THE WAKING WOOD · GARDEN 1 OF 5
A little light
goes a long way.
A sleeping garden. A wandering spirit.
And the small wonders you leave behind.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
No rush. No danger. Just a little discovery.
The waking wood
Follow the little lightsThe Gardener's Rest
A MOMENT TO YOURSELF
Take your time.
The garden will be right here.
Your gardens are saved on this device.THE GARDEN REMEMBERS YOU
Look what a little
light can do.
Five flowers. A thousand small beginnings.
Thank you for taking the time to help them grow.
FOUR TO WANDER, AND ONE THAT WAKES LAST
Where shall we wander?
Wander the first four in any order. Starfall wakes when four gardens are awake; what you find is carried between them.
WHAT YOU HAVE CARRIED SO FAR
Your journal
The round so far
What each garden still keeps
Pip
What the light has learned
Memories
WHO MADE THIS, AND OUT OF WHAT
Credits
Made by
Mosslight was written, drawn, composed and laid out for this project. No code, artwork, audio or level design is imported from another game.
Built with
Phaser 4.2.1 · TypeScript 7.0.2 · Vite 8.1.5 · Vitest 4.1.10 · Playwright 1.62.0. Hosted on Vercel, which counts page views and nothing else.
Type
Georgia and your system's own sans-serif. Nothing is downloaded: there are no web-font requests at all.
Artwork and sound
Every platform, flower, spirit, butterfly, hollow, bench and sky in this game is drawn in Canvas 2D from a fixed palette and fixed random seeds, so the same garden appears on every machine. The whole soundtrack is generated by WebAudio oscillators and filtered noise as you play; there are no recordings, samples or music files.
The three paintings
Three of the five backdrops — the Waking Wood, Moonwater and Cloudrest — began as images from a generative model; everything else in Mosslight is drawn in code. Their prompts and provenance are recorded in the repository's ASSETS.md.
Licence
All rights reserved. Playing Mosslight, recording it, streaming it and sharing the link are welcome and need no permission.
Source
A private repository. Thank you for wandering.
A JOURNEY YOU CAN CARRY
Your save code
Take it with you
Everything you have found, written down. Keep it somewhere safe, or paste it into another browser to carry your gardens across.
Bring one back
Paste a code to continue that journey here. The gardens in the code take the place of the ones on this device.
FIVE GARDENS AWAKE
The round is
finished.
A LITTLE LIGHT, KEPT SAFE
Until your next
little wander.
Your gardens are saved. You can close this tab.
The garden is resting. No rush to return.