Lantern Pond

A multiplayer browser game template. Players fish together, chat, and keep their progress when they sign in.

See the original Start with this

fishinggame.spark.site
The Lantern Pond title screen: the game's name over a wooden dock on a pixel-art pond
The Lantern Pond title screen: the game's name over a wooden dock on a pixel-art pond

Make this your business

Tools to run the business

The template includes internal tools for players and catches.

Analytics: players, fish caught, chat and donations, catches by rarity and region, region visits and returning players

Analytics

See new players, catches by rarity and region, and who comes back.

Your first customer

Here's what a player sees when they join the pond.

  • The title screen: Lantern Pond with a Start button

    Press start

    It runs in the browser. Nothing to download.

  • Make your angler: a pixel character with outfit choices

    Make an angler

    Pick a hat, hair and outfit, and a name.

  • The harbour: shops, a pier and the player

    Walk the harbour

    Everyone online shares the same town.

  • Fishing off the pier, with the reel meter

    Go fishing

    Cast, wait for a bite, and reel it in.

Ask Spark for changes

Your template comes with the Spark agent. Ask for changes, and Spark will update your project.

  • Add a winter region with ice fishing.

  • Sell a $4 season pass with extra quests.

  • Let players decorate their own dock.

  • Run a fishing contest every Saturday with a leaderboard.

  • Players who catch a rare fish come back more. Want me to add a fish journal they fill in?

  • Should friends be able to start a private pond?

What you don't have to pay for

These are usually separate subscriptions that someone has to connect. Spark includes them in one plan.

What you'd pay for separately

  • Website builder and hosting $39/mo
  • A multiplayer game server Shared world and chat $15/mo
  • Website analytics $9/mo
  • Admin tools and a database One seat $24/mo
  • A freelance developer to connect it all 10 hours a month at $30 an hour $300/mo

Total $387/mo

With Spark Start for free

Each price is a typical small-business plan, billed monthly. Card fees apply either way.

Common questions

What does it cost?

Nothing to start, and you can publish on Spark's free plan at a spark.site address. Taking payments and using your own domain need a paid plan, from $25 a month. See pricing.

Do I get the original's customers or domain?

No, those stay with the original business, and you choose your own address.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. Ask for changes in plain words.

Who can I ask before starting?

Email support@spark.site and we'll answer.

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Start with Lantern Pond

Here's what happens when you start.

  1. It opens in your account Lantern Pond appears as a new project in Spark. New to Spark? You make an account first.
  2. Make it yours Ask Spark for your name, your look and your prices.
  3. Connect Stripe and publish Publish and your game goes live at its own address.
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