How to play
Draw loops on rice paper and seal your rivals in.
You are a brush racing across rice paper. Cross your own stroke to close a loop, and every ink dot inside is yours.
Loop around another brush tip to seal it out of the round. Cutting through a rival’s stroke breaks it, which is your only way out when you’re surrounded.
- Move the mouse or a finger
- The brush tip follows
- Hold left click or Space
- Speed up, costs ink
- Enter
- Play again
Related design notes
Designing Inkloop: loops, cuts and seals
Why the only way to die in Inkloop is to be enclosed, why cutting never kills, how the bots are tuned to feel human, and what changed after simulation.
Game sound with no audio files
Inkloop, Meme Brawl and Runekeep ship no audio files. Every effect and song is synthesized live with the Web Audio API. Here is how, and what it costs.
Making io games without servers
How Inkloop runs entirely offline in the browser: bots in place of other players, plain JavaScript and Canvas 2D, a fixed 60 Hz loop, and how we test it.