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Tidewick Game Template

The complete TypeScript and three.js source of Tidewick, a cozy idle game with a real ending: gather, hire, build and light the lighthouse. Its balance is proven by a bot on every test run.

  • TypeScript
  • three.js
  • Vite 8
  • Web Audio
  • Vitest and Playwright
  • Coming soon

Coming soon

Not published on its store yet, so there is no buy or download link. PN Scripts does not take payment for it here.

Game templates
Tidewick early on: a bare rock island with a tower stump and the first milestone, Build the harbour

What it solves

The gap

Idle games live or die by their balance, and tuning an economy by playing it for hours is slow; building the game around it takes weeks more.

What it is

A finished, tested idle game with an ending whose economy lives in one config file and is checked by a bot in seconds.

How you use it

Unzip, run npm ci and npm run dev, then edit src/game.config.ts; npm test checks the game again in seconds.

Source code of a real, playable game to reskin and learn from, with its proofs built into the tests.

Who it is for

Use it when

  • Publishing your own short idle game (a farm, a space station, a bakery) on itch.io, web portals or your site.
  • Learning how to balance and test an incremental economy in TypeScript.
  • Building a calm branded browser game for a client.

Built for

  • Web and indie game developers who know some TypeScript.
  • Studios and freelancers who make branded browser games.

What you get

One config file

Title, logo, save key, three resources, six producers with their rising costs, eighteen upgrades, three milestones, the offline cap, balance targets, colours and sound.

Balance with a proof

A greedy bot replays the whole game on every npm test: it must finish inside the target window and never wait too long for its next purchase.

A finished game

Gather, hire, build and light the lighthouse; a diorama that grows, a sky from day to night, offline progress, export and import, and an ending with your time.

Tests and a guide

52 unit tests and Playwright browser runs, a size budget, an upload zip for itch.io or any static host, and a guide with a step-by-step rebalancing loop.

Specs

Availability
Coming soon
Vendor
PN Scripts
Type
Template
Platforms
JavaScript
Pricing
One-time purchase Price to be announced.
License
PN Scripts Template Licence 1.0
Deployment
Download (ZIP of source code)
Maturity
v1.0.0

Compatibility

Platform or runtime Supported versions Tested up to
Node.js 22.12 or newer Not stated

Stack

  • TypeScript
  • three.js
  • Vite 8
  • Web Audio
  • Vitest and Playwright

The Tidewick template is coming soon

The template is finished and tested. It is not on sale yet; this page will say where to get it when it is.

Coming soon

Not published on its store yet, so there is no buy or download link. PN Scripts does not take payment for it here.

Questions

Make and sell any number of your own games from it, and build games for clients. You may not resell or share the source code itself (PN Scripts Template Licence 1.0).

Node.js 22.12 or newer and some TypeScript. Google Chrome runs the browser tests.

No ad or portal SDK, and English only. It is tested in desktop Chrome and Chrome's Pixel 7 emulation, not yet on iOS Safari, Firefox or a real phone.

The code was written with AI assistance and checked by PN Scripts with automated tests. All visuals and sounds are generated by code; there are no AI-generated image or audio files.

It is not on sale yet. When it is, this page will link to the store; PN Scripts does not take payment on this site.