A campground for your cursor.

A single Neal.fun page whose protagonist is the mouse pointer. Open the URL, summon a radial wheel of cursor variants, drag them around an animated camp — no account, no install, no monetisation, about five minutes from open to closed.

Neal.fun has been quietly running the best single-page web-toy studio on the internet for ten years — Stimulation Clicker, Internet Roadtrip, Asteroid Launcher, Spend Bill Gates’ Money. Cursor Camp is the latest in the lineage: a softly-illustrated campground, and a radial wheel of cursor variants that orbits your pointer on demand. Click to summon, drag to play.

The trick is that the cursor is the protagonist, not the input device. Variants include a wand, a comet, a magnifying glass, a fishing rod, and about a dozen more, each with its own behaviour against the campground props — tents, fire pits, a lily-padded lake. Two minutes uncovers most; the variety is the whole point.

The infrastructure for this kind of thing barely exists anymore. Every other vendor of micro-entertainment is trying to graduate you to a subscription, an account, or an email capture. Neal’s whole catalog ships under the older rules: one URL, no signup, no ads, no app. Cursor Camp is proof that those rules still produce work worth forwarding to a friend.

Desktop only — phones don’t have cursors. Five minutes from open to closed; rewards re-visits less than some of Neal’s earlier pieces (Internet Roadtrip, which you can lose hours to). But that’s the brief: a small thing made well, free, and gone before you’ve started checking your phone.