Enkindle

A calm, infinite black void. A scattering of glowing stars. And you, free to fly anywhere and build anything.

About

Enkindle is a creative sandbox you play right in your browser — no install, no account, no internet needed once it's open. You float through space, snap blocks together on an invisible grid, design your own block types from scratch, paint pixel textures by hand, and save as many separate worlds as you like. Everything you make is stored on your own computer.

Getting started

1. Open Play in a modern browser (Chrome, Edge, or Firefox all work).
2. Click anywhere to capture your mouse — now you're flying.
3. Look around by moving the mouse. Fly with WASD.
4. Left-click to place a block, right-click to remove one.
5. Press Esc (or Tab) any time to release the mouse and use the menus.

That's the whole loop. Everything below is the depth underneath it.

Flying around

Your flight speed shows in the top-right readout. It ranges from a slow drift (1) up to a fast cruise (120) — handy for crossing the void quickly, then slowing down for fine detail work.

There's no gravity and no collision — you can fly straight through your own builds. The void is effectively infinite in every direction.

Building

Aim the crosshair at any existing block or star, and a faint ghost outline shows where your next block will land. Stars count as solid anchors to build off of, so you've always got somewhere to start — there's a guaranteed star floating right in front of you when you spawn.

• Left-click — place a block
• Right-click — break a block (hold to keep breaking)
• You can build up to 10 blocks away from whatever you're aiming at
• Stars can't be broken — they're permanent landmarks (right-clicking one names it instead; more below)

The toolbar

Along the bottom are 9 block slots. Pick the active one with keys 1–9, the scroll wheel, or by clicking it. Whatever's in the active slot is what you place.

To fill a slot, open your Block Library (B) and drag a block onto a slot. Right-click a slot to clear it.

Power-building tools

Three toggles sit just above the toolbar (click them or use the keys). They stack together — a greebled 3×3 drag-sweep lays down instant detailed plating.

The chips light up blue when a tool is active, so you'll never mistake random greeble placement for a glitch.

Designing your own blocks

This is the heart of Enkindle. Press B to open the Block Library, then hit the ＋ button to open the Block Creator.

Every block has a live spinning 3D preview as you tweak it. You can set:

• Name — whatever you like
• Shape — Cube, Centered Plane (a flat panel — good for glass, screens, banners), or Crossed Planes (an X-shaped billboard — the classic look for plants, grass, and foliage)
• Color
• Transparency — from solid to nearly invisible (for glass, water, force fields)
• Glow Level — how bright the block's own surface looks (a self-lit sheen). Glow is unlimited — every glowing block shines, no matter how many you place.
• Light Level — casts a real point light onto the blocks around it. This is what actually lights up a room. Real lights are limited, so only the 16 sources nearest you are active at once (stars and Light blocks share that budget); the rest wake up as you get close. Pair Light with low Glow for a plain-looking lamp, or crank both for a blazing beacon.
• Shininess — from flat matte to polished metal
• Texture — hand-paint a 32×32 pixel design (see the Painter below)

New blocks automatically drop into your first empty toolbar slot, ready to use.

Editing later: double-click any block in the library (or right-click → Edit) to change it. Every block you've already placed in the world updates instantly to match. Right-click → Delete removes a block type (and clears it from your world). The starter White Cube is permanent so you always have something to build with.

The pixel Painter

Inside the Block Creator, click Paint (P) to open a little 32×32 pixel-art studio:

• ✏️ Pencil, 🪣 Fill (flood fill), 💧 Eyedropper (pick a color off the canvas), ⬜ Eraser (erase to transparent)
• A color picker, plus zoom in/out with the buttons or the scroll wheel
• A checkerboard shows through wherever pixels are transparent
• Export PNG to save your texture as a file, or Import to bring in any image (it gets scaled down to 32×32)

Your texture previews live on the spinning block while you paint, so you can see exactly how it'll look.

Worlds

Press V (or the 🌐 Worlds button) to manage worlds. Each world is its own separate universe — its own star arrangement, blocks, builds, and custom block designs.

• + New World — start a fresh universe
• Play — switch to another world (your current one saves automatically first)
• ✎ — rename
• ⬇ — export a world to a .json file (to back it up or share it)
• 🗑 — delete (asks "Sure?" first, so no accidents)
• Import file… — load a world someone shared with you, or a backup

Everything saves automatically as you build — there's no save button to remember. Your worlds live in your browser's storage on this computer.

Sharing tip: exported world files are completely self-contained. If you send someone a build that uses your custom blocks, those block designs travel inside the file — it'll look right on their machine even though they've never seen your blocks.

Stars & getting around

The void is full of glowing stars, near and far. They're your landmarks and your navigation system.

• Right-click a star to give it a name (like "Home Base" or "The Big Build") and to tune its Light level and Hue. Named stars float a readable label you can see from a distance, even through walls. Drop the Light slider to dim a star (or pull it to 0 to switch it off), and pick a Hue to tint the light it casts. You can set light/hue without naming it; "Remove" clears the name and resets the light to its natural state.
• Press L (or ⭐ Stars) to open the Star Map — a list of every star you've named, plus 🏠 Home, sorted by how far away they are.
• Click any name to fly there automatically. The game smoothly autopilots you over and parks you a few blocks out, facing it. Tap any movement key to cancel the flight and take over.

Home (spawn) is always at the top of the list — the cure for getting lost in your own universe.

Collections — copy & stamp

Built something great and want more of it? Collections let you save a chunk of your world and stamp copies anywhere. Press C (or 📦 Collections).

1. Click ➕ New from selection.
2. Click one corner block of the region you want, then the opposite corner. A blue box shows your selection (up to 16×16×16 blocks).
3. Give it a name. It's saved.

To use one, click Stamp next to a collection:

• A translucent ghost of the whole structure follows your crosshair.
• Hold X, Y, or Z and scroll to rotate the stamp in 90° turns around that axis.
• Left-click to place it. Right-click to finish stamping.
• Occupied cells are skipped, so stamps layer cleanly over existing builds.

Like worlds, collections carry their block designs with them, so you can stamp a build into a world that's never had those blocks before.

Sharing across worlds (folders)

Here's a neat one: your Block Library and Collections panel don't just show the current world — they show a folder for every world you've made.

So if you designed a perfect set of bricks in one world, you can use them in another without rebuilding them. Hit ＋ (or drag the block to your toolbar) and it's copied into your current world. Same with collections — stamp a build you saved in a completely different world.

It's a copy, not a live link, so deleting an old world can never break the builds you made from its pieces.

Music

Drop your own audio files into the music folder next to the game (named 1.mp3, 2.mp3, and so on — .wav and .ogg work too) and Enkindle will find them and play them on shuffle while you build.

The current track name and a volume slider live in the top-right readout. Your volume and on/off preference are remembered per world.

Place & break sounds

Every placement and break plays a soft synthesized note from a shared C pentatonic scale — there are no wrong notes, so building sounds like gentle music. The two actions are complementary opposites, a yin and yang of the same scale: placing is a bright, rising bell in a higher octave (creation); breaking is a warm, falling tone in a lower octave (dissolution — not a mistake, just nature). Because both draw from the same pentatonic pool, a place followed by a break always sounds consonant.

A separate ♫ volume slider sits next to the music control in the top-right readout, and K toggles the sounds on or off. Your preference is remembered per world.

Hiding the UI & the controls card

The controls card in the upper-left is off by default while you play, so the void stays clean. It appears automatically on the Esc lock screen (when you release the mouse), and you can toggle it mid-play with / — handy when you want a quick reminder of the keys. Press / again to hide it.

Press H to hide every floating UI element — crosshair, toolbar, build chips, status readout, the lower-left Worlds/Stars/Collections buttons, the controls card, everything — for a clean screenshot or to just drift and explore with no interface. Press H again to bring it back. Opening any panel (B, V, L, C) or pressing Esc also reveals the UI again. You can still fly, place, and break while it's hidden.

The full key map

A few good habits

• Your work saves on its own, constantly — but export your favorite worlds now and then as a backup. Browser storage is yours alone and clearing your browser data would erase it.
• Name a Home star early. You'll thank yourself once your universe gets big.
• Build a small library of reusable blocks and collections — then lean on the cross-world folders so you're never redesigning the same brick twice.

Privacy

No accounts. No servers. No tracking. Everything you build is stored in your own browser on your own computer. Enkindle loads once in your browser and then needs no internet connection. Clearing your browser data erases your worlds — export your favorites now and then as a backup.

🌌 Now go fill the void with something only you would make.