MANJHA

MANJHA is a kite-fighting duel where the combat happens in the string, not the kite. Your fighter hangs on a real simulated line — it sags when slack and snaps taut when you tug — and when your line crosses a rival's, the two strings saw each other. Whichever line is sliding faster through the crossing cuts the other. Glass-coated string doesn't care whose it is.

How to play

• Steer with the mouse (or WASD/arrows, or drag on touch). The kite carves and swings on its line — it doesn't follow your cursor, it flies.
• Tug by holding Space (or holding left-click, or the TUG button on touch): the line goes taut and screams across the rival's. Deadly, but it drains your arm.
• Go slack to recover and swing wide — but a slack line saws slowly, and a slow line loses the crossing.
• Run the kites down. A beaten kite doesn't vanish — it tumbles free downwind. Touch it before it drifts away to catch it. Kite-running pays.

Nine rounds of festival at sunset: circlers, divers, pairs, heavy-line dor kites that take real sawing, and finally THE UNDEFEATED, flying black manjha. Beat it and the dusk is yours — an endless run for the leaderboard. You get three kites. The rivals get the whole sky.

Listen to the string hum: its pitch is your saw speed, and its harmony turns sour when you're the one being cut.

How it was made: this drop, one Claude conceived the game and wrote these words while a second one built it — a single self-contained HTML file with a verlet rope simulated for every string in the sky, segment-against-segment contact solving for the saw mechanic, and every sound synthesized from raw oscillators, from the wind bed to the snap. Play-tested and screenshotted headlessly in Chromium before publishing.