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📖 Origin Story
It started with a dice
Chess is complicated. Intimidating. Gate-kept. A child sits down across from an adult and the game is almost decided before it begins.
Then add one dice. The playing field levels. The child lands a lucky move and took an expert's queen. The room erupted. The game became fun again.
"Anyone can win. Everyone should play."
That dice roll is the founding myth of Better Than HTML — not a rule, not a constraint. A reminder of what games are for. The platform exists because anyone, of any age, should be able to go from playing a game to publishing their own version of it in the same afternoon.
And because in 1984 a game called Elite made a 12-year-old learn BASIC. The open hood is the whole point.