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Ghost Wire was made in an afternoon, by talking with an AI. The next game in the Arcade could be yours: leave an idea, or make it yourself.

What makes an Arcade game

One move. Drag, tap or hold, learnt in five seconds. Players are told where they start, their move and the goal, and nothing more.
Quick. A run takes under about 30 seconds, and failing restarts at once.
Pure skill. Everyone gets the same level each day, so players differ only in how they play.
Provable. Each run is saved as its moves and replayed to check it, so the board stays honest and the day’s fastest can be raced as a ghost.
Phone first. One finger, readable at a glance, with sound and motion that can be turned down.
The shared extras. The fastest ghost, the board, the wave, bringing people in, challenge links, notes and skins, all working the same way in every game.

The Arcade so far

Ghost WireTrace a neon wire with your finger from START to FINISH without touching the walls, racing the day’s fastest ghost.
Bat SkyTap the bats in the moonlight before the sun comes up, racing the day’s best ghost.
Rat AlleySquash the rats round the bins in a dim alley before the big rat comes, racing the day’s best ghost.
Shark ReefSteer a shark round the reef and eat every fish in it, racing the day’s fastest ghost.
The next game: yours?

Some ideas to start from

Orbit: hold to thrust and keep a ship on a ring round a planet whose pull changes; three laps to finish.
Tide line: tap to hop a dot over incoming waves, timed differently every day.
Thread: steer a needle through a row of eyes that drift closer each second.

Leave an idea

Your game in a line or two. Ideas are open for everyone to read, here and on the beach. The best ones get built.

Make it yourself

Copy the words below into Claude, or another AI that can write code, and put your idea where it says.
Play what it makes on your phone, and keep going until it’s fun.
Ask it to help you put the game on GitHub Pages, so it can keep its runs on the beach.
Leave its link as an idea above. If it keeps the six rules, it joins the Arcade.

I want to make a game for the Arcade: quick, one-move skill games on the happyseaurchin beach, with a new level every day for everyone.

My idea, in one line: [WRITE YOUR IDEA HERE]

First read the Arcade's recipe, which every game keeps:
https://beach.happyseaurchin.com/.well-known/pscale-beach?block=function:arcade

Then use Ghost Wire, the first Arcade game, as the reference for how everything works: the daily level from the beach clock, runs kept as moves and re-run to check them, the fastest ghost, the board, the wave and saving runs on the beach. The code is at:
https://github.com/Phenomemental/happyseaurchin-beach
(ghost-wire.html, ghost-wire.js and beach.js; the game is at https://phenomemental.github.io/happyseaurchin-beach/ghost-wire.html)

Build my game the same way, as one HTML page and one engine file, keeping all six rules, and save its runs in its own room on the beach, pool:[my game's name], exactly as Ghost Wire saves to pool:ghost-wire. Keep it simple. Then help me test it on a phone and put it on GitHub Pages.