SCRIBBLE SIEGE

a notebook-margin shooter

SCRIBBLE
SIEGE

Someone got bored in class and the doodles fought back. Erase waves of red-pen monsters, hold out in a zombie-filled detention hall, or settle it with your friends online or over LAN, all drawn in biro on ruled paper.

PLAY NOW free · runs in your browser, nothing to install
  • 6 modes
  • 9 weapons
  • 16 skins
  • 14 achievements
  • 3 maps
First-person view: an LMG tearing through a crowd of red-pen doodles
wave 5 · the LMG has opinions

about the game

Scribble Siege is a fast first-person shooter where everything is a doodle: the city is sketched in blue biro, the enemies are angry scribbles in red pen, and every gun looks like it was drawn in the back of a maths book.

You move like you've had too much sugar. Double jump, wall jump, slide, air dash and swing around on a grappling hook. Mix that with three gun classes, a katana that can block and reflect shots, grenades and a dash-slash, and every round turns into a scramble across rooftops.

It runs straight in the browser, with no account and no install beyond a tiny local server. Your character, loadout, skins and achievement progress are saved in your browser.

Running across the rooftops of Scribble City
rooftops of Scribble City
Slashing a doodle with the katana
the katana chains three slashes

meet the doodles

GRUNTthe everyday scribble. Walks at you, bites.
DASHERsmall, fragile and very, very fast.
SPITTERhangs back and spits ink from range.
BRUTEa huge scribble that takes a whole magazine.
PAPER PLANEdive-bombs you from above.
ZOMBIE & CRAWLERgreen ink, only in zombies mode.

game modes

Solo waves

WAVES solo or co-op with friends

Survive endless waves of doodles on Scribble City. Every wave is bigger and nastier than the last, so see how far you get on your own or with friends.

Zombies round banner

ZOMBIES solo or co-op with friends

Round-based horde mode in Detention Hall. Earn points, unlock nine classrooms, buy wall guns, gamble on the mystery box and drink perks.

Free-for-all

FREE-FOR-ALL with friends

Everyone against everyone. First to the score limit, or most erasers when the clock runs out.

Teams on Dust Jacket

TEAMS with friends

Red pen vs blue pen. Your outfit takes your team's colour so you can always tell who's who. Most team erasers wins.

Capture the flag

CAPTURE THE FLAG with friends

Grab their flag, run it home, score. You can only score while your own flag is safe at base, so sometimes you have to go get it back first.

The lobby

CUSTOM RULES room lobby

The lobby leader tunes everything: map, time and score limits, damage, headshots only, low gravity, infinite ammo, weapon sets and more. Plus a Spotify listening party.

zombies, in more detail

  • Points: 10 per hit, 60 per kill, 100 for a headshot kill, 130 for a melee kill.
  • Doors: press F to spend points and open the Library, Locker Room, Cafeteria, Gym, Courtyard, Boiler Room, Roof Garden and more.
  • Wall guns: buy a shotgun or sniper off the wall, then buy again for ammo at half price.
  • Mystery box: 950 points for a random gun. Get one you already have and it comes back printed with 1.6× damage. If the teddy bear shows up, the box moves.
  • Perks: INKJUG doubles your health and DOUBLE TAP makes your guns hit 1.5× harder.
  • Power-ups: MAX AMMO, INSTA-KILL and DOUBLE POINTS drop from zombies.
The mystery box
the mystery box
Opening the library door
opening the library

maps

Scribble City

The big open one, with rooftops, stairs and long streets. Waves are always played here, and it's on the list for FFA, teams and CTF.

Dust Jacket

Tight and walled in: three lanes (Long, Mid and Tunnels) between two mirrored bases. Built for teams and capture the flag.

Detention Hall

The zombies map. Nine classrooms behind locked doors, and the zombies only come from rooms you've opened.

the armory

You carry one gun from each class plus your melee. Pick which in the locker; your choice is saved. Every gun has its own model, reload and inspect animation.

1 LIGHT

Rifle
the all-rounder. Full auto, 30-round mag.
Battle rifle
slower and harder-hitting.
MAC
very fast, short range.

2 MEDIUM

Shotgun
pump action, 6 shells.
Snub shotgun
two barrels. Huge up close, useless at range.

3 HEAVY

Sniper
scoped and pierces through doodles.
LMG
75-round belt. Slows you down, long reload.
Launcher
lobs a shell that bursts where it lands.

4 MELEE

Katana
chain three slashes. Hold aim to block and reflect shots.
Quick melee
V for one slash, then straight back to your gun.
Dash-slash
both mouse buttons once the gauge is full.
The launcher
launcher
The shotgun
shotgun
The battle rifle
battle rifle

the locker

Skins are cosmetic only, with the same damage and the same speed. Every one except the stock look is earned through an achievement. A gun skin belongs to its class slot, so whatever your light slot wears goes on whichever light gun you carry.

up close

Legendary and mythic skins come with their own inspect animation (press F), tracers to match and, for mythics, shot sparks and sound.

Gold Star battle rifle
GOLD STAR
Gel Pen Galaxy LMG
GEL PEN GALAXY
Glow in the Dark shotgun
GLOW IN THE DARK
Blueprint launcher
BLUEPRINT

your character

Click ✎ character on the main menu to pick a hat, face, outfit, colours and something for your back: beanies, crowns, top hats, cat ears, capes, wings and more. Other players see your look in online matches.

The character editor
the character editor

achievements

Fourteen achievements, twelve of them with a skin on the end. Most count in any mode; a few need solo play. Open ★ achievements on the main menu to see your progress.

how to play

the basics

  1. Hit START for solo waves, ZOMBIES for the horde mode, or PLAY WITH FRIENDS to make or join a room.
  2. Erase doodles before they reach you. Headshots count for more, and your health is the striped bar bottom-left.
  3. Keep moving. Slide into a jump, wall-jump off buildings and grapple onto rooftops. Standing still is how you get bitten.
  4. Pick your three guns and skins in the 🗡 locker between matches.
  5. Tune difficulty, mouse sensitivity, crosshair, killcam, HUD size and volume in ⚙ settings.
The main menu
the main menu

controls

WASDmove
mouselook
Shiftsprint
Spacejump · double jump · wall jump
Cslide · air dash
QEgrapple: tap to swing, hold to reel
LMBfire · slash
RMBaim · block with melee
1–4light · medium · heavy · melee
Rreload
Finspect · buy (zombies)
Vquick melee
Ggrenade (hold to throw further)
LMB+RMBdash-slash with melee out
Tabscoreboard
Esc Mpause · mute

tips from the margins

get the game

Play it right in your browser with the PLAY NOW button: make a room, send friends the invite link, done. Or run the game on your own PC, which also lets friends on the same WiFi join you.

1 · download

Grab the code from GitHub, either as a ZIP or with git.

⬇ download ZIP view on GitHub

2 · install Node.js

The game's little server runs on Node.js. Install it once if you don't have it.

3 · start it

Windows: double-click start-server.bat. The first time it installs what it needs.

Anywhere: npm install once, then npm run serve.

Then open http://localhost:5173.

playing with friends

Click PLAY WITH FRIENDS, CREATE a room (a password is optional) and send friends the invite link it shows. On your own PC that link uses your WiFi address, like http://192.168.1.20:5173/#K7QMP.

If Windows asks whether Node.js can use the network, allow it on private networks.