A calm camping game

Emberpine

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Mirror Lake · Browser alpha 0.6.9

Emberpine

Pitch a tent. Light a fire. Take your time.

Keyboard and mouse. Phones play held sideways.Hold your phone sideways. Your first tap asks for full screen.

On iPhone, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen, to play without the browser bars.

Maxim’s models · Emberpine v4 brief · Sky and mountains drawn in code

See you by the fire.

The embers are banked and your camp will keep. Close this tab whenever you like.

Choose your camper

The forager

Juniper

Reads the forest floor like a map. Green field jacket, deep cargo pockets and a rust canvas pack.

Juniper17:00 · Late afternoonWood 0

Camp notes

A place to sleep

A little warmth

Field pack

Backpack

No backpack yet. One leans by the sleeping bag: pick it up for ten more slots.

Drag items between the backpack and the hotbar below.

Juniper, at camp

Gathered

Notebook

Pick up the rod at the end of the dock. Face open water: bait the hook, cast, wait for the bobber to dip, then reel in. Each fish has a rarity; you land it with 80% times its rarity.

Recipes

Campfire: 2 wood
Boiled or smoked fish: 1 fish in the pot over a lit fire, about 30 seconds

Bait
Cast
Wait
Reel

New catch

Added to your pack

From the pot

Back in your pack

Cooking pot

About 30 seconds over a lit fire, then the fish goes back in your pack. A timer floats over the pot.

Camp neighbour

E Use ITab Pack T Photo1-5 Hotbar M Map Esc Pause

Resting

Paused

Juniper at camp

Controls

W A S D: Walk
Mouse: Look around
Shift: Stroll faster
E: Gather, pitch, light, sit, lie down, talk, fish. Nothing nearby: free hands
T P: Photo mode
[ ]: Zoom the lens
F: Change film
Click: Focus (photo mode)
− =: Aperture, blur
, .: Exposure
1-5: Hotbar: hold an item, again for free hands
L: Lantern
Enter: Save the PNG
N: Next time of day
M: Valley map
Esc: Pause and release the mouse

Left thumb: Walk. Push to the rim to stroll faster
Right thumb: Drag to look around
E: Gather, pitch, light, sit, lie down, talk, fish
Hotbar: Tap a slot to hold it, again for free hands
Camera: Photo mode
+ / −, pinch: Zoom the lens
Film: Change film
Tap the scene: Focus (photo mode)
f/ · EV: Aperture and exposure
Shutter: Save or share the PNG
Sun · Map: Next time of day · Valley map
Pause: This menu

Your first evening

Find the canvas bundle and pitch your tent.
Gather wood from fallen logs around the clearing.
Light the stone fire ring. Stay a while.
Take the rod from the dock, catch a fish, then boil or smoke it in the pot.

Single player. Progress lasts for this visit. Music is a gentle loop composed in code for this alpha.

Emberpine · Field camera

Focusing

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Click to focus · [ ] or scroll to zoom · − = aperture · , . exposure · F film

Tap the scene to focus

Turn your phone sideways

Emberpine plays in landscape. Your camp waits right here.

The Emberpine valley

The delivered Medium v3 valley map, with Mirror Lake in the centre, forests, ridges and connected waterways.

This alpha explores the camp clearing west of Mirror Lake. The full valley is a reference, with distant terrain scaled for this study.