A hand-built vanilla-JS canvas platformer set in a comedic Wild West — seven acts, procedural parallax backgrounds, and a boss fight.
West Whirled is a browser platformer written from scratch in vanilla JavaScript on the HTML5 canvas — no engine, no build step.
Highlights
- Seven acts (training, Ghost Gulch, the Aetherite Mines, the Foundry and more) chained into a single storyline
- Procedural parallax backgrounds with per-level themes
- Camera easing, squash-and-stretch, hit-stop and touch controls for mobile
- Sprite pipeline trimmed from 40 MB to under 8 MB shipped
Play it directly in the browser — works on desktop and mobile.