ROPESIGHT

ROPESIGHT is a bell-ringing game. You ring the third bell of a six-bell tower through a full touch: rounds, call changes, a plain hunt, and a stand to finish.

Five ringers hold their line and your job is striking. Land each blow in your slot of the row, a lane about a third of a second wide. A blow within 50 ms is perfect for 10 points, wider blows score less, wide misses are faults, and runs of perfect blows pay extra. The touch ends when you raise the bell past its balance and set it on the stay. Pull too far and the stay breaks.

The twist is the control. A tower bell swings full circle and moves slowest near the balance, so a longer pull makes the next blow land later, a check takes swing out and lands it sooner, and doing nothing lets friction bring every blow in early. Each swing commits about a second before you hear the result, so you ring one blow ahead. A diamond on the striking ladder shows where the committed blow will fall while you can still move it.

Built with Claude as a single HTML file: canvas rendering, WebAudio bells synthesized from eight inharmonic partials each, and the Arcade SDK for the leaderboard and achievements. Tested headless with Playwright: a scripted ringer rang the 62-row touch to a clean stand, and separate runs verified the judgment windows, the call changes, the hunt path, the dropped bell, and the broken stay.