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Single-file HTML5 constellation combat

CUT THE GRAPH.
OWN THE SKY.

Warkel's Node Wars is not a board of tiles. It is a living star map. Walk an edge. Burn a link. Capture a rival. Echo the same bounce and the line dies behind you. One HTML file. Zero installs. Instant browser play — then skin it, stamp your brand on it, and sell it as yours.

Pure HTML / CSS / JS Works offline 4 operatives CPU + hotseat Re-Brander included

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Warkel's Node Wars in-game constellation board
IN-GAME // 5x5 lattice, relays pulsing, four factions hunting degrees

HOW THE WAR WORKS

Twenty-five stars. King-move connections, then a handful of edges cut so the map stays tense and connected. You exist only on nodes. The fight is the graph.

MOVE OR BURN

Each turn you walk exactly one remaining edge — or delete a link to an empty star. You cannot burn your last escape. Land on a rival to capture them. The node goes dark.

RELAYS + ECHO

Magenta relays grant one extra step (never a burn). Reverse the exact edge you just used and it collapses — ping-pong is suicide. Stillness pulses shear spare links if the fight goes quiet.

NO FOREVER MATCH

Isolated at turn start? Stranded. A quiet clock and a hard horizon force an ending. Last living operative with a remaining edge holds the constellation.

IT IS HTML. THAT IS THE SUPERPOWER.

Node Wars ships as a single .html file. Open it in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or a WebView wrapper. No Steamworks. No runtime. No app store tax unless you want one. Host it, email it, drop it on itch, embed it on a landing page, or wrap it in Electron / Tauri / a cheap Android WebView and ship a store build.

PLAYS ANYWHERE A BROWSER LIVES

Laptops, classroom Chromebooks, kiosk PCs, itch.io embeds, Gumroad file drops, newsletter bonuses, QR codes at events. Sound, CPU speed, and human/CPU mix are already in the HUD.

YOU OWN THE FILE

Edit the title. Change the factions. Recolor the sky. Tune lattice size, relays, stillness, and horizon. Then generate a fresh copy with the Windows Re-Brander and sell that copy under your studio name.

WHY PEOPLE BUY THIS

UNIQUE HOOK

Graph combat is rare in casual HTML. Players feel smart the first time they burn a corridor or bait an echo collapse. That "aha" is what streams and screenshots are for.

FAST SESSION

Matches resolve. Horizon and stillness stop infinite stalling. Perfect for itch game jams, streamer breaks, classroom tournaments, and "one more constellation" loops.

FOUR-WAY DRAMA

Hotseat four humans or mix CPU hunters. Capture, isolate, pulse. Spectator-friendly colors. Easy to commentate. Easy to clip.

ZERO FRICTION DEMO

Send a link. They are playing in one click. That conversion path beats a 2 GB installer every day of the week.

BRANDABLE ASSET

The Re-Brander is a Windows tool: names, palette, lore, logo, rules sliders, then export a playable folder. Your cat logo. Your studio line. Your storefront.

KEEP SELLING COPIES

One purchase of the pack becomes many products: default Node Wars, seasonal skins, school editions, client-branded giveaways, bundle filler, mailing-list bait.

WAYS TO MONETIZE

1. SELL THE GAME ITSELF

List node_war.html on Gumroad, itch, Payhip, or your own checkout. Price a "supporter" tier with extra palettes. Bundle with other Warkel tools. Offer a classroom / site license.

2. RE-BRAND AND RESELL

Use Node-War_Re-Brander_Tool.exe to stamp a client's name, colors, and logo. Deliver a folder they can host. Charge a flat skin fee or a monthly "new constellation" retainer.

3. ADS AROUND THE FILE

Embed the game iframe on a content site and run display / video ads in the chrome (never inside the canvas if you want a clean premium feel). Or gate the HTML behind an email capture and sell the list.

4. SPONSORS + SKINS

A brewery, a LAN, a Discord, a merch drop — they get a constellation in their colors. You keep the engine. They pay for the night sky with their name on it.

5. WRAP AND SHIP STORES

WebView / PWA / itch desktop wrapper. Paid app store listing plus the same file on the web. Two storefronts, one codebase.

6. LIVE EVENTS

Project the board. Four players on one machine (4 Humans mode). Entry fee, stream donations, merch QR on the pause of the win banner.

THE RE-BRANDER — WINDOWS, SIMPLE, DONE

Point, type, pick colors, generate. No hand-editing 700 lines of JS unless you want to. The template is compiled into a single EXE.

Node War Rebrand Tool Windows editor
NODE-WAR_RE-BRANDER_TOOL.EXE // title, factions, lore, studio line, then export a playable folder
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BUY ONCE. GENERATE FOREVER.

The HTML game plus the Re-Brander is a product machine: play it tonight, white-label it tomorrow, put ads around it on Friday. Cut the graph. Keep the receipts.

Purchase Warkel's Node Wars

Includes node_war.html template · Node-War_Re-Brander_Tool.exe · commercial use of generated copies subject to the license you buy