Castle Gate

Castle Gate is a one-tap arcade game. You are the keeper of the royal gate.

Open it for the allies. Keep it shut for the invaders. Get the timing wrong and

the castle falls.

Three roads converge on a single gate, and everyone arrives at their own pace.

A villager walks. A rider gallops. A convoy of wagons needs the gate held open

for all four carts. The royal messenger is worth six times the points and must

never be turned away. The herbalist inverts the whole rule: open at the last

second and her vials shatter, so you have to open early for her alone.

Turn an ally away and they bounce back down the road, shoving whoever is behind

them. That is how a single mistimed tap becomes a pile-up.

Controls

Tap, click or press space. That is the whole game.

Double tap to force the gate open in an emergency.

Hold-to-open is available in the settings if you prefer it.

 What's in it

- 8-level campaign: The Simple Gate, Two Roads, The Caravan, Royal Priority,

  The Siege, The Courtyard Maze, Misty Night, Expert Mode

- Endless mode with a rolling day/night cycle

- Daily and weekly challenges, seeded by the date — everyone gets the same ones

- 42 awards, full statistics, unlockable castle themes and gate effects

- English and French, picked from your browser language

Fair by design

If an ally and an invader reach the gate at the same instant, no gate state can

satisfy both. The game never punishes you for that. A scheduler keeps opposite

arrivals apart before they even spawn, and if one slips through anyway, the

second visitor steps aside, lets the other pass, and comes back. No life lost,

no combo broken. The normal rule stays intact: an ally alone at a closed gate

still costs you.

Accessibility

Separate music, effects and ambience volumes. Colourblind mode adds an

ally/enemy badge above every visitor, on top of the already distinct

silhouettes. High contrast, three text sizes, reduced motion, hold-to-open,

remappable action key.

Everything you see is drawn with canvas code and every sound is synthesised at

runtime with the Web Audio API. There is not a single image or audio file in

the build.

This is a first public release and I would genuinely like to know where it

loses you — which level felt unfair, whether the timing reads clearly, whether

it works on your phone. Comments are open.