dgreenheck/tidewater

Coastal town built with Opus 5.5

Games & graphicsJavaScript

5.9 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 24, 2026, 08:35 UTC.

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About the project

A browser fishing game set on a tropical island: cast from the pier, beach or boat, fight the fish, sell your catch and buy better gear. Runs on WebGPU with its own small rendering engine, no framework.

Useful for

Play a fishing game directly in the browser without installing anything
Study the WebGPU and WGSL source for ocean, sky and water rendering
Build a static bundle locally with npm run build

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

39 stars so far today, about 111 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 1 day old and already has 145 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #139.
About 113 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 145
Today: 39 · ≈ 111 by evening
Forks: 36
Issues and pull requests: 1
Watchers: 1
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Created: September 23, 2026
Last push: September 24, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 24, 2026Top new repositories this week: #139

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