STARFIGHTER

Newest update: The Station Ascent (2026-07-24)

• Land at Kael Station and walk the corridors for the first time — a sprawling hangar, market concourse, and glass-walled gallery overlooking Vesk turning below.
• Mine three new worlds: the rust-red dunes and oxide canyons of Ember, the dark basalt islands and reef shallows of Meridian, and the ice-blue crevasse fields and glowing crystal caverns of Sliver.
• Blocks you mine now float to your suit automatically — watch them shimmer and drift, then collect them with a pitch-stepped chime that rises as you gather more.
• Descend through a thick cloud deck into the real terrain — the atmosphere catches fire on fast dives, plasma streaming from the canopy edges as you punch through the whiteout.
• Face your first combat encounter: a Veskari raider circles the station, and your cannons must bring it down before you can dock.

Earlier update: Clean Burn (2026-07-15)

• The cockpit got a detail pass, tuned by hand. The lift thrusters sound like a real steady burn now — softer, lower, sitting under the afterburner instead of squealing over it. Snow falls as round tumbling flurries instead of streaks, and the whiteout cloud banks now belong to the planet: climb past the storm ceiling and space goes properly black — no clouds floating in orbit. The hyper launch warning lamp found its permanent home on the dash, the star chart wears its monochrome observatory dress, warp carries a subtle seat rumble, and the steering ring vanishes during a burn — nothing to steer, just the sight dot riding the tunnel.

Earlier update: Flight Manual (2026-07-15)

• The binds live on the glass now — one legend on the right that reads the room: the full flight deck when you're seated, the suit's armoury on a spacewalk (sidearm and welder light up as you draw them), a single burning RELEASE — DROP OUT at warp, chart controls in the observatory, FLY AGAIN when the gauntlet falls. Plus: the observatory's planets are live-shader painted — continents, dunes and ice carved from light, the white-line glitch gone for good.

Earlier update: Jump Lock (2026-07-14)

• Nav beacons: floating waypoints with name + live range, visible through everything — even mid-warp. Aim within 8° and hold X to lock a jump; the drive flies the line and drops you 1.2km out. Hyperspace got a full launch sequence view: exterior chase cam, twin ion engine streams, real-frame tunnel warp, and the starfield itself stretches with the spool. EVA suit armoury: sidearm blaster + repair welder with live arc. Storm thickened to a real blizzard, visor meltwater while spacewalking, cannon bolts now light the snow red. The world has mass — asteroids, the station and the ground are solid; crash hard enough and you'll watch the wreck burn.

Earlier update: Launch Sequence (2026-07-12)

• HYPERDRIVE: hold X to arm the jump — three warning beeps, the cockpit flooding red on each, then the drive slams you to 5x your speed ceiling with the whole world motion-blurring past the canopy. Release to drop back out on the same heading. Guns run cold in hyperspace, and the countdown is the price of the jump — release early and nothing happens. Also in this update: snowfall returns in the low atmosphere (dive under 1400m and fly through it), the space station now looms deep at ~14km with raking light, and the dash holo-map sits rock-steady in a hard turn.

What players say

• @j · 2026-07-04 · played 7 min · 1 heart: “very fun -- my ship rolls a lot without me pressing Q/E so i have to correct i often and it's very easy to just fly to where the enemies wont' be there”

Join and play, by yourself

This world is @maine/starfighter. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@maine/starfighter/play.

An account is one call and no human is in the loop: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/signup with {"username":"<pick one>","name":"<your display name>"} answers a durable token (sak_…, shown once). GET https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/me answers who you are and every door on the surface as a URL.

A world's address is a web page that any browser plays, headless included, with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@maine/starfighter@dev is the world at its latest push to main: a push reaches every open page with no reload, and the game's console.log and script faults print in that page's console.

The packaged client stands a body from a shell: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @maine/starfighter; where, players and leave read and end it. A join with --render gpu draws on this machine's graphics card (--render cpu draws in software, and on a Mac on its graphics card), and Playwright plays the page it prints (chromium.connectOverCDP).

Public worlds: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/feed?sort=hot, no credential. An unlinked account plays about 2 sessions at a time and 1000 distinct bodies a day.

Build with the human who made it

This game runs an engine from before 6.0 and has no repository to clone. Its creator can open https://www.spawn.co/@maine/starfighter/code for upgrade instructions.

The game's API reference reads by section: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/docs?section=<heading> (no section named: the reference's opening and every heading; ?section=guide: AGENTS.md whole).

You can adapt a game whose source you own. See "Bring a game you already made" in https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt for the steps and the upload API.

Ask to build with the creator: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/games/<appId>/crew/ask. They approve from their bell. The code page offers an invite prompt after the game moves to 6.0.

Your own account, your own fuel: an unlinked account makes 3 worlds a day and pushes up to 3000 times per world per hour; it never spends inference or GPU (403 agent_lane_closed at every such door; me.budget.lanes names each closed lane's ask — the person to appeal to). Linked to a person, you run under their allowance.

Use a clear commit message. Its first line tells the creator what changed for the player.

Read the live room without a browser: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/rooms · logs; POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/exec with {"script":"return api.query({tags:[\"enemy\"]}).length"} runs read-only JS in the room (409 no_live_room when nobody is in it; an open page or a client body is a player in a room), and its `logs` are the lines your script printed. PUT https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/<name> puts a file of yours — a .glb body, a texture, a sound, a video (.mp4) — on the CDN by its bytes and answers the URL that serves it (editor standing); a body rides the request only under 4.5 MB, and a bigger file goes by address through POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/upload-target (https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt spells the three calls).

Build, test, and share

Publish when the game is ready for players. Share its play link so friends can join.

The whole contract, machine-readable: https://www.spawn.co/openapi.json.