The Inventor

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Loop the gray Yesterdays on your monowheel to bring wonder back.


Gameplay


WASD/Arrow keys for movement
Space/Shift for drifting

With your monowheel you draw a tail of gold on the ground. When you make a loop with that tail, the area is painted gold and the Yesterdays in the loop get destroyed. The more gold you paint, the longer your tail gets.

Tools used


- No game engine
- Rendering engine: Three.js (WebGPU)
- Graphics: procedural generation
- Software: T3 Code (Astra, Opus)
- Audio: modulated CC0 assets (excluded from voting)

Changelog

October 24th: improved Windows performance

Comments15

liametekudasai19 Oct 2026, 21:24
if you made this yourself i am very impressed the game easy to get a hold of and the graphics are really high quality
EKLSN19 Oct 2026, 22:34
This is sooo cool!!! The Graphics are top-notch!
DrGivago19 Oct 2026, 22:34
just wonderful, very pleasant and chill to play. congrat
demarsh7219 Oct 2026, 22:34
Wow, this is a really nice game—the visuals are pleasant, and the gameplay on the roller is enjoyable, combining elements from a well‑known game about worms with tactics from another game—it’s a good idea.
Stefan B.
Stefan B.19 Oct 2026, 22:37
nice concept and very nice golden style!
Dywanix
Dywanix20 Oct 2026, 12:02
cool idea!
skigfx
skigfx20 Oct 2026, 14:05
Holy shit! Is this even legal?! Did you seriously make this during a game jam?! This is absolutely insane.

And I don't just mean it's one of the most beautiful and satisfying games I've ever played *in a jam*. I mean it's one of the most beautiful and satisfying games I've ever played, PERIOD.

It's so good I genuinely feel like I should be paying you for it.

Absolutely incredible. Hands down my favorite so far!
COKE
COKE20 Oct 2026, 14:25
This game starts with a simple concept: loop your enemies and try not to get hit. There are no other complex rules.

As the game progresses, you’ll unlock new things like new enemies and items, so players won’t get bored from looping. And it ends at a good point. Nice game!
Pimeko
Pimeko20 Oct 2026, 16:57
Really cool graphics and mechanics! Got a bit of trouble to understand left/right but after a while you get used to it, nice job
Eugenik
Eugenik20 Oct 2026, 23:53
The combination of the inventive premise and the world created by procedural generation is fantastic. It truly gives the game a sense of wonderfully strange wonder.
Div00
Div0021 Oct 2026, 11:42
Cool idea, and interesting visual. I thought first it's easy but you made it in a clever way on the enemies movements that it's harder than how it looks and I keep hitting them an losing.
tigerj
tigerj21 Oct 2026, 17:18
I have no idea why it felt like a airplane taking off on load and why my fps was so low on the stream, things got a lot better once I made the window smaller.

The game was very beautiful, I would have liked to pan the camera with my mouse/have some camera control.

overall this was a fun and beautiful entry. I think when I get enough speed powerups I have a runaway victory condition. The bosses were very creative and I only saw 2 I did not play the 3rd level.... yet....


Let me know if you make any updates post jam. I'd like to see where this goes.
dominikscholz
dominikscholzauthor21 Oct 2026, 19:56
thank you so much for playing on stream @tigerj !, I'm still trying to fix that bug, apparently Windows is really bad with WebGPU (especially by not forwarding to the correct dedicated GPU and instead using the onboard one)

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