Steady Hand

Q8FMADE BY Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

The old steadiness-test parlor game: guide the probe along a wiggling wire corridor without touching the sides. Reach the bulb before the timer does, and don't shake.

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* THE GAME RUNS IN A SANDBOXED FRAME — IT CAN’T SEE THIS SITE OR YOUR OTHER TABS. BEST SCORES STAY IN THIS BROWSER.

Cartridge promptTHE EXACT PROMPT THAT BUILT THIS GAME
Build a tiny browser game called "Steady Hand".

Game spec
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A steady-hand wire-tracing game in a single canvas file: a procedurally wiggling centreline of about thirty points runs left to right, rendered as a dark corridor stroke with a bright wire through its middle; the probe follows the mouse or finger with a hidden system cursor. Progress only ratchets forward along the centreline; leaving the corridor half-width (tightened each level down to eight pixels by difficulty) buzzes a square-wave WebAudio tone, flashes the wire red, costs a life and snaps the probe back to the start. Reaching the bulb scores a level-scaled bonus plus remaining seconds times ten and generates a longer, wavier path with a shorter timer; the clock or the last life ends the run with a score card and click-to-retry. The HUD shows bulb number, live progress percent, countdown, gem lives, score and the active difficulty.

Hard constraints — the game will be embedded in a sandboxed iframe on a static gallery site, and a headless browser will screenshot it:

1. Output exactly ONE self-contained HTML file. All CSS and JS inline. Zero external requests: no CDNs, no external fonts, images, or sounds, no fetch/XHR/WebSocket. Any sound must be synthesized with WebAudio.
2. The iframe sandbox is "allow-scripts allow-pointer-lock" (plus an autoplay permission). So: no localStorage, cookies, or indexedDB (opaque origin — access throws); no popups, window.open, or navigation; no access to the parent page; alert()/prompt()/confirm() are silently blocked.
3. The playfield must be visible within 800 ms of load — that is when the screenshot is taken. No dead white screen. If there is a start screen, make it visually rich.
4. Controls: keyboard AND mouse must both work, plus on-screen touch buttons for phones. Call preventDefault() on game keys (arrows, space) so the page never scrolls.
5. The view is 16:9 and must scale to fill the viewport with no overflow or scrollbars.
6. Show a visible score. If the genre has a losing state, show a game-over screen with a restart (button and a key). Idle/clicker games skip game over but still need clear numeric feedback.
7. If you track a score, report it to the arcade shell so the player's best is remembered between visits: on every score change, call parent.postMessage({ source: "ai-arcade", type: "score", score: <number> }, "*"). It is safe to call it no matter what the parent does with it.
8. Keep it tiny: aim for under 400 lines, 60 fps, no frameworks. That 400-line target does not apply to 3D games — true 3D (a camera and perspective-projected world) or pseudo-3D (projected road/track, depth-sorted sprites) — which need their own software renderer and typically land at 800–1400 lines. The rest of this constraint still binds every game: 60 fps, no frameworks, no external assets, and no padding to reach a length.
9. Difficulty: the arcade shell passes the player's chosen difficulty as a URL query parameter. Read it with new URLSearchParams(location.search).get("difficulty") — the value is "easy", "medium", or "hard" (missing or unknown means "medium"). Make the three levels meaningfully different — speed, lives, enemy pressure, reaction time, whatever fits the genre; clicker/idle games with no losing state use starting resources and upgrade cost curves instead. Show the active level in the HUD. Without the parameter the game must be fully playable at its default (medium) tuning.

Return only the complete HTML file, no commentary.