WenWare by @underpaid_mom

Puzzle, Exploration · Codex

WenWare

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Works on phones and computers

Each game is five timed rounds. You stand inside a 360-degree scene, such as a riverside reed harvest or a crowd gathered beneath Uluru, and read the clues in the clothing, buildings and landscape. Then you drop a pin on the map, set the year on a timeline and submit, and the game draws a line to the real spot and shows your distance and year errors with a short article about the event. Single-player mode needs no account, while ranked and party modes ask you to sign in. Works on phones and computers.

How the creator made it

The creator made WenWare for Vibe Jam 2026 using Codex 5.5 and Three.js, with GPT Image 2 for the historical panoramas. After the jam they redesigned the site, added a scene archive and made an atlas for browsing scenes by place and time. They later added a panorama generator that starts from a Wikipedia article and can use reference images.

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