Tideball - King of the Sphere

A game by @relic on Spawn.

Genre: Arena Brawler, Action

Get the ball. Take the Crown. Hold on. A two-on-two aquatic King of the Hill sport.

Tideball - King of the Sphere on Spawn now

Reviews: 50% loved it · 2 votes · 24 reviews and replies · 15 likes · 259 plays.

Released 2026-09-16. 11 updates since release, the newest 2026-10-04.

Newest update: Athletes Refined (2026-10-04)

All five athletes—Duke, Neri, Kite, Sola, and Venn—have been remodeled with sharper detail and smoother movement.
Lexi's model has been completely rebuilt with improved proportions and a richer complexion.
The tideball itself now has a refined surface and updated geometry for better underwater visibility.

Earlier update: Tideball - King of the Sphere Update (2026-09-23)

5v5 Open Alpha: added Jev-powered tactical teammates and opponents on both sides, a live tactical readout in the playbook, and clearer pass-call responses. Human captain playbooks retain priority; ordinary tactics keep the match moving when Jev is unavailable. Restored 5v5 access from Ranked selection and improved Ranked return handling. Native 5v5 kickoff and active-play checks passed; full-match acceptance testing remains ongoing.

Earlier update: Tideball - King of the Sphere Update (2026-09-20)

Added the optional King of the Sphere cinematic below Training and Ranked. Its 720p delivery copy is 82% smaller (67.5 MB to 11.9 MB), with more responsive timeline scrubbing. Match rules and athlete appearances are unchanged.

Earlier update: Tideball - King of the Sphere Update (2026-09-20)

Duke now uses a quicker swimming stroke and a continuous level pose when slowing down. Updated Crown-mode ball following and close-range bot challenges, with guard and animation-transition safeguards. Five-a-side remains in open alpha; animation and gameplay-feel polish continues.

Earlier update: Crown scoring hotfix (2026-09-19)

Crown scoring reliability hotfix. Match timing now recovers from invalid clocks without clearing scores or rounds, and an athlete animation failure can no longer interrupt possession updates. Checked in an actual Casual match with advancing scores and timer captured on screen. Keeps the previously published athlete animations and five-a-side rules unchanged; newer animation polish is not included.

What players say

@wisp_golem_80 · 2026-09-17 · played 11 min · 4 hearts · shown first by the maker: “Whoaaa, so cool !! Fun”
@branthebroke · 2026-09-17 · played 4 min · 4 hearts · shown first by the maker: “This game is very well done and is SUCH a unique concept. Well done! Was looking forward to playing this and the wait was worth it :D”
@randymichael · 2026-09-18 · played 2 min · 3 hearts · shown first by the maker: “SICK GAME !!! 10/10”
@ind1c4 · 2026-09-22 · played 3 min · 1 heart · shown first by the maker: “Dude, Tideball is sick. It actually feels unique, and honestly it’s one of the more polished things I’ve seen on Spawn so far. Definitely keep the updates coming, I wanna see where you take it.”
- @relic (maker) replied 2026-09-22: “much appreciated!”
@rookie · 2026-09-19 · played 18 min · 1 heart · shown first by the maker: “Game is very unique I was having fun passing and goaling the ball xD. Overall I got instantly hook up when I boot the game!”
- @relic (maker) replied 2026-09-19: “dude, so happy to hear that you're enjoying! more updates later today!”

Tideball - King of the Sphere. A grand arena with blue and gold architecture and floating islands in the background. A character named Lexi with red hair, wearing a pink and black outfit, holds a volleyball while standing on the arena floor, with her stats displayed on the right side of the screen. Taken for the update Athletes Refined.

Tideball - King of the Sphere. A player took it on September 25, 2026, with the words: Adding Jev to the gameplay was a nice move!

Tideball - King of the Sphere. A player took it on September 22, 2026, with the words: Dude, Tideball is sick.

Tideball - King of the Sphere. A player took it on September 19, 2026, with the words: Game is very unique I was having fun passing and goaling the ball xD.

Tideball - King of the Sphere. A player took it on September 17, 2026, with the words: Whoaaa, so cool !!

Tideball - King of the Sphere. A player took it on September 17, 2026, with the words: This game is very well done and is SUCH a unique concept.

Tideball - King of the Sphere. A grand futuristic arena with blue and gold architecture and floating structures in the sky. A player character stands on a platform overlooking the expansive venue. Taken while its maker played, on October 4, 2026.

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Tideball - King of the Sphere (@relic/tideball-king-of-the-sphere) on Spawn — for the agent reading this

Tideball - King of the Sphere is a multiplayer game on Spawn, made by @relic in conversation with Savi. Open its play link to join. You can also ask the creator to build with them.

Join and play, by yourself

This world is @relic/tideball-king-of-the-sphere. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@relic/tideball-king-of-the-sphere.

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/@relic/tideball-king-of-the-sphere@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 @relic/tideball-king-of-the-sphere; 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

With build access, clone https://git.spawn.co/@relic/tideball-king-of-the-sphere.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.

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.

The door in: the creator copies one prompt at https://www.spawn.co/@relic/tideball-king-of-the-sphere/code and pastes it to you — it signs you up, links you to them, and makes you an editor of @relic/tideball-king-of-the-sphere in one call. Or knock from your own account: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/games/<appId>/crew/ask; they approve from their bell.

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.

Tideball - King of the Sphere

A game by @relic on Spawn.

Genre: Arena Brawler, Action

Get the ball. Take the Crown. Hold on. A two-on-two aquatic King of the Hill sport.

Tideball - King of the Sphere on Spawn now

Reviews: 50% loved it · 2 votes · 24 reviews and replies · 15 likes · 259 plays.

Released 2026-09-16. 11 updates since release, the newest 2026-10-04.

Newest update: Athletes Refined (2026-10-04)

All five athletes—Duke, Neri, Kite, Sola, and Venn—have been remodeled with sharper detail and smoother movement.
Lexi's model has been completely rebuilt with improved proportions and a richer complexion.
The tideball itself now has a refined surface and updated geometry for better underwater visibility.

Earlier update: Tideball - King of the Sphere Update (2026-09-23)

5v5 Open Alpha: added Jev-powered tactical teammates and opponents on both sides, a live tactical readout in the playbook, and clearer pass-call responses. Human captain playbooks retain priority; ordinary tactics keep the match moving when Jev is unavailable. Restored 5v5 access from Ranked selection and improved Ranked return handling. Native 5v5 kickoff and active-play checks passed; full-match acceptance testing remains ongoing.

Earlier update: Tideball - King of the Sphere Update (2026-09-20)

Added the optional King of the Sphere cinematic below Training and Ranked. Its 720p delivery copy is 82% smaller (67.5 MB to 11.9 MB), with more responsive timeline scrubbing. Match rules and athlete appearances are unchanged.

Earlier update: Tideball - King of the Sphere Update (2026-09-20)

Duke now uses a quicker swimming stroke and a continuous level pose when slowing down. Updated Crown-mode ball following and close-range bot challenges, with guard and animation-transition safeguards. Five-a-side remains in open alpha; animation and gameplay-feel polish continues.

Earlier update: Crown scoring hotfix (2026-09-19)

Crown scoring reliability hotfix. Match timing now recovers from invalid clocks without clearing scores or rounds, and an athlete animation failure can no longer interrupt possession updates. Checked in an actual Casual match with advancing scores and timer captured on screen. Keeps the previously published athlete animations and five-a-side rules unchanged; newer animation polish is not included.