Inkdrop

Ink is dripping from the top of the page and you have one pan to catch it in. Move the pan under the terracotta drops to score. Grey blotches are ruined ink — catch one and you lose a life. Let a good drop hit the floor and that costs you too. Three mistakes and the page dries out. The drip gets faster and the gaps get shorter the longer you survive, so the run always ends the same way: sooner than you wanted. Drag with a mouse or finger, or steer with the arrow keys.

One self-contained HTML file. Canvas 2D, a fixed-timestep loop, and a lot of time spent tuning the fall speed against the pan's acceleration until it felt fair.