Candle Run

Play free: https://city.peakai.si/run (no download, works on phones)

A voxel platformer on the real Bitcoin daily chart. Run 200 daily candles, jump the wick spikes, slide under the resistance lasers, take the boost pads on the big green days, cross the glass planks (dojis) fast, and outrun Nirmala Taxaraman, who taxes every candle she passes 30% (she introduces herself, in her own words, before the run). Real news events stop the run for a few seconds (no skipping: read the card, hear the line, then a second to look before the run goes on): the candles they moved light up with the move written over them (Bitcoin Oct 2026: SpaceX going public on 12 Jun, Trump's Clarity Act push on 19-20 Aug and the Binance hack on 29 Oct; the June 2026 liquidations show when you drop into the volume).

Play: https://candle-run-8rz.pages.dev · part of AI Survivor City

Controls

• Keyboard: ◀ ▶ move · ▲ / W / Space jump · ▼ / S slide (hold it under lasers) · P pause · M mute · Enter start · R retry
• Phones: the runner runs by itself; ▲ jump, ▼ slide, ◀ hold back

How a chart becomes a level

• 1 candle = 1 day. The body is the platform; height is log price (a 4% rise is one easy jump).
• Upper wicks of about 2% or more become spikes; flat runs of three candles get a resistance laser at head height; a rise too big to jump gets a boost pad; a doji (body under 0.12%) is a glass plank that cracks if you stand still.
• The taxman speeds up on red candles (sell-offs) and slows down on green ones, and hurries when she falls far behind.
• tools/check_level.ts plays every level with a bot through the same physics and fails if it cannot be finished.

Make or update a level

python tools/make_level.py BTC 2026-10      # the 200 daily candles ending 31 Oct 2026 + levels_src/btc-2026-10.events.json
node tools/check_level.ts                   # prove it can be finished, show the taxman margins

Levels are frozen per month and updated at each month end.

Develop

npm install
npm run dev        # http://127.0.0.1:5190   (?bot=1 autopilot, ?seek=N start at candle N, ?hold=1 keep event pauses open, ?last=1 start in the volume, ?debug=1 read-only state in window.__cr, ?count=test mark play counts as a test)
npm run build
python tools/deploy.py

Play counts

The live game counts plays anonymously: page opened, run started, every 50th candle reached, and how and where a run ended. Each one only adds 1 to a per-day counter in functions/api/run.js. The counter stores no cookies, IDs, IP addresses or per-event rows. To tell a first run from a later one, your browser keeps a small run number (1 to 20) and sends only that number. There is no public read; python tools/counts.py prints the numbers. Our own test links are kept out of the numbers, and most automated browsers are not counted.

Code: MIT. Fonts, voices and data: see CREDITS.md. Parody characters; not financial or tax advice.