Lanternwing

Swing from light to light. Outrun the night.

You are a little moth with glowing wings, crossing a sky of floating islands from sunset to dawn. Cast a silk thread to a paper lantern, a wind bell under a floating pagoda, the vines of a floating island or the tail of a kite, swing, and let go inside the golden arc to fly. Every light you touch makes the world a little brighter. Behind you, a giant shadow of night swallows the stars: outrun it.

How to play

• Click Run game above. The Full screen button is in the corner (or press F).
• Click or tap where you want to swing: the silk flies to the nearest lantern, bell, vine or kite there, forwards or back. Keyboard and gamepad: Space or A to grab, Left/Right to choose the direction.
• Hold to swing. A dotted path shows where you will fly; let go when it turns gold for a PERFECT. Five Perfects in a row light up the whole sky.
• Tap the empty sky to flutter (three flaps, refilled on every grab). The clouds catch you once per flight.
• P or the II button pauses.

Three ways to fly

• Flight: outrun the night. How far can you go?
• Daily Flight: today's sky is the same for everyone. Race the ghost of your best attempt and post your distance in the comments.
• Zen: no night behind you, the clouds always catch you. Just fly.

Features

• One button, deep timing: the golden arc shows exactly when to let go, and a grab never steals your speed.
• Swing from more than lanterns: wind bells under floating pagodas, vines under floating islands, paper kites, the tail of a comet (a fast tow) and the fin of a giant sky whale (ride it!).
• Power-ups on the way: the moon shield, the golden thread, the dandelion that slows time, a firefly swarm, and updrafts of rising petals.
• A journey from golden hour through a moonlit night under the Milky Way, a copper lunar eclipse and the northern lights to dawn.
• A little acrobat: the moth swings with real momentum and flips off its best releases, and the camera films it like a cinematographer, with wide reveals of the whole sky world.
• Race your best: a gold bar fills as you close in, and every flight ends with a score, a medal and a title (Sky Swinger, Night Outrunner, Star Catcher, Dawn Bringer).
• Small wishes to fulfil, wing glows to unlock, your best distance waiting in the sky.

Plays in the browser on desktop and on phones in landscape. Progress is saved in your browser.

How it was made

An AI agent made the first version of this game on its own, overnight, from a single prompt. This is what came out of one day of my notes on top of it: I can't code, so I played it, painted over screenshots and told the AI exactly what felt wrong, about seventy times.

Directed by me, made with AI tools: code written with Claude Code (Anthropic), art generated with ChatGPT and art-directed from my own paintovers, music made by me with Suno, sound effects and ambience made with Stable Audio 3 (Powered by Stability AI) and the project's own synthesis, engine Godot 4.7. Fonts: Lora and Lilita One (SIL Open Font License).

Free to play. Please don't re-upload the game or reuse its art, music or code without permission.

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