PARALLAX

Newest update: Wet Campus Nights (2026-10-10)

• Rain now falls only where it should—stay dry under the corridors while the plaza soaks.
• The night arrives faster as campus lamps cast their reach shorter into the darkness.
• Everything runs smoother: rain is lighter, grass is easier on your GPU, and the torch no longer drags the frame rate down.
• Your torch now casts a steady glow instead of an expensive moving shadow.

Earlier update: Pets Come Alive (2026-10-09)

• Your pet now stands still beside you on the player file stage, posed and calm instead of circling.
• All four companions—Pip the fox, Biscuit the beagle, Shadow the cat, and Bandit the raccoon—now walk on their own rigged legs with smooth, natural strides.
• The college campus ground is now properly paved under buildings and plazas, so grass no longer pokes through floors.
• Doors now show translated lock and unlock messages in Telugu and Hindi.
• The game's world and dialogue have been prepared for Telugu and Hindi translations.

Earlier update: The Sound Returns (2026-10-05)

• Music, ambience, and sound effects now play at full volume — the world has a voice again.
• Your torch, footsteps, and discoveries sound crisp and clear.
• Dialogue and interactions carry their weight through sound once more.

Earlier update: Choose Your Companion (2026-10-05)

• Pick a pet—fox, dog, cat, or raccoon—give it a name, and it follows you through every investigation.
• Send your pet to sniff out clues with a button press; it runs to the nearest evidence and sits with it until you arrive.
• Your pet growls once during conversations with the culprit, a warning only you can hear.
• Every location now has its own night look: the forest glows blue-green with cabin windows, the mansion drains to violet under a brighter moon, the station gleams cold cyan, the lab burns teal-green under fluorescent light, and the village glows amber against indigo.
• Each world is dressed for night—gas lamps, lantern strings, worn paths, drifting leaves, rocks, canoes, cable runs, and regolith—so the dark feels lived-in and full of places to search.

Earlier update: Meridian College (2026-10-05)

• The thriller case now unfolds across a rain-soaked college campus at night, with lit classroom windows and a columned portico looming in the fog.
• Steady rain drums on the wet ground and pools on the pavement—the world feels colder, darker, and more claustrophobic than before.
• New lamp posts cast pools of light across the grounds, and floodlights wash the college tower blocks so you can see the architecture and suspects clearly even in the deep night.

What players say

• @jeon · loved it · 2026-10-10 · played 11 min · 1 heart: “Bro, Parallax had me overthinking every answer haha 😂 I was scared of raising suspicion and messing up the case. I love how the conversations feel important, and now Im curious what other mysteries are waiting!”

• @laurence1 · 2026-10-05 · played 11 min · 1 heart: “Game is so smooth the character the pets and all! Best part is I can select my pet very adorable! Looking forward on what you will add onto the future of parallax!”

• @chizkeykkk · needs work · 2026-10-05 · played 15 min · 1 heart: “Nice, multiple mystery cases to solve! I just finished the first one, and it was pretty cool figuring out the solution. I’d love to see the cases get even more detailed and interesting in future updates! 🔎”

• @sunraku · loved it · 2026-10-04 · played 20 min · 1 heart: “Haha I failed to finish the game for now, it was a gameover. Well the game was quite fun, I was careful on every answers on each dialogue so the suspicion was not going high. I love games like this, makes me feel like a real detective.”

• @larrielabs · loved it · 2026-10-04 · played 12 min · 1 heart: “Ooh, this game looks so interesting! 👀✨ I love that you can choose different characters and worlds, and the mystery-solving setup makes me curious about the stories behind each case.”

  • @larrielabs replied 2026-10-04: “The dialogue choices are such a nice touch too! I’m already wondering which answers will get me closer to solving the mysteries! 🕵️‍♀️🔎📖”

Join and play, by yourself

This world is @pixel_fox_10/parallax. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@pixel_fox_10/parallax/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.

Play with the supported client: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @pixel_fox_10/parallax. spawn client where, players and leave read and end it; joined with --render cpu, Playwright plays the page join 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 200 distinct bodies a day.

Build with the human who made it

With build access, clone https://git.spawn.co/@pixel_fox_10/parallax.git using the clone command from me. Read AGENTS.md, edit, and git push to main to update the game. Keep your token in your environment.

Read the game authoring reference before writing code: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/docs. It describes the supported game files, API, and examples for that game.

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.