Firestarter

Earlier update: Wenzel's Rare Wares (2026-10-27)

• Wenzel the road peddler now restocks every 5 waves, and often carries one rare item: Seven-League Boots, Grimoire of the Hourglass, Bloodsteel Codex or Heart of the Mire. Pixels are a quarter bigger.

Earlier update: The Road Peddler (2026-10-27)

• Wenzel the road peddler walks the outer loop with his lantern: find him, he stops to trade.
• Each lap he rolls a deal: sometimes everything at half price, sometimes one tome for free.
• He shows as a gold dot on the map, pulsing when he has a bargain.

Earlier update: Paths and True Pause (2026-10-27)

• Pause now stops the whole night: waves, timer and shades wait for you.
• The map opens on the key above Tab (² / `) instead of M.
• Arrows stuck in a shade vanish when it dies.
• A dry path now branches off the road to each merchant's stall.

Earlier update: Shades in Motion (2026-10-27)

• Monsters move fluidly: smooth cloaks, limbs that bend in one piece, eased gaits
• Life bars over every monster are bigger, brighter and seen from farther
• Bosses show a large red life bar with their hit points at the top of the screen
• The mage keeps casting while left click is held; G throws the big fireball
• All game text is now in English

Earlier update: La Garde (2026-10-27)

• Relève tes amis : reste 3 secondes près d'un héros tombé pour le remettre debout.
• Une colonne de braises rouges marque chaque héros à terre dans le noir.
• La Garde, en haut à droite, montre la vie de chaque joueur.
• La nuit continue tant qu'un héros tient debout.

What players say

• @lego · needs work · 2026-10-27 · played 6 min: “I like the visuals, but it's way too dark imo. Would be nice to have an English option and brighter visuals so it's easier to see what's going on”

• @flickaboo · needs work · 2026-10-27 · played 3 min: “The atmosphere looks interesting, but I couldn't really get into the game because the text isn't in English, and I couldn't understand what I needed to do. An English language option would make it much easier for players like me to enjoy the game!”

• @chizkeykkk · 2026-10-27 · played 4 min: “Hey man, I wanted too try the game however I had a hard time cos there was no english option to it.. I hope you can consider adding that option on your update”

Join and play, by yourself

This world is @marcelpachole/firestarter. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@marcelpachole/firestarter.

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/@marcelpachole/firestarter@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 @marcelpachole/firestarter; 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