Support

Harbor Light is made by Spaikz LLC. Email support@spaikz.com and we'll answer within a couple of days.

How do I play?

The first night walks you through it. In short: keep the boats coming home lit, so they can see the rocks.

• The beam: tap or drag anywhere on the sea and the lamp swings to point there. Let go and it holds there a moment, then the clockwork keeps it turning slowly.
• The rings: each boat has a ring. Light fills it; the dark drains it. While it has light left, the boat follows the safe channel home. When it runs out, the ring turns red and the boat steers straight for the harbor, rocks or not. A dotted red line shows where it's heading.
• Foghorn: guides every boat near the lighthouse for a moment and shows them through the fog. It uses a little oil and needs a few seconds before the next blast. (On a keyboard: H or the space bar.)
• Flares: tap Flare, then tap the water. It lights that patch of sea for a few seconds, for a boat the beam can't reach in time. You get a few each night. (Keyboard: F.)
• Oil: the lamp burns it all night. Every supply boat that docks adds more. If it runs out, the beam dims and reaches half as far.
• Sweeps: a beam held steady fills a ring fastest. Swing it quickly across several boats and each one in the sweep gets a burst of light, more the longer the chain, and you score for it.
• Maydays: after a wreck the crew is in the water (an orange raft, flashing), and sometimes a boat's engine fails and it drifts toward the rocks (SOS). Hold the light on them until their ring fills: the lifeboat crew has found them, and the lifeboat goes out to rescue the crew or tow the boat home. A rescued crew wins your life buoy back. A raft drifts out of sight after half a minute.
• Smugglers: boats with no lights. Catch one in the beam for a bounty.
• Life buoys: each wreck costs one. Lose them all and the night is over. Make it to dawn, or bring every boat in, to win. Three stars for a night with no boat lost (a rescued crew counts back).
• Upgrades: every night pays coins (a tenth of your score when you make it to dawn, a twentieth when you don't). Spend them under Upgrade the lighthouse on the title screen or after a night.
• Pause any time with the button at the top right (or Esc / P).

Where is my progress saved?

On your device: stars, best scores, coins and lighthouse upgrades. There's no account, so progress doesn't move between devices. Clearing this website's data in your browser resets it.

There's no sound

Sound starts after your first tap (phones and browsers require that). Check the speaker button in the top bar (or press M), your device's volume, and on iPhone the silent switch.

The game is slow or choppy

The sea, the light and the fog are drawn with WebGL 2, and the game lowers its own detail if the device can't keep up. Close other tabs and apps, and keep the browser up to date. If a device can't run WebGL 2, the game says so when it starts. Tell us which device it is.

Something else

Bugs, ideas and questions all go to support@spaikz.com. Say which device you're on and, for a bug, which night and what happened just before.