You play Rupert Flintwhistle, a hopeless would-be pirate captain, in a point-and-click comedy in the style of early-1990s adventure games: pick one of nine verbs such as Look at, Pick up or Talk to, then click something in the scene. It opens on a moonlit dock in Port Mildew beside a ship called the Leaky Tuna, where even looking at a seagull earns a joke, and the creator's page lists six parts of 30 to 60 minutes each. It first came out as Scallywag Isle, and it plays free on Wavedash without an account. Best on a computer: it needs a mouse.
How the creator made it
The creator says the first version came from one prompt to Opus 5.5 in Claude Code. They had the game draw its backgrounds and characters, animate them and generate the music and effects in code while it runs. By the third part, the creator says it all fit into one HTML file of about 880 KB.
From their post on X ↗, another post on X ↗ and a page on wavedash.com ↗.
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