Actual gameplay
Strategy
First 3D game
30–60s sieges
Overwind
The machine is the mistake
Hold to wind the windlass. The ratchet clicks faster, the rope creaks, and the frame starts to lift at the front. Drag while you hold to swing the turntable and set the arc, then let go and a ragdoll goes over the wall, or into it. Wind too far and the rope snaps: the arm flails, the crew scatter, and your lad is dumped three metres in front of the machine, where he stands up and looks at you.
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Runs in your browser · no install · works on phones · needs WebGL
How to play
- 1Hold anywhere to wind. Drag while holding to swing the turntable and set the arc.
- 2Release to fire. More tension throws further, and widens the ellipse of where it might actually land.
- 3Wind into the red and the rope snaps. You are not damaged, you are embarrassed.
- 4Lads who fall short heap up at the foot of the wall. That heap is solid ground, and it is how the next one gets over.
What's in it
- A simulated rig: windlass, rope, weighted arm, A-frame and three crew who are nearby when it goes wrong
- Rope snaps, recoil hops, and a frame that sinks a little deeper into soft ground with every shot
- The cone of doubt, an honest landing ellipse that widens with tension, wind, ground and payload
- Fallen lads freeze and rasterise into the terrain, then slump into a climbable ramp
- One lad for precision, or three as grapeshot that collide with each other in mid-air
- Three emplacements, turf, mud and rock, that each betray you differently
- Verlet ragdolls and instanced WebGL in a single self-contained file, no libraries