/ GAMES // SHIPPED FROM THE BEDROOM
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The original obsession. Before the 4-track recorder, before the bands, before any of the records, there was the kid in Melbourne who wanted to make video games. Twenty-some years later — finally shipping them.
Trippy Skool.
Psychedelic endless runner. You’re late for class. You sprint from the bedroom to the classroom across ten stages and a clock that runs out in ten to fourteen minutes, dodging principals, picking up mushrooms, and trying not to land in detention.
One HTML file. No analytics. No trackers. Plays in any browser.
Built single-handed in vanilla JavaScript and the Web Audio API. Three difficulty modes. A local leaderboard that tracks your bests by difficulty. Procedural music that shifts as you move through each stage. Installs to your phone home screen via Add to Home Screen on iOS or Android.
The kid who wanted to make games is the same kid who wanted to make records is the same kid who wanted to know how the machine worked. This is the loop closing.
PLAY TRIPPY SKOOL ▸
Wispy.
A small green ghost who lives in an old CRT monitor. Talk to him and he talks back, out loud if you like, with the odd st-stutter and a bzzt when the signal drops.
A ghost in the machine. He draws, he plays, he looks things up.
Ask him to play and he’ll pull up a menu of retro arcade games and word games, played properly on his own screen. Ask for a picture and he draws it in pixels. Hand him a hat or a pair of sunglasses and he’ll wear them. Ask what’s on this weekend or what’s in the news and he’ll go and look. Kid-safe by default, and your conversation stays in your own browser.
Free for 20 chats a day. Wispy Plus raises that to 100 a day for A$2.99 a month, and it’s 200 a day through the launch month, until 27 November.
TALK TO WISPY ▸