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A C# engine for 2D, isometric, and 3D games. Build the scene, shape its characters, paint their surfaces, compose the soundtrack, and give it all rules to play by. The creative tools and the game runtime grow together.
A real scene. The tools that shape it.Actual editor capture · Scene detail; expand for the full workspace
Open original (opens a new tab)01 / THE WORKSPACE
The Hub keeps projects and engine versions together. Inside the editor, the scene, assets, code, and play controls share one workspace.
Build with entities, components, and reusable prefabs.
Move between authoring and a running game without leaving the project.
Shape levels from tilemaps to landscapes.
Keep the assets and the systems that use them connected.
02 / CREATIVE TOOLS
Editable source documents stay beside the game that uses them. Move from shape to surface to motion, or start with a sprite, a melody, or a material.
MODELLING & SCULPTING
Build props and characters as editable 3D models, from their first silhouette to their final topology.
TEXTURES & MATERIALS
Give a model its colour, surface, and wear with editable material and texture authoring.
RIGGING & ANIMATION
Turn the model into a character that can move, react, and carry equipment.
SPRITES & 2D ANIMATION
Draw a sprite, refine its palette, and build the frames that make it feel alive.
COMPOSITION & SOUND
Build a score from sections and recurring motifs. Keep the notes editable, shape each phrase, and let gameplay change how it plays.
LOCAL AI IMAGE WORKFLOW
Connect a local image model when you choose to add generative images to your workflow. Forge is not required for the built-in asset tools and was not used in Beasts of Burner or Knux.
Only when using Forge: install a separate local model service and compatible model files. Hardware requirements depend on the model you choose.
Author material graphs and multi-emitter particle effects. Bring shaders, lights, and effects into the same scene as the assets they belong to.
Build branching conversations and cinematic timelines with camera paths, animation, audio, and event cues. Drive dialogue from gameplay and save its progress.
03 / LAND, SEA & SKY
Build the places a player moves through. Sculpt the land, paint its surfaces, and carry the scene from open water to the sky above it.
CONQREX TERRAIN STUDIO
Raise a ridge, carve a path, and blend rock into soil. The terrain stays editable in the project, with live scene previews and shared undo.
Use the same heightfield for the visible ground, a configured terrain collider, and navigation.
Sculpt heights, smooth slopes, cut holes, and build ramps or terraces. Start from a heightmap or generated land, with thermal and hydraulic erosion tools.
Blend up to eight material layers. Paint by hand or use slope and height rules, with textures authored in Canvas.
Chunks use distance LOD. Terrain edits update the affected chunks, while saved terrain assets travel with their layer textures.
OCEAN & PROCEDURAL SKY
Let waves reach the horizon. Change the wind and sea state, catch the sun on the surface, or take the camera underwater.
Actual native renderer studies · Open any image at 2560 × 1440.
WebGL2 uses simplified terrain colours and ocean/sky shading. Detailed terrain layer textures, ocean refraction, contact foam, and the underwater pass use the advanced renderer. Procedural terrain streaming remains separate from authored terrain; streamed chunks do not automatically gain collision or navmesh baking.
04 / THE RUNTIME
C# gameplay composes an entity-and-component world. Fixed-step simulation and interpolated presentation let the game’s rules and its visuals run at their own pace.
WebGPU and native backends provide the advanced renderer. WebGL2 includes a 3D compatibility tier with directional shadows; HDR post-processing, reflection probes, and point/spot shadows require the advanced tier. Streamed terrain rendering does not automatically create chunk collision.
Vehicle handling and complex contact cases continue to receive stability and performance work.
Build mechanics where players write C# to control an agent or respond to the world. An optional worker compiles their program, keeps its state between observations, and returns actions for the game’s rules to validate.
Requires an explicitly installed Linux x64 worker host. Ordinary project scripts continue to use the game’s existing C# sandbox.
Streaming playback supports compatible mono/stereo FLAC sources on the managed mixer. Unsupported devices, formats, or playback settings use the existing resident-audio path.
05 / GAME UI & INPUT
Design menus, HUDs, and settings around the game’s identity. Layout, typography, motion, and input belong to the same interface system.
06 / MULTIPLAYER
Players join an authoritative session through a server address. Shared game systems handle replicated entities while the server owns the simulation.
Online deployments require server hosting. Accounts, lobbies, and matchmaking are game-specific integrations; large-scale internet qualification remains ongoing.
07 / AI-ASSISTED AUTHORING
The built-in chat and external MCP clients can work with the live project: inspect its state, use supported authoring tools, run the game, and examine the result.
Discover components and tools, read the scene, inspect assets, and check script diagnostics.
Edit scenes and creative documents through the editor’s operations, with shared undo for supported edits and named checkpoints.
Run scripted play sessions, start from prepared saves, inspect gameplay state, and capture screenshots—with host tooling for video and audio.
Compare captures and regressions, measure behaviour, revise the source, and build the next playable version.
A hosted AI assistant can operate the editor’s tools without running an AI model on your computer. Local chat models are an optional choice. Scene, terrain, pixel, music, material, model, animation, UI, dialogue, and effect tools expose structured operations. Long-running jobs report progress and can be cancelled where supported.
Measure movement, traversal, interaction ranges, and camera framing with repeatable trials. Overlays, gameplay traces, and scenario comparisons make the effects of a design change easier to examine.
Structured game specifications become coordinated authoring plans spanning design, art, sound, gameplay, and builds. Studio schedules the work and retains its outputs, with source planning for 60 Hz co-op projects across desktop, browser, and server. The separate GameSpec execution path builds and tests bounded changes in an isolated project. Its current packaged verification path targets Linux x64.
Production recording retains the authored sources and actual Player captures through an iteration. Resume a session, record gameplay and audio, and export selected material for a project’s showcase.
08 / BUILD & DELIVERY
Scenes, assets, settings, and C# scripts live in one project. Build profiles prepare that content for the engine’s shared desktop, browser, Android, and server Players.
| Destination | Runtime | Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| Desktop | Native Vulkan, Direct3D 12, or Metal | Self-contained Windows, macOS, and Linux packages. Shared display, quality, audio, and input preferences. |
| Web | WebAssembly · WebGPU / WebGL2 | Browser builds with a 3D compatibility renderer, compressed content shards, local caching, and deferred long-audio loading. Optional mixed AOT compiles engine code ahead of time while game scripts remain interpreted. |
| Android | Native Vulkan Player | Android App Bundle packaging, touch and keyboard integration, safe areas, haptics, and mobile-service adapters. |
| Server | Headless .NET Player | Authoritative simulation, join endpoints, persistent world storage, and operator diagnostics. |
Import images, audio, fonts, and glTF models. Cook assets for the destination, track terrain layers and cooked navmesh dependencies, and reuse a shared derived-data cache. Texture profiles handle normal maps, alpha cutouts, and platform compression.
Content bundles load in shards, with compressed downloads and browser caching. Long soundtrack clips can arrive after startup; compatible FLAC sources can also decode in slices during playback. Model delivery tools compact exported geometry, while the asset pipeline prepares textures and keeps the editable sources separate.
Android Billing, advertising/consent, Firebase, and Play Integrity adapters require provider configuration and device/store validation. iOS, consoles, and VR/AR remain future targets.
09 / MADE WITH CONQREX
Play the development builds, rotate the actual models, listen to the music, and follow the making of each game.
COOKING · PARTY / IN DEVELOPMENT
Kitchens on the backs of giants. Everything is on fire.
SPORTS · RPG / IN DEVELOPMENT
Find your gym. Build your fighter. Earn your place.
10 / DEVELOPMENT NOTES ·
The latest work expands the places we can build, the music we can shape, and the ways a player can interact with a world.
Terrain Studio brings editable landscapes and layered surfaces. Oceans and procedural skies add waves, changing light, and underwater views.
Explore land, sea & sky ↑Editable sections and reusable motifs now carry phrase dynamics and accents. Compatible long FLAC recordings can decode in slices during playback.
Explore music tools ↑Navigation now bakes terrain and triangle meshes. Preview routes in the editor, inspect connected floors, and package prepared navmesh assets.
Explore navigation ↑Optional Linux workers run player-written C# in confined processes. The game keeps control of the actions those programs request.
Explore player programs ↑We’re refining the tools through Beasts of Burner, Knux, and other projects. Broader device coverage, rendering parity, music quality, and complex physics remain active areas of work.
Character studies now cover anatomy, topology, and early poses. Advanced skin shading, hair, and full facial performance remain in development.
Public engine access is not available yet. Contact the studio about collaboration or future access.
A FEW THINGS YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING
The engine is currently developed in-house. Public downloads are not available yet; the showcase includes playable game builds. Get in touch about future access.
AI can carry out supported authoring, inspection, and playtest tasks. The live editor and structured GameSpec workflows have different scopes. Making a finished game still involves creative direction, gameplay development, and iteration on the results.
The homepage is an interactive presentation of Astral Veil artwork and scene-authoring ideas. The editor image shows Beasts of Burner in the actual workspace. Follow the showcase’s play links to run the actual games.
Projects share their gameplay systems and content. Rendering features, input, audio, and platform services depend on the target; WebGL2 uses a reduced rendering tier. We continue testing and improving each Player through the games we build.
LET’S BUILD SOMETHING INTERESTING.