Wear OS game
PulseMaze
a maze, on your wrist
Tilt your watch. The ball rolls. Get it to the ring before the person next to you notices you're playing a game.
Try before you wrist
Here's the whole game.
Same maze, same physics, bigger screen. On a phone, tap use tilt and lean the handset around. On a laptop, move your pointer across the board and the ball rolls that way — or click the board first and steer with the arrow keys.
The timer starts the moment the ball does. A fresh maze every reset, so nobody can memorise their way to a good time.
Tilt, drag or arrow-key the dot to the ring.
On the watch
Built for a screen
the size of a stamp.
Your wrist is the joystick
The watch's accelerometer reads how you're holding your arm and gravity does the rest. Nothing to press, nothing to swipe over.
A new maze every time
Mazes are generated on the spot, so there's no level list to grind and no route to memorise. Just the next one.
You feel the walls
Every bump lands as a small buzz, so you can steer by feel when you can't quite look at your wrist.
A round takes seconds
This is a lift-queue game, a kettle game, a waiting-for-the-bus game. Raise your wrist, solve one, put your arm down.
Phone stays in your pocket
It runs on the watch itself. No companion app to install, nothing to pair, nothing to sign in to.
No accounts, no adverts
Nobody needs a login to play a maze. Your times stay on your watch.
How a round goes
Three moves, then you're in.
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Raise your wrist
The maze is already there. The ball sits in the top-left corner, waiting.
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Tip your arm
Lean the watch in the direction you want the ball to go. Lean harder and it accelerates; flatten out and it coasts to a stop.
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Land it in the ring
Get the ball to the target and the round ends with your time. Then, inevitably, one more go.
Where the name comes from
Every wall you clip sends a pulse out from the point of contact — on screen and through the case. Play badly enough and the whole thing thrums like a pinball table.
Not out yet
PulseMaze is still
being wobbled.
It's headed for Wear OS watches with an accelerometer, which is all of them. Until it lands, the demo above is the real thing in a bigger box.