Ember Reach

Mine the crystal fields, raise an army of Spears and Weirs, and level the enemy Core before the eight-minute clock burns out.

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Runs in your browser · three.js · keyboard & touch

● live engine preview

GatherMotes harvest glowing Lumen from the crystal fields and bank it at your Core.

BuildConvert Lumen into melee Spears and ranged Weirs under a population cap.

AttackBox-select, right-click to march, attack-move into the enemy stronghold.

Screenshots

Rendered live by the game engine at load — no photos, all pixels from the build.

Features

True 3D crystal arena — a night-lit basin of floating cores, glowing ore and glass-shard casters.
Full RTS loop — economy, population caps, selection boxes, move & attack-move orders, unit AI.
Living enemy — the Violet Core harvests, builds and sends attack waves that grow meaner each minute.
Win or lose three ways — destroy the enemy Core, survive a siege, or out-score it when the clock hits 8:00.
Keyboard + touch — WASD pan, wheel zoom, hotkey builds; virtual stick, pinch-zoom and tap orders on phones.
Zero downloads — every mesh, texture and sound is generated in code, streamed from plain static files.

How to play

Goal

Bank Lumen with Motes, spend it on Spears (key 1) and Weirs (key 2, key 3 on the build bar), then smash the enemy Core. Destroy it and you win instantly. If your Core falls, you lose. At 8:00 the Core with more hull left wins.

Keys

WASD / arrows — pan camera · Q / E / wheel — zoom · 1 2 3 — build · click / drag — select · right-click — move · right-click on enemy — attack · Ctrl + right-click — attack-move · P — pause · Enter — restart.

Touch

Drag the field to pan, pinch to zoom, tap a unit to select it, tap ground to order, tap an enemy to attack. Use the amber stick, +/− zoom pads and build bar buttons at the screen edges. Tap the minimap to jump the camera.

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