Wireman

Play:

Maximise Touch: tap anywhere to fire a wire at that point — hands alternate · Keyboard: click to fire a wire; no keyboard needed

About:

Wireman was a Flash game on leetest.com, the portal that ran from 2006 to 2009. It is the only game from that whole site preserved anywhere — a single 36KB file in the Flashpoint archive, with seven music tracks it streamed from a domain that has been dead for years. Both the game and its music were recovered and are served from here now.

This is the real thing, emulated with Ruffle, rather than a rebuild. It sits on this shelf — which is otherwise for games written for touch — because Wireman is the rare Flash game that needs no keyboard at all: its entire input is a mouse click, and a tap is a click. So it plays on a phone exactly as it did in 2007, with nothing added and nothing taken away.

He is a physics ragdoll and the wires are rope constraints, which is why he swings the way he does, and why he is drawn as lines.

Credits:

Made by Leetest.com, 2007. Written for Leetdom, and it lives here.

Phone check: 2026-09-08: retrospective review - reconfirmed on a simulated phone with real CDP touch events through Ruffle: repeated taps at alternating points fired wires and swung the ragdoll, with the game's own distance counter climbing from 0.54 to 2.10 metres as direct proof. No third-party analytics found.

Tags:

platformer · physics · one more go