Early development
Paper Whales is in early development — some features are not fully working yet, and things may change or break.
A city made of words
Every building is built only from letters. The words on a wall are the actual words of the song or text that tower stands for, so walking past a building is a way of reading it.
Why: it keeps the city honest — nothing is decoration, everything you see came from someone's writing or music.
Ground city and sky city
The ground city grows from writing: poems, letters, essays and stories. The sky city grows from finished songs, each one floating above the writing that inspired it.
Words with no music stay readable on the ground. A song only reaches the sky once it is really finished and playable.
From an idea to a tower
You type one line in the Muse. It joins one long shared queue, the music is made with the latest AI music technology, checked, and stored so it keeps playing. Then your tower rises.
Why one queue: many players create at the same time. A single fair queue means nobody's song is made twice, and nothing is silently dropped. If something fails it retries a limited number of times and tells you why.
One radio for everyone
The city radio plays the same song for everyone at once. Tapping a beam of light puts its songs next in line. The best songs also go out on our live station.
Playing together
Other players appear as whales with name tags. You share the sky, the streets and the radio. Your own unfinished songs stay private until they are ready.
Built for phones first
The city is drawn with very few, merged shapes and a capped screen sharpness so it stays smooth on phones and foldables. If your device struggles, the city quietly lowers detail instead of stuttering.
Guests and accounts
You can explore as a guest. Creating a song needs an account, so the song has an owner. When you sign in, everything you typed is kept and you return to the same place.