# dgreenheck/tidewater

> 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.

- Magnitude: 6.0 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 168 total · +60 stars today, ≈ 138 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: JavaScript · License: MIT · Created: 2026-09-23 · Last push: 2026-09-24
- GitHub: https://github.com/dgreenheck/tidewater · Homepage: https://dgreenheck.github.io/tidewater/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/dgreenheck/tidewater

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 60 stars so far today, about 138 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 168 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #121.
- About 108 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 39
- Issues and pull requests: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 126 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 24

## Stars per day, last 5 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-20 … 2026-09-24: 0, 0, 0, 113, 60

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #121

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-24 09:22 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.