GLASS BOX RUNNER
A daily competitive runner where the whole world races the same course — and the backend is visible through the glass. Beat the ghost, then become one.
One world, one seed
Every UTC day a new course is derived from the date — a seeded PRNG drives every obstacle, item and boss pattern. Everyone on Earth runs the exact same track.
Race real ghosts
Your inputs (just jumps and slides) are stored in DynamoDB with your score. Pick anyone on the leaderboard and their ghost re-runs beside you, tick for tick.
Watch the database work
The glass box: live player count from TTL sessions, and the real DynamoDB write latency shown the instant your score lands. The backend is part of the game.
THE LOOP
UNDER THE GLASS
Rankings are a single Query (zero-padded score keys sort lexicographically), ghosts are input sequences of a deterministic sim, live presence is TTL-expired sessions. Designed access-pattern-first to scale to millions of runs.