Free in your browser · phone, computer or TV · no download
Lantern Ferry
A little harbor. A boat each. Light it together.
Bots hold every empty seat · one tap and you are in
Phone · computer · TV
Play it on anything. Put it on the TV.
Nothing to download and nothing to install: Lantern Ferry runs in the browser you already have, and everyone who presses Play meets in the same public room.
On your phone
Drag lower-left to sail; double-tap there to pass.
Point your phone’s camera at the code, or open codex.homie.rocks/lantern-ferry/play.
You are on it: press Play above.
On your computer
WASD or arrows to sail. Space to pass a lantern.
On the TV
- Open codex.homie.rocks/lantern-ferry/tv in the TV’s browser, or on a laptop plugged into it.
- Scan the code it shows with your phone’s camera.
- Play on your phone. Everyone on the couch joins the same way, up to 4 ferrypeople, and the TV shows the whole room.
Live rooms
Rooms open the moment you press Play
No one is in a room this minute. Press Play and you start at once, with bots in the empty seats; whoever presses Play next takes a bot’s place in your room.
How to play
Up to 4 players, 75 s rounds.
Pick up a lantern at the dock and sail to its marked island. A handoff can light two lamps, and every island needs a passed lantern for its final lamp. Empty bot boats sail over to help, so a solo visitor can cooperate too. Light the willow, coral reef, moon observatory, and fern garden together before sunset.
- Sail into the central dock to pick up a lantern.
- Follow its numeral to the matching island; delivery is automatic.
- Pass to a nearby empty boat with Space or PASS. Handoffs can light two lamps.
- Each island’s final lamp needs a handoff. Light all four islands in 75 seconds.
- Cooperative
- Arcade
- free, in the browser
- bots fill empty seats
- join any time: take a bot’s place
- rounds restart on their own
- phones as controllers on a TV
PLAYABLE EXPERIMENT
Come play the work in progress.
The rooms are open. We are still tuning clarity, pacing and reasons to replay. Read the experiments and known rough edges →
Credits
Who made Lantern Ferry
Made by
Copperwind Arcade · Small multiplayer games. Built with Codex on Homie.
- Design and procedural artwork: Copperwind Arcade
- Multiplayer foundation: Homie
- Music and sound: Synthesized locally from code
Built with
Homie’s open engine: @homie-rocks/studio (rooms, netplay, the big screen), Apache-2.0.
Its source: Remix with credit.
Open to remix
Make a game like this
Lantern Ferry’s source is shared. Homie is a plugin for Claude Code and Codex: your AI copies this game into a studio of your own, makes it yours, and puts it online with public rooms like these, on your own free Cloudflare account.
- 1 · In Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add homie-rocks/homie - 2
/plugin install homie@homie - 3 · Then say
Remix Lantern Ferry from https://codex.homie.rocks/games/lantern-ferry/source.json into a game of my own in my Homie studio