trees need better timing and better tools.
• Tools: bronze, iron, steel, mithril and dragon pickaxes and hatchets, rods from bamboo to the Mythic Tidecaller; the best one you carry is used by itself.
• Rarity: every catch rolls from common to legendary, and the Dex collects every item in every rarity.

Combat without classes

• Every skill rises with use: sword, axe, club, distance, magic level, shielding and fist fighting. Bows and crossbows need arrows or bolts, wands and staffs need mana.
• Potions & runes on your two quick slots: health, mana and spirit potions; healing, fireball, energy bolt and poison runes.
• Monsters: rats, cave spiders, slimes, skeletons, fire imps, spark wisps, ghosts, scorpions, mummies, ice wolves and yetis. Poison, fire and energy burn over time, and critical hits land now and then.
• Loot bags glow in the colour of their rarest item; drag bodies and bags around, or throw them into the river.
• A server log tells every hit, block, kill, potion and skill advance.

Aging +1 to +20

Bring gold and aging stones (minor to ancient) to Barnaby's forge. Each level adds 6% to the item's power, and the chance falls as you climb: a failure can cost a level, and from +10 the item may break — a Crystal of Restoration mends it. From +8 your weapon and shield glow in your hands for everyone to see.

Open PvP

Attacking an unmarked player gives you a white skull and keeps you out of protection zones for a minute. Unjustified kills lead to the red skull and then the black skull, with deaths that cost experience and items. Fighting back is always fair, and towns are safe zones.

Together

• Parties share the experience and the gold of every kill between the members on screen, with a bonus for each one — an orange ring shows who is with you.
• Guilds are founded for 5,000 gold: up to 20 members, six ranks from leader to recruit, a message of the day, their own chat and a purple banner.
• Friends, private messages and safe trades: up to 8 stacks and gold on each side, both must accept, and nothing moves unless everything is still there.

Town life

• Gideon's bank keeps a 100-slot locker and your gold, and pays a little interest every midnight you are in the world.
• Quests on the notice boards, with a journal that marks each one locked, active or done; boons from PocketSkills VIP by the fountain, kept in your backpack until you use them, for faster training and rarer finds.
• Vivienne restyles your hair and clothes, and petting Krek, the town dog, makes you faster — once a day.
• Rest on a bench or a bed to heal faster, and climb the highscores on every board.

Play anywhere

Install it like an app and it opens even without internet. On phones: a stick or arrows, an action button and two quick slots you can move and resize. Low, medium and high graphics, four zoom levels, and five languages: English, Português, Español, 中文 and Русский.