Guide

What this is

EnneadTab Arcade is a small desktop arcade for the moments Revit makes you wait. When a sync to central or a model open drags on, it’s somewhere to put the dead minute instead of staring at a progress bar. Three games ship today; scores are kept on your machine. You can also open it any time from the EnneadTab menu — it doesn’t have to wait for a wait.

The three games

Duck Dash. The EnneaDuck flaps through a colonnade of columns; you steer it through the gaps. One control — press space or click to flap, and gravity does the rest. Your score is the number of column gaps you clear before you clip one.

Floor Stacker. A slab slides back and forth across the top of the tower; click to drop it. Anything hanging past the slab beneath gets sliced off, so the tower narrows every time you’re sloppy. Score is the height you reach before your slab misses the stack entirely.

Redline Rush. Redline scribbles fall onto a drawing sheet; click each one to swat it before it settles. Let five pile up and the sheet is buried — game over. Score is how many blots you clear before that fifth one lands.

The Revit moment

The arcade offers itself only when you’re genuinely waiting. EnneadTab watches for a long Revit wait — a sync-to-central or a document open that passes about a minute — and slides in a quiet prompt: play while you wait? If you’re not waiting, nothing pops. It never interrupts an active task, and it isn’t an ad — it’s a gift for the minute that was already lost.

You’ll be able to turn the prompt off from a setting inside the app. Be warned that the Revit side of this — the part that detects the wait and shows the prompt — is still rolling out; on a machine that hasn’t received it yet, the prompt simply won’t appear and you can open the arcade from the EnneadTab menu instead.

Updates

Updates are download-based, and they’re quiet: when a new version is out, the app tells you and offers it. You click, your browser downloads the new installer, and you run it — the same one-click install as the first time. There’s no separate updater to babysit and no account to sign into. The changelog lists what changed in each release.

Scores & leaderboard

For now, your best run in each game is stored locally, per machine — move to a different PC and you start fresh. An office leaderboard is coming: Duckland, a studio-wide board per game, so a good run counts for something beyond your own screen. When it ships, your scores start posting there. We’re not putting a date on it.

It broke

If a game crashes, the app won’t launch, or an update won’t install, send it to the DesignTech team with a note on what you were doing when it happened. A screenshot helps. It’s early software — telling us is how it gets less early.