The game, in a browser tab
No download, no launcher, no forty-minute wait before somebody can tell whether they like it. Keyboard, mouse and a captured pointer, the way a game on their own machine would take them.
A session — press Play, then steer it
Ridgeline
Nothing to download. This is what somebody sees when they open your link.
Drawn in your browser rather than streamed from a GPU, so nobody pays for a machine every time this page is scrolled past. Everything around the picture is the real player.
A link is the whole invitation
Make a link, send it, revoke it when you are done. The key is the part after the #, which a browser never sends anywhere — so it is not sitting in a log or a cache waiting to be found.
Sending somebody a playtest
Ridgeline — playtest
One machine per person · link expires in 1 hourNo links yet. Make one and send it to whoever should play.
Everything after the # is the key, and a browser never sends that part to any server. It is not in a log, a Referer or a cache — only in the link you sent.
Stops when nobody is touching it
Idle is measured from a keyboard and a mouse, never from what is on screen — a game sitting on its menu is not somebody playing. And a machine whose input cannot be read is never guessed to be empty.
A pool, fifteen minutes later
| Machine | State | Last input | Charged for |
|---|---|---|---|
| m-01sam — playing | Ready | just now | GPU, licence and disk |
| m-02priya — walked away | Ready | 6m 20s ago | GPU, licence and disk |
| m-03— | Stopped | — | Disk only |
| m-04jo — playing | Ready | Not measured | GPU, licence and disk |
Sam is playing and Priya walked away. Fast-forward and watch which machine stops — and which one does not, because nobody could measure whether Jo is still there.
A whole GPU, not a slice
Stopped is not gone
A balance of its own
Playpute Streams is on its way.
There is nothing to sign up for yet. The rest of the platform is running today.