Wormifi

Play it now: wormifi.com — free in your browser, no download, no account. Install it on your phone without an app store.

Founding 50 external test: play one honest run, then open a free private room and invite one friend only if the arena earns another round.

Wormifi is an original living-chain arena web game. It keeps the category's instantly legible collect-grow-outmaneuver loop while making every follower a character, every arena reward readable before collection, and every local run reconstructible as an exact replay.

What exists now

• A deterministic 30 Hz TypeScript game core shared by local practice and the server-authoritative multiplayer room.
• A dense local arena with labeled AI rivals, exact head/body collision geometry, desktop steering, and persistent drag-anywhere, left-helm, or right-helm mobile control surfaces.
• Faceted Cut Gems, Treasure Chests, producer-colored wake loot, identity-bearing Rival Hoards, and a visible Loot Compass. The compass expands pickup range only for neutral gems and the carrier's own wake loot; it never vacuums rival remains, objectives, or another player's drops.
• An authoritative newcomer Heat Ring whose two labeled AI corsairs use normal inputs, collide under the one shared lethal law, and release only their real, conserved Rival Hoard jewels. It aborts rather than faking an unsafe scene.
• Rush and Endless practice, results with exact death cause, challenge links, and a deterministic replay of the final six seconds.
• An installable PWA baseline with an offline Practice shell and honest offline handling for the network-only Live Lab.
• A small authoritative WebSocket service with connection admission, message rate limits, join deadlines, heartbeat cleanup, deterministic bots, and a single-room reconnect identity.
• Reproducible social-card generation from actual gameplay, with verification of its dimensions and page metadata.

This is a public-preview candidate, not a claim of mature-game scale, proven retention, virality, or revenue. Multi-instance room routing, sustained public WAN load, external-human comprehension, accessibility passes, and retention measurement remain launch gates.

Run locally

corepack pnpm install
corepack pnpm dev

In a second terminal, start the authoritative arena:

corepack pnpm --dir server install
corepack pnpm --dir server start

Local multiplayer defaults to ws://127.0.0.1:8080. A production build derives the same-origin wss://<host>/arena endpoint unless VITE_ARENA_WS_URL is set. The client displays LIVE only after a valid authority welcome and fresh server snapshot. Reconnect identity remains in the current tab's sessionStorage.

Verification

corepack pnpm typecheck
corepack pnpm test
corepack pnpm test:soak
corepack pnpm build
corepack pnpm test:e2e
corepack pnpm test:e2e:performance
corepack pnpm test:e2e:pwa
corepack pnpm test:e2e:multiplayer
corepack pnpm --dir server typecheck
corepack pnpm --dir server test
corepack pnpm --dir server test:load
corepack pnpm icons:generate
corepack pnpm og:generate
corepack pnpm og:verify
corepack pnpm seo:verify

The DigitalOcean deployment record and isolation checks live under deploy/. The application was first proven on its starter domain; the Wormifi apex and www alias were declared only after the public HTTPS/WSS/mobile/replay gate passed.

Design and operating documents

• docs/FIRST-50-AUTONOMOUS-ACQUISITION.md — the current traffic-first law, owned acquisition engine, measurement boundary, and external-identity blockers.
• docs/CURRENT-COMPETITOR-BENCHMARK.md — current category evidence, player complaint patterns, the 100-point scorecard, and launch-versus-later choices.
• docs/GROUND-FOOD-AND-POWER-SYSTEM.md — the fair pirate-treasure architecture, including the ideas accepted, transformed, postponed, and rejected.
• docs/MULTIPLAYER-RELIABILITY-AND-SCALING-GATE.md — authority, load, abuse, reconnect, and multi-instance boundaries.
• docs/SMOOTHNESS-RELEASE-GATE.md — the production-bundle canvas, input, long-task, heap, ground-stability, and snapshot-cadence release gate.
• docs/SEO-AND-ANALYTICS-HANDOFF.md — crawl assets, consent-gated GA4 event contract, Search Console launch steps, and the remaining owner-only setup.
• docs/WORMATE-PARITY-GATE.md — proof required before any parity or superiority statement is allowed.
• deploy/DIGITALOCEAN-PREVIEW.md — isolated deployment and public proof order.

Product boundaries

• No copied Wormate artwork, copy, sounds, maps, skins, UI, branding, or code.
• No Stripe, ads, store, paid randomness, hostile input effects, screen blinding, invincibility, or pay-to-win systems before gameplay acceptance.
• Practice bots are labeled. Live rooms separately label humans and AI.
• Fire Your Coworkers is a separate production application and is not modified, updated, or reused by this project or its deployment spec.