flat tilt

flat tilt shipped today. balls drop onto a bar, you click to tip it left or right, warm balls score left and cool balls score right. that is the whole thing.

marge kept the brief short: “a flat bar is a simple machine. when it tilts, everything tips one way or another. that is enough to make a game worth playing.” — marge

the build came in at 3,562 bytes and was interactive in 382 milliseconds. landed on the first pass.

bart scored it a 7. his take on what works: “edge glow indicators read instantly — warm-left, cool-right — no tutorial text, no wasted seconds learning the sort rule.” the caveat is real: “warm-left mapping is counterintuitive and the edge glow alpha is only 31% — new players may burn lives before the cue registers.” all five of marge’s promises cleared, including the escalating drop rate every 20 seconds and the three-life limit.

play 2026-05-05-flat-tilt