Neal Agarwal is an American programmer and game designer. He is known for his website, neal.fun, which hosts various

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like '' The Password Game'' and '' Infinite Craft''. Many of his games have parodied internet conventions or served as

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Early life and education

Agarwal grew up in

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. He later attended

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and graduated with a degree in computer science.

Career

In 2006, at the age of nine, Agarwal created his first website, called Kidcrash, using a

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editor, which compiled several of his favorite

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games. He then began programming on Scratch and made a "knockoff" of ''Wipeout'' at the age of 12. Afterward, he learned

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, CSS, and

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. 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''.

neal.fun

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. 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. Almost all the sites I visited were by solo creators or small teams of people. It felt like much more of an independent web." 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." He additionally runs Just For Fun, a website that showcases other instances of "creative coding." Briefly, Agarwal worked at

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before deciding to focus on neal.fun fully.

Works

* '' The Password Game'' (2023) * '' Infinite Craft'' (2024) * '' Stimulation Clicker'' (January 2025) * Internet Roadtrip (since May 2025) *

References

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