Cinder Flight
One-tap 3D flyer: steer a dragon through lava-cracked pillars, bank flame orbs for a pillar-smashing Flame Blast and survive eight changing skies.
- genre
- Arcade flyer
- engine
- Three.js
- status
- playable
- input
- keyboard · mouse · touch · gamepad
- controls
- Tap / click / Space flap · F flame blast · P pause · M sound
- year
- 2026
- runs on
- any modern browser
Opens in a new tab.
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Devlog
A one-tap flyer in 3D: Cinder flaps when you tap, gravity does the rest, and the volcanic pillars keep coming. Everything in the world, from the dragon to the trees, is built from code at load time. It opens in its own tab, full size.
- A curve that keeps squeezing. Each point raises the scroll speed (155 up to 270), narrows the gap between pillars (236 down to 165) and pulls them closer together. Some pillars drift up and down; basalt ones smoulder.
- Flame orbs and the Flame Blast. Orbs float in the gaps. Every three charge one Flame Blast (
For the flame button) that smashes the next pillar for a bonus point. - Eight skies. The world changes every 30 points: Golden Valley, Amber Afternoon, Sunset Ridge, Thunderstorm, Ashfall, Night of Embers and Blood Moon, then Inferno from 200 on.
- Medals at 10, 25, 50 and 100: Spark, Blaze, Inferno and Elder Wyrm. Three dragon colours to pick from, and the best score is saved locally.
- Light on phones. Touch devices start with a lighter render budget, and if frames drop under about 45 fps the game lowers its resolution, then turns off shadows.
- Gamepad too: A flaps, Start pauses.
Screenshots
Changelog
- v1.0 · 2026-10-28 · First build in the lab: eight stages, medals, Flame Blast, three dragon colours, music and sound effects.
Built with
- Three.js r128 (WebGL) with procedural meshes, shipped with the game
- Web Audio for the music and sound effects (synthesised at runtime)
- The lab bridge (
lab-bridge.js) for gamepad input and the mute setting
Credits & licences
- Code, art and sound: original work, made for Dunora Labs. [EDIT: licence for the game code, e.g. MIT or all rights reserved]
- Three.js: three.js authors, MIT License
- Bungee font: David Jonathan Ross, SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Nunito font: Vernon Adams, Cyreal and Jacques Le Bailly, SIL Open Font License 1.1