Glimmerline

Glimmerline is a puzzle game about a small workshop with a big week. The village festival needs lanterns — dyed, trimmed, doubled, sorted, and strung just so — and every commission arrives as a charcoal sketch pinned to your corkboard. Between the sketch and the night sky stands your pulley line, and what you hang on it.

Ten brass contraptions, infinite arrangements

• Dye basins recolor every lantern of one shade; snuffer bells pluck a color off the line entirely.
• Paper presses unfold one lantern into two; knotting jigs merge matching neighbours; twin looms double a string in place.
• Sorting forks, turnabout pulleys, hook arms, tail shears, counting gates — each device does one honest thing, and the order you hang them changes everything.

Your lantern string rides the line station by station, and the live preview under every hook shows it mid-transformation — when the line goes wrong, you can see exactly where. It's function composition you can hold in your hands, though the game would never use those words.

Par is a candle

Every commission's worktable has a candle stub that melts one notch per device hung. Finish before it gutters and the commission is sealed in wax — up to three seals for a perfectly economical line. Thirty-six commissions across six festival nights introduce one new device at a time, ramping from "hang a basin" to finale puzzles that demand every trick in the workshop. No timers, no fail state — just you, the sketch, and a better line waiting to be found.

The Night-Market Commission

Once a day, the night market posts a seeded commission — every player gets the same sketch and the same shelf. Fewest devices wins the leaderboard, streaks reward showing up, and the share card frames your released lanterns rising over the rooftops. Quiet, clever, and entirely yours to untangle, in your browser. No download, no install.