Wickworks

A game by @seele on Spawn.

Genre: Puzzle, Platformer, Strategy

You're a living candle navigating a foundry's heat and hazards. Place and break blocks to escape the rising molten, one level at a time.

Wickworks on Spawn now

8 reviews and replies · 4 likes · 201 plays.

Released 2026-08-06. 14 updates since release, the newest 2026-09-05.

Newest update: Slagfall (2026-09-05)
  • A sprawling three-tier campaign level descends from the Bellows Floor through spike-skip shafts and a vault of Emberseals, past a molten jaw-ride crossing, and down into a flooded gauntlet racing a rising sea.
  • Ride a Slagjaw across fifteen tiles of lava while embers stream behind you like a comet tail.
  • The Forgemaster waits in the Crucible sealed behind stone—defeat him to light the Beacon and claim victory.
  • Four different Emberseals test your movement mastery: climbing vines, riding spinning clouds, bouncing through phantom teachers, and threading pocket seams.
  • A rising tide forces a desperate sprint through frost-laden peaks and into the final quench—every second counts.
Earlier update: Clean Pockets (2026-09-02)
  • Every attempt now starts with empty pockets: no seals, sparkcaps or carried keys ride over from the last level, and the HUD starts fresh. The Bellowsraft climbs to the nearest stone line instead of sailing past its landing. Music plays on your own ears now, so two Wicks in two rooms never cut each other off. The bench stays quiet in edit mode, the Long Burn is off the shelf, and the watch room's controls hold their press.
Earlier update: Ambient Whispers (2026-09-02)
  • Room atmospheres now shift with the mood and setting of each space you enter.
  • Audio ambience fades smoothly as you move between different areas, creating seamless sonic transitions.
  • Each themed room now has its own distinct ambient soundscape that loops quietly in the background.
Earlier update: The Ear Update (2026-08-27)
  • Music now plays independently for each player — no more overlapping songs from different screens.
  • Audio stays smooth and unbroken as you move between the bench, editor, and levels.
  • Volume sliders are now rock-solid — muted players stay unmuted, and settings stick.
  • The workshop's ambient hum and forge roar settle into their proper steady tones.
Earlier update: The Heat Fix (2026-08-25)
  • Heat effects now display correctly as you approach dangerous zones.
What players say
  • @lego · 2026-09-08 · played 1 hr 40 min · 1 heart: “I'm trying to beat your Slagfall, but it looks like this area is bugged. The lava should start low, but now it's always starting around the middle, completely covering the fragile platform. Am I right?”

    • @seele (maker) replied 2026-09-08: “Hey, yeah it shouldn't be like this and never was during my tests, seems like more are broken and i need some time to think about the future of this game till i go on and try to fix it.”
  • @makeriffic · 2026-09-05 · played 20 min · 1 heart: “I kind of got addicted to this game, it was pretty funny to see where other players as well as myself died on the particular round. What a cool addition to the game. Although it is kind of embarrassing at the same time when players get to see where I died the most lol.”

  • @lego · 2026-09-02 · played 1 hr 40 min · 1 heart: “i like platformer games (my fave is Celeste), and i'm really looking forward to seeing you polish this game! i know your priority is the movement and smoothness, so yeah, excited to see where this goes!”

    • @seele (maker) replied 2026-09-02: “I did some fixes on the movement, there are still more to be done, im trying right now to fix the bugs where they dont work like they should and then planning a re-do of the tutorial or a campaign. thanks for the feedback”
  • @larrielabs · 2026-08-31 · played 2 hrs 19 min · 1 heart: “The character is so cute, and I really love the idea of being able to make your own level! Most games let you customize your character, but in this one, you get to customize the game itself. That’s awesome! ✨”

    • @seele (maker) replied 2026-09-02: “Savi came up with the idea of the character indeed its cute, i like it as well. Thanks for the feedback ^^”
  • @mistarpudding · 2026-08-27 · played 1 hr 54 min · 1 heart: “hey seele, i just made a level called "Mildly Infuriating". see if you can complete it. :D also, if i may suggest, there are some things i wanted to add to the level that aren't in the game: Timer - wanted to give players a 30 second timer to complete the level. 2. spikes that point downward (i have something in plan for this haha).”

    • @seele (maker) replied 2026-08-27: “hey mistarpudding, i played your level, and beat it and ohh maann i died quite a bunch of times there, noice one, fun fact you can see my attempt of beating it if you press the play button situated on the level. Good stuff you did there with the jump + spin and the last 2 flame ones ar the end, you really have to time it well, thanks a lot for making a level, it was awesome”
    • @seele (maker) replied 2026-08-27: “I just went ahead and verify that you can watch the recording and seems liek it needs some fixing, on it”
    • @seele (maker) replied 2026-08-27: “It supposed to be fixed now”
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Wickworks (@seele/wickworks) on Spawn — for the agent reading this

Wickworks is a multiplayer game on Spawn, made by @seele 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 @seele/wickworks. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@seele/wickworks/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, and a person's browser plays it with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@seele/wickworks@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.

A browser a script drives, headless or not, plays signed in as your account: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/login-link with {"next":"/@seele/wickworks@dev"} answers a one-use URL that signs that browser in.

Unsigned, such a browser is a guest, and a creator's world refuses it: "this browser was opened by an automated tool, so it can't visit a creator's world as a guest. sign in, or open the link in a browser you use yourself." Its maker can ask Spawn to let their own automated tool in by name.

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 @seele/wickworks; 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/@seele/wickworks/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.