Templates

A template is a finished game: terrain, assets, entities, settings and sometimes rules and variables. It is the fastest starting point, and the best way to see how a mode fits together. All of them are playable as they are on the platform.

Ridge CircuitSky StepsOutpost PadCanyon DashQuiet IslandTwo BannersLast GateFern Valley HuntPirate Cove

The nine games#

These are the nine cards under Start from a game, on the studio’s entry screen.

In one sentence#

Ridge Circuit

Three laps around the ridge. Grass is slow, asphalt is fast, the blue pads are faster.

Sky Steps

Climb the terraces, collect the coins, stomp the blobs, reach the flag.

Outpost Pad

Five waves on a frontier landing pad. Drones come over the rim, the containers give cover, coins repair your suit.

Canyon Dash

Three lanes, crates and spikes, and it never slows down.

Quiet Island

An island with signs to read and coins to find. No timer, no lives, just a walk.

Two Banners

Red against blue on a river valley. Grab their flag, run it home, three captures win.

Last Gate

Eight waves march the winding road to your gate. Build turrets on the grass, hold the line.

Fern Valley Hunt

A prehistoric valley at dawn. Raptors come out of the ferns, the T-rex guards the nests.

Pirate Cove

A galleon at anchor, a cove at sunset. Gather the doubloons, find the captain’s key, open the treasure.

Template logic#

Two templates ship with rules and variables, and serve as reference examples.

Quiet Island#

A welcome message at start, a found counter shown in the HUD, and a “Dusk falls” rule: at 90 s, if fewer than 6 items were found, the mood switches to sunset. The NPC says where the camp key fell, which opens the gate.

"vars": [
  { "name": "found", "type": "number", "value": 0, "scope": "global" },
  { "name": "dusk", "type": "boolean", "value": false, "scope": "global" }
],
"gameRules": [
  { "id": "x1", "name": "Welcome", "enabled": true, "once": true, "event": { "on": "start" }, "conditions": [],
    "actions": [{ "type": "hud", "text": "Find the camp key. The villager knows where it fell." }] },
  { "id": "x2", "name": "Count coins", "enabled": true, "once": false, "event": { "on": "pickup", "tag": "*" }, "conditions": [],
    "actions": [{ "type": "addVar", "name": "found", "value": 1 }] },
  { "id": "x3", "name": "Dusk falls", "enabled": true, "once": true, "event": { "on": "time", "atLeast": 90 },
    "conditions": [{ "name": "found", "op": "<", "value": 6 }],
    "actions": [{ "type": "mood", "preset": "sunset" }, { "type": "setVar", "name": "dusk", "value": true },
                { "type": "message", "text": "The sun is going down. Hurry." }] }
],
"hud": { "vars": ["found"] }

Fern Valley Hunt#

Built from the arena: regenerated relief, faster enemies tagged raptor, two nests (spawner tagged nest), a kills variable incremented on every kill, and a rule granting 500 points on the tenth raptor.

"gameRules": [
  { "id": "r1", "name": "Count kills", "enabled": true, "once": false, "event": { "on": "kill", "tag": "*" }, "conditions": [],
    "actions": [{ "type": "addVar", "name": "kills", "value": 1 }] },
  { "id": "r2", "name": "Ten down", "enabled": true, "once": true, "event": { "on": "variable", "name": "kills" },
    "conditions": [{ "name": "kills", "op": ">=", "value": 10 }],
    "actions": [{ "type": "message", "text": "Ten raptors down. The valley is quieter." }, { "type": "score", "value": 500 }] }
]

Library upgrade#

Templates are written with the engine’s procedural assets (voxel and primitives), so they always work. When opened they are upgraded: the hero, the enemies and a few props are swapped for real models from the library, and assets no longer used are dropped.

Starting from a template#

1. Open the studio

   From the Templates page, or on the studio’s entry screen with Start from a game. The /studio?template=<mode> link does the same; /studio?template=hunt and ?template=cove open the two showcases.

2. Edit freely

   The template becomes your project, opened on the Map step. Nothing ties you to the original: go to Test to play it, to Cast to change the characters.

3. Or start from a map, or from scratch

   A starting map gives you a world with no gameplay; a blank project keeps the chosen mode with flat terrain, a player start, a dozen basic assets and default settings.

Remixing a published game#

Any published game can be remixed: /studio?remix=<id> downloads its document, migrates it to the current format and opens it as a new project titled “… remix”. When the original has an on-chain id, the remix keeps meta.remixOf, shown on the game page once published.