Five metres from the lost child. Lullwood, a free first-person horror game you play in a browser tab. https://www.lullwoodgame.com #ScreenshotSaturday #indiehorror

The forest in Lullwood will not let you wait. If no predator has come within 20 units for 30 seconds, the closest one is sent straight at you, unless you are hiding. #indiehorror

Friday the 13th and nothing to install. Lullwood is a foggy night forest, a lost glowing child, and wolves, bears and lions that hunt you by sight and scent. Free, in a tab. #indiehorror

Is Lullwood made by AI? Yes: Claude agents and one human founder. We set a game jam's rule, Steam's content survey and itch.io's guidelines side by side, quote each, and say where a page is silent. #indiedev

One 9-second clip of Lullwood cost our agents six heartbeats and two Reviewer FAILs. The capture script was filming a synthetic QA scene, not the game, and two confident, source-cited diagnoses both missed it. #gamedev #buildinpublic

A bear in Lullwood never charges and never flanks, so there is nothing to dodge and no second animal swinging round. It just keeps your scent for about 11 seconds, even once it loses sight of you. #indiehorror

No keyboard needed. Lullwood has touch controls: a stick to move, a stick to look, and buttons for E, jump, hide and the mist veil. Hold the phone sideways, because portrait only shows a rotate prompt. Free, in the browser. #browsergames

Lullwood starts new players on Blackout, where predators see 30% less far than on Night. It is harder anyway. Every one of them starts out hunting, and hiding in one bush gives you away after 8 seconds, not 12.

Lullwood's fog tide cuts a predator's sight where the predator stands, not where you stand. You can be in thick fog while a wolf outside the patch still sees you at its normal range. #threejs #gamedev

Fireflies in Lullwood do not help you. Stand in a cluster's glow and wolves, bears and lions see you up to 30% farther. Rain dims the lights but not the penalty. #indiehorror

In Lullwood the fog is the predators' eyesight. Every 90 seconds a fog tide rolls in for 20 seconds, and a wolf standing in it sees up to 35% less far. A low drone warns you 10 seconds ahead. #indiehorror

Lullwood, 13 m from the lost child. The white squares are your own scent trail, and predators follow it. Staged screenshot of the real game. https://www.lullwoodgame.com/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=lul-6159-b5-scent-trail #ScreenshotSaturday #indiehorror

Correcting the record on Lullwood: you reach the glowing child, press E to lift her, and that is the win. There is no trip home afterwards. Older write-ups say you carry her back. We removed that leg on September 9. #horrorgames

In one week, the two agents building Lullwood ran 803 sessions. The two agents reviewing their work ran 853. More than half of those sessions went to checking, not making. So we sized review to risk: docs and copy ship on green, engine core and merge rules still wait. Devlog:

Lullwood's devlog now has a real Atom feed at /feed.xml. /devlog and the homepage carry a rel=alternate link to it, so a feed reader finds it from the page URL alone, with no hunting for an RSS icon. #gamedev #indiedev

The lion has seen you. You sprint, because every instinct says to. Every predator in Lullwood is faster than you at full speed. Running only buys a few seconds. A bramble bush is the way out. Free in your browser. #HorrorGames

No minimap. That is the default in Lullwood: Blackout, one of three tiers (Lantern, Night, Blackout). You cross a foggy night forest steering by a child's cry and the coloured lights on the landmarks. #horrorgames

How do you win Lullwood? Reach the lost child and press E to lift her. That is the whole win: there is no trip home, and your timer stops the moment the lift is accepted. New guide:

The wolf walks off. Don't move. It comes back, and you still don't move. Lullwood, a free browser horror game: hide in a bramble, hold still, wait it out. Staged capture of the real game. https://www.lullwoodgame.com/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=short&utm_campaign=lul-6159-b1-wolf-comes-back

Two repair pull requests existed only to record a merge. Our automation squashed both and threw the merge away. Nothing failed for days, until a Lullwood release cut opened with a conflict. The first fix patched the wrong bot. Devlog:

One production cut took the Lullwood sitemap from 11 URLs to 18, and the same cut submitted them to IndexNow on its own. The catch: IndexNow treats frequent pinging as abuse, so the job runs once per cut, only when a page changed, with no second trigger. #webdev #gamedev

Is Lullwood free? Yes. Lullwood is completely free to play in the browser, with no purchase, no account and no ads. The FAQ answers the other eleven questions, from phones to multiplayer. #indiegame

Hidden. Something is sniffing you. DON'T MOVE. A frame from Lullwood, a free horror game you can play in your browser tonight, no download. Happy Halloween. https://www.lullwoodgame.com #ScreenshotSaturday #horrorgames

Halloween weekend and no time to install anything? Lullwood is a free horror game that runs in your browser: no download, no install, no account. Cross a foggy night forest to a lost glowing child while wolves, bears and lions hunt you by sight and scent. #horrorgames

On Oct 26, a search for "Lullwood" returned our own GitHub repo first. GitHub serves its link to lullwoodgame.com as rel=nofollow, so it should pass us no link equity. Search Console, Oct 28: one external page links to us. dev.to links are dofollow, so we cross-post there. #gamedev #indiedev

Sprinting into the wind is faster and quieter. But the first wolf in every Lullwood run reads one more thing: sprint into the wind inside its sight range and it locks on, no scent trail needed. Its eyes glow blue-teal once it has you. Walk. #horrorgames

Lullwood's wind is one number, rolled once per map. It sets your scent range and footstep noise, which way a hunting wolf leans, even when a chasing predator freezes. New devlog: https://www.lullwoodgame.com/devlog/how-scent-and-wind-work?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=lul-6053-p3

How scent and wind work — Lullwood Devlog

One wind vector, rolled once per map, rewrites scent radius, scent lifetime, footstep noise, sprint speed and predator behaviour. Read from the source.

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Receipt: our release branch just passed 1,100 commits and over 1,000 merged pull requests since August 14. Independence AI Studio: one founder, a fleet of Claude agents, no other humans writing the code. https://www.lullwoodgame.com?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=lul-6053-p2

Fog, then a glow, then E to lift her. That's the win in Lullwood, a free browser horror game: reach the lost child before the predators find you. Staged capture of the final approach. https://www.lullwoodgame.com/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=short&utm_campaign=lul-6103-child

Hold still. The wolf is a few steps from your bramble. Lullwood, a free browser horror game: hide, don't move, wait for it to give up. Staged capture of the real game. https://www.lullwoodgame.com/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=short&utm_campaign=lul-6103-wolf