LoopOpen to allFaceted low-poly toon
Driftwood Isle Play ↗
A small island in a bright toon ocean: a pier, a sailboat, a ring shrine in the jungle, a wreck in the cove. No textures at all, just flat-shaded facets, from day into night.
- Carry A wooden sword and the hoverboard. An iron sword waits on the wreck's deck.
- Fight Reef crabs, coconut monkeys, wild boar, and a drowned sailor who walks at night.
- Find Fifteen pieces of sea glass, treasure on the seabed (swim down for it), a zipline ride.
- Quest The Sealed Ring: Wendell the castaway, three glyph shards and the Ring Shrine.
- Boss Captain Brine, the Drowned Captain.
LoopEarly accessPhotoreal
A boreal forest round a sheltered hollow: a ranger's cabin, a pond under a granite ridge, a mill hamlet. The day turns from dawn fog to lantern-lit night, with rain rolling through 2,600 pines.
- Carry A crossbow and the hoverboard; later a lever-action rifle and the Warden's Longbow.
- Hunt Deer, boar, elk and bear, some in rare coats; four elites; moss-grown thralls after dark.
- Find The fire lookout's zipline, a canoe, the bear cave, amber resin; a journal and a trophy wall to fill.
- Quest The Warden's Hollow: relight the ranger's three waystone lanterns. The lodge posts contracts.
- Boss The Antler King.
LoopEarly accessPainterly
Nalati Grasslands Play ↗
A high Tian Shan steppe, painted: the braided Kunes river, the nomad camp, the golden Sky Grassland and Snow Lotus Valley, each zone in its own colour, to a Kazakh score.
- Carry A bow, a sabre and a spear, and the hoverboard.
- Ride Break a wild stallion, name it, whistle it to you and hunt from the saddle. Win a round of kokpar.
- Fight Wolves, snow leopards, balbal warriors at dusk, ghost riders by night and five named elites.
- Quest Three chapters for Baqyt Ata, the camp elder: Tulpar, The Golden King, Father of the Wind.
- Bosses The Golden King in his kurgan, and Jel Ata, the Storm Titan, who comes with the storm.
LoopExperimentalDusk, just after sunset
Signal Dunes Play ↗
Dark orange dunes just after sunset, under an orange band fading up to indigo and the first stars. The signal tower waits on a far crest.
- Carry A braided leather bullwhip and the hoverboard.
- Whip A light crack, a heavy double crack, a pull that yanks a creature or a lever, a crack that lights a brazier.
- Fight Dune rays gliding against the dusk, burrowing skitterers in packs, charging dune striders.
- Quest Sefa the caravan scout: the buried caravan's logbook, oil from the dry well, three braziers, the signal fire.
- Boss The Dune Matriarch rises at the fire's signal: sweeping dives, a sandstorm, then down within the whip's reach.
LoopExperimentalGolden-hour low poly
Eight grassy islands over a sea of cloud at golden hour. Rope bridges carry you on foot; the glowing glass bridges carry only a hoverboard. On foot, you fall straight through.
- Carry A war fan and the hoverboard. Swing to slash, hold for a sweep, GUST to blow creatures back, and off the edge.
- Fight Drift rays, sky goats you can gust off an island, gale wisps that shove you toward the drop.
- Quest The bridge-keeper's notes, the roost cleared, three wind vanes turned by GUST, the bridge raised to the storm crown.
- Boss The Storm Roc: walls of wind that push you to the edge, diving strikes, then grounded on the crown.
LoopExperimentalJiehua neon: ruled lines and neon
Nine Dragon Stack Play ↗
Lantern Square, halfway up a city stacked 500 metres high: wet granite, a cinnabar gate, neon calligraphy, the Yamen Well dropping into silk fog. Today a fragment: the square, the Well's rim, the stair-street.
- Carry The Neon Jian, a straight sword with a glowing edge, and the Fei Zhua, a grapple on your wrist.
- Move Zip up to dragon hooks, climb the stair-street, cross the Well on its catwalks, through the crowd.
- Fight No creatures yet: the gate's combat check is a practice dummy.
- Planned The whole city, nine strata from the clouds down.
Developer onlyGreybox
The Template Build
The greybox every new shard starts from: a road in from each edge, a set piece at every entry, a hover test course, a ziggurat, an overpass. Grey on purpose: an author's world begins here.
Project Wildshard
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