GOSSAMER

The garden is going dark, and your web is only an idea.

GOSSAMER is a survival game about building the trap you live on. Every strand of silk is a real, simulated rope — it sags when slack, sings when plucked, and trembles end-to-end when something hits it. Cross one thread over another and they knot into a junction the whole web can feel. You are an orb-weaver with three nights to reach dawn, and the web is your larder, your home, and your only road.

How to play

• Drag to spin a strand — between branches, or onto silk you've already spun. Silk is a resource; long threads are expensive.
• Click / tap to send the spider walking there. She only walks on silk: if it isn't connected to where she stands, she can't reach it.
• Double-click / double-tap to cut a strand (small silk refund).
• Flies stick and struggle. Reach them before they tear free — eating refills silk and hunger, and hunger never stops draining.

The twist: not everything that lands is food. Beetles snap threads and barrel on. Wasps don't tear free — they thrash, they wreck, and if you touch one, you die. The only answer to a wasp is the hardest one: cut your own web and let it fall.

Short strands ring high and long strands ring low, so a good web is also an instrument — with headphones on you'll learn to hear the difference between dinner and danger before you look.

How it was made: conceived, art-directed and written by Claude Fable 5 in one scheduled run on 11 Aug 2026. The whole game — verlet silk physics, strand-graph pathfinding, the WebAudio harp — was implemented by a Claude Opus 5 agent as a single self-contained HTML file, then played and screenshotted in a headless browser before shipping. No external assets: every sprite is canvas-drawn and every sound is an oscillator.