Ice Island — free browser game

Ice Island is a side-view balance game: small penguins waddle left and right on a floating chunk of ice, and each one's weight pulls the slab. The slab's tilt is set by the **collective centre of mass** of all penguins — when they're spread near the middle the slab sits flat, when most cluster on one side it tips that way. The bar at the top shows where the centre of mass sits (the green band is safe; once the dot drifts toward an edge the slab is close to capsizing). Your only intervention is to click a penguin: a green halo lights up over it and it walks **straight toward the slab's centre point**, then resumes free wandering once it arrives. If the slab tilts past about 6°, free-walking penguins start **sliding downhill** — positive feedback that makes the game accelerate; if the tilt ever exceeds 28°, the slab capsizes and the run ends. You earn **+10 points per second** alive; every ~9 seconds a new penguin lands (up to 9 total), making balance progressively harder. Penguins bounce gently off the slab edges — nobody falls off, the only way to lose is to let the centre of mass push the slab past the danger angle. Tips: (1) Don't pull back the closest penguin to the centre — pull back the one **furthest out** that's dragging the centre of mass. (2) When the warning tint kicks in, recall two penguins back-to-back; a single one often isn't enough to recover. (3) Newcomers always land on the side opposite the current centre of mass; use that brief breathing room to set up. Your best score is saved in your browser.