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Yes Powerquest is a benchmark I am striving for. In multiple areas, like the realtime lighting, particle effects and 3D environments and animation tools I plan to surpass them by quite a bit. I am going a bit heavy on that side. Naturally games built with Clickwork do not need to use those :D

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Good call. I need to add tags!

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Thanks! I wanted a tool that side steps everything unnecessary and just gets you making the game while looking good doing it!

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hotspot creation etc is very snappy and simple here. naturally a focused engine like this is always going to be more restricted. But I am hoping I can provide toolset that allows the creation of bad-ass point and click games!

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Clickwork - Jussi-Petteri Kemppainen

www.jkemppainen.com/company/dino... comment on this post if you like to be in the test group-. I am looking for people who are experienced in game creation.

jkemppainen.com

Clickwork is a state of the art pixel art point and click game engine. It includes everything you need from programming to art tools.

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The engine has real-time lighting and shadows; 3D scenes (with option to go from flat 2d parallax to as complex 3D as you want); node based scripting language and Lua support, pixel animation tools, node graph based particles (with realtime lighting and scene reactions) and more!

Jussi Kemppainen @jkemppainen.com · 10/08/2026

I am building a pixel art point and click game engine that includes everything from scripting to asset creation to animation (2d and 3d) and particle effects. a complete suite of tools for making the best kind of games: pixel art point and click! Clickworks. Opening for testing soon! #adventuregame

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Some kaleidoscopic images created with Silver

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Jussi Kemppainen @jkemppainen.com · 04/08/2026

Silver BETA 6 is out for testing! Better everything* (*Film emulation) Join test at silver-photo.com/download/ 🐼

a closeup of a panda with a stick of Bambu

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Jussi Kemppainen @jkemppainen.com · 03/08/2026

Overt the summer holiday I built a photo emulation software for high-end photo emulation on iOS and Mac OS, can be used directly in Photos in image edit mode. Super quick, easy! All feedback welcome! You can download the app for iOS and Mac OS in the following link testflight.apple.com/join/2zP3PKz5

Jussi Kemppainen @jkemppainen.com · 27/06/2026

I can feed in probe data to a material in runtime, but it breaks batching making the drawcall count absolutely blow up and make the perf worse.

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Jussi Kemppainen @jkemppainen.com · 27/06/2026

Yep this is roughly the idea. I calculate the reflecting light in each spot on the map and then apply this light to the meshes as an emissive pass. Unity's own light probes do a similar thing, but those can not be moved or created on the fly.

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The GI bounces affect everything in the world from vegetation to props and vehicles

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GI probes being recalculated in realtime to match shifting light scenarios. The probes could update every frame for ultra smooth look, but the game hardly needs that and I want this to run on the steam deck without issues!

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I also build a tech I penned GI stamps to allow meshes to bounce their color to the GI probes. It is a very subtle, but noticeable effect

I am very happy that my "weird" idea for realtime GI capture worked! It is a subtle effect but adds so much to the grounding of the vehicles!

It is not path tracing. but one bounce, 256 probes total. It is physically grounded math and it reads the actual world state: sand color, sun temperature, sky gradient and shadow distance. Later in the future I will add colour bounce from nearby structures,

the shadow raycast and GI analyze only fires when a probe is dirty. once settled, zero cost. probes don't need to rebake at all. total per-frame cost at steady state: one bilinear lookup per vehicle.

probes in shadow suppress the ground bounce and dim the sky away from shadow caster, creating nice occlusion. the suppression uses the occluder distance, letting more sky cast and bounce come trough in shallower shadow.

ground bounce is: sun color * temperature * sun angle * sand albedo * bounce scale * shadow contribution. the sand color comes from the world manager. so the bounce color automatically tracks the terrain you are driving on

the solution is a rolling 16×16 grid of ambient light probes. each probe stores spherical harmonics, a lightweight mathematical encoding of the full light environment at that position. the grid slides toroidally so probes only need to recalculate when they wrap around.

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vehicles in this game get hijacked mid-battle and thrown across five different biomes. each one has a different sun angle, sand color, and sky. baked GI is useless here: the world is fully procedural and randomized.