AEON 4D
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The New Game
A role-playing game on a round alien world. Fourteen lands are held still at one moment, each by a spire and its guardian. Learn their creatures, borrow their forms, and set the seasons running again.
Play NowNothing to install. Made for Chrome or Edge on a computer and Chrome on Android; other browsers may not run it yet.
Its new game is live
A round world you can walk across, fly around, and pull back from until it turns below you. Every count here is read from the game itself.
Each held still at one moment by a spire and its guardian, from the Bloomwood to the Ember Wastes.
Walk beside a creature until you know it, then become it: run, leap, fly, wade, climb or wait.
The Long Look, Echo, Stillness and the W Step, which steps beside the world.
Twenty-four on the main path, and the side stories of the lands.
Oren and Pella at the Lamp House, Cairn, a warden in every land, and Vesper.
Its continents, violet seas and climates turn under a sun of their own. Zoom out to see it whole.
AEON4D's first game is still here, with a save of its own.
The Endless World
Walk an alien through every season and landscape, and four worlds no one has seen. Every tree, stone and creature is built from points of light as you walk, and the land never ends.
Its own game and its own save, apart from The Held Seasons.
The guide is made of the same points of light as everything else in the world, and it shows you so.
Every land keeps a cairn where its pad sets you down.
Talk to it, and its stones turn to points of light that rise.
The light gathers into Cairn, who tells you what the land holds, and goes back to its stones as you leave.
The next big update makes every body in the world real. It ships a phase at a time, each one measured on a phone before it goes live.
Sharper on phones, smoother skies, and no flicker far away. Live now, with more to come in this phase.
Every alien on a true skeleton, with shoulders that attach, elbows, knees and ankles. Live now.
Walking and running timed to measured human movement, feet planted on every slope, people who stroll, and eyes that blink. Live now, with more to come in this phase.
Deer on skeletons of their own that walk, trot and gallop as real deer do, and lift their heads to watch you come. Live now, with more to come in this phase.
Rabbits in the half-bound, birds that hold their heads still and then thrust, bells that pulse, serpents that wave, beetles on tripods, spiders, hovering wasps, banking drones and the tardigrade, each timed to its kind, and every land's creatures on true joints. Live now.
Ears, tails and antennae that swing as a body moves, grass that parts under every foot, and herds that answer their own: one deer looks up, the rest follow, and they run as one. Now and then one stays a while, or walks up to you. Live now.
Nearly there: every creature in every land is one body now, its legs and parts grown from it the way the alien's are, on the joints its kind really has. Spiders carry every leg on the body with the abdomen behind a waist, hoppers stand on a rabbit's skeleton, floaters trail jointed tentacles, birds bound and clap, and moths twist their wings. Last, its measure on a phone.
Each one is a real engine with real work running on it. The fourth is the one being built.
The arcade engine and its asset library. Three of the games live on the arcade run on it: Deep Field, Nightside, The Long Fall.
An in-house WebGL2 engine and the forge that proves it. Worlds are documents, and a document is what the renderer reads. Moon Base runs on it, live now.
Time. A screenplay compiles to the document that renders the film. This is the part still being built, and this site with it.
Nothing here is a mockup. Five games are live and playable in a browser right now, four of them on these engines.