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Luke asked for these. Seen your home run trot enough times? Tap or click and you're straight back at the plate for the next pitch, with the fireworks still going off over center field.

Let it play out, and your hitter doesn't vanish at home plate anymore. Everyone who scored waits there to cheer them in, then the whole crew jogs into the dugout while your teammates jump up and down. Your swing keeps up with you now too: even a last-second swing gets the bat around in time to crack the coconut.

Your coins, jerseys, best scores, and wins are kept now, in every game, and a long game waits for you right where you left it. Stop Forgotten Island on Day 4 and pick it up tomorrow with your wood, your coconuts, and your Crossbow. Your Footcraft world keeps every block you built, your pup in Dog Adoption remembers you, and Monkey Swing puts you back on the vine you reached.

Signed in, your saves go with your account, so you can start on the computer and finish on the tablet. Every pause screen has a Save button too, and if you don't have an account yet, you can make one right there without leaving your game.

Every new members game is free for everyone for its first three days, account or not. Look for the gold Free badge in the members games: that one's open, so jump in.

And a new account now plays every game on TikiWikiGames free for its whole first day: all the members games, from Forgotten Island to Wild West Brawl Maze. Make one, and see which game you'd play every day.

Every game on TikiWikiGames got a makeover this weekend. Every player, fighter, animal, and monster is a new chunky character with a real face, and every world around them is built out: islands with palm trees, waves that wash up on the sand, volcanoes, jungles, a desert town, a starry night on Forgotten Island, and kelp forests in Ocean Life.

Every game sounds real now too, with cracks, splashes, cheering crowds, and birdsong, and a mute button in the corner. Pick a game you already know and play it again: it will feel brand new.

Coconut Ball has a real ballpark now. Stands packed with fans run down both foul lines, and each team has a dugout: yours with three teammates at the rail, and the Tikis' with two Tikis.

Hit a home run and the crowd jumps, the camera runs the bases with your batter, and then a drone flies a lap around the stands. Your batter swings with both hands on the bat, and a faint ring hints where each pitch will cross.

Every swing counts from the instant you make it, even on a slow phone. The Tikis catch fewer fly balls than before, and you can pause in the middle of a game.

Every game on TikiWikiGames now works on a touch screen. Fighting games have buttons on the screen, 3D games give you one thumb to walk and the other to look around, and every game keeps its buttons and menus in view on a small screen.

So the whole library comes with you: on the couch, on a long car ride, or anywhere else there's a tablet.

Every game's page now says how to play, just under the game. It speaks to whatever you're holding: on a phone or tablet it says what to tap, and on a computer, which keys to press.

Read a few lines and you're in.

Every game now shows the ages it's best for: 4+, 6+, or 10+. On each game's page, a sentence under the title says why.

So grown-ups can see at a glance which games are gentle, which have cartoon battles, and which are best saved for older kids.

Want to know what everyone's playing? The free games and the members library now each put the most-played games first, so the favorites are always easy to find.

Luke asked for it, so now you can curve the ball up and down, not just sideways. A DIPPER flies high and drops onto the target, and a ROCKET SHOT starts low and climbs into the net.

Both earn a 5-coin bonus when they go in, and a trail of dots now follows the ball so you can see every curve.

Tap Full screen on an iPhone and the game now fills the whole screen, with a little wooden bar to bring the page back. Turn your phone on its side for an even bigger game.

Who makes these games? Two brothers and their dad: Thomas, Luke, and Mike. The new About page tells how TikiWikiGames started, and who does what.

Thomas dreams up the characters and the monsters, Luke decides where they live and how tough they are, and Mike turns their ideas into games that run in your browser.