MaxoLand: Escape Your Telco. Two new Maxo hires outside the office, a pixel city, and Lord Buffer on the mountain

MaxoLandEscape Your Telco

POV: Another telco outage. Dropped calls, endless hold music, and your provider is experiencing technical difficulties. Again.

There's got to be a better way. Your first day at Maxo just got interesting. A pixel-art adventure you play right in your browser.

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  • No download
  • Keyboard or touch
  • Chapter 1 · about 5–8 min
  • Autosaves
Gameplay

See it in action

Real screens from Chapter 1: The Outage. No mock-ups.

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Your trusty sidekick / MaxoTab

Every hero needs a MaxoTab.

Your missions, your tools, your lifeline to the office. Just try not to break it.

  • Switch the Softphone on, then wait for the boss to ring.
  • Call Alex or Patch from Contacts.
  • Punch 6296 into the keypad.
  • Flip through Work Orders, History and Chapters. Click, or focus it and use ←→↑↓E.
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Chapter 1 · The Outage

Congrats.
You're hired.

It's your first shift as a Maxo technician. Maxo Town's old telco has dropped the lot, so the lights, the phones and the pie hotline are all down, and it looks like someone needs MaxoTel.

Fix the town, keep Patch from talking your ear off, and find out who's been putting everyone on hold.

AlexYour bossSwitchboard is at the back of the Exchange. Turn it off and on again. Yes, really.
PatchOverenthusiastic support robotTechnically impressive, actually.
TravIT. Undefeated at arm wrestlingNot bad. Let's see how you handle a real technical problem.
Larry the LaggerBlocking the Exchange gateYour call is in a queue. Position: forever.
Lord Buffer

A royal router with a monocle and four antennas. Keeping the whole world on hold.

Incoming call “…This is Lord Buffer. I am calling to inform you that this is NOT over.” “Also, about your car’s extended warran—” *click*
MaxoPad · Chapters

Your first day is just the start

Chapter 1 is out now. Two more jobs are already sitting on your MaxoPad. Locked. For now.

MAXOPADTECH #0042 · CHAPTERSONLINE
CHAPTER 1
The Outage
OUT NOW
Maxo Town's old telco has dropped the lot. Get the lights, the phones and the pie hotline back.
PLAY NOW ▶
LOCKED
CHAPTER 2
The Call Centre of Doom
LOCKED — COMING SOON
An endless queue. A thousand ringing phones. One very unfortunate technician.
Somewhere across town, every phone is ringing at once and nobody is picking up. Alex has "a small favour" to ask.
LOCKED
CHAPTER 3
Lord Buffer's Lair
LOCKED — COMING SOON
Deep inside the network, something is keeping the whole world on hold.
A data-centre fortress, a royal router, and a crown that is definitely regulation size.
Your MaxoPad · Work orders

Today's jobs

What you'll actually be doing on your first day. Straight from the job list.

  1. MX-1003Street lines

    Fix the junction nodes

    Three sparking green cabinets, three rounds of Signal Sync, and Larry interrupting every single time. Each fix lights up a district.

    Reward: the town theme gets a new instrument
  2. MX-1003Street lines

    Rewire Anne's patch panel

    A cable-matching puzzle is all that stands between Anne and her pie shop phones.

    Reward: pies. Probably.
  3. MX-1007Side job
    Arm wrestling Trav

    Arm-wrestle IT for help

    Grip, type ETHERNET with the arrow keys, then nail the timing push. Beat Trav and he'll charge your Reboot.

    Reward: wider repair zones
  4. MX-1004Pest control

    Out-lag Larry the Lagger

    Time your attacks on the ring, block on the "!", fire off a Reboot, or eat one of Anne's Famous Pies. Or just chat. Nobody ever asks Larry how he's going.

    Watch for: Spinning Wheel of Doom
  5. MX-1005Exchange

    Reboot the switchboard

    Three stages, one big switch at the back of the Exchange. Turn it off and on again.

    Reward: Maxo Town back online
  6. MX-1006Side job

    Recover 8 lost packets

    Scattered all over town: a cat video (4% loaded), a meme from 2009 and the Wi-Fi password. It's IDONTKNOWASKGAZZA.

    Optional. Very satisfying.
Made by Maxo

Power-ups, based on a true story

MaxoLand is made by Maxo Telecommunications, who help real businesses escape their telco frustrations, so nobody has to fight a lag monster. What Maxo actually does

MaxoPad SoftphoneIn real life: Maxo business phones
Exchange rebootIn real life: Maxo business internet

Ready to clock in?

Lord Buffer is waiting. Chapter 1 takes about 5 to 8 minutes, and your progress saves as you go.

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  • WASD↑↓←→ Move
  • ESpace Talk / use
  • Tab MaxoPad
  • Esc Menu
  • On a phone: on-screen joystick and A/B buttons
LORD BUFFER

I am a ROYAL router. Observe the crown.