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build games in your browser.
Awaken is a real-time 3D game engine and editor that runs entirely in your browser. Import assets, build a scene, and ship a playable link, all from a single tab. No install, no login.*
* An account is only needed to buy paid assets or publish your own to the store.
Why Awaken
100% in your browser
It runs on the open web - just a tab. Nothing to download, nothing to keep updated.
Powered by WebGPU
Real-time rendering straight on your GPU - modern lighting and large scenes, drawn live as you edit.
Physics built in
Colliders and rigid bodies with gravity, collisions and bounce - hit Play and your scene reacts in real time.
Fully client-side
Your project never leaves your machine. No servers, no uploads, no tracking.
Instant, zero setup
No account, no config, no waiting. Load one tab and you're building in seconds.
Free & open
Free to use. Import from Unity, Godot and Unreal, export a self-contained scene.
From assets to a shareable link.
Three steps, one tab. There is no build server and no export queue - the whole loop happens on your machine.
- 1
Import
Drop in a Unity, Godot or Unreal package - or a glTF/OBJ model. Awaken reads it directly, no re-export step.
- 2
Build
Compose the scene, add physics and TypeScript behaviours, and watch it run live on WebGPU as you work.
- 3
Ship
Export one self-contained file and share the link. Anyone opens it in a browser and plays - no install.
Nothing leaves your machine.
Editing, TypeScript compilation, physics, and packaging the final game all run in your browser tab. No account, no build servers, no uploads - your project stays entirely yours, from the first primitive to the exported file.
A real editor, right in the browser.
Scene hierarchy, inspector, gizmos, lighting, physics - the full toolset, rendering live on WebGPU. Drag in a Unity, Godot or Unreal package and Awaken reads it directly.
Open the editor
Editor screenshotPlay one right here.
Awaken games are single, self-contained files. Here is one running in the page - the same thing your players get from a link.
Nothing here was placed by hand
The terrain, the caves running under it, the trees, the grass and the seabed are all generated from a single seed as you walk into them. So is the sky: a day and night cycle with a moon that keeps its phase, clouds that drift and thicken, and weather that turns over on its own, from clear to rain to a storm with lightning, then back. Break a block or place one and the world remembers.
The whole thing is 0.84 MB
That is one file: the game, its world generator, and the engine that runs it. A photo from a modern phone is usually two to five times larger. There is nothing to install and nothing to download once it has loaded, because there is no second file to fetch. Send someone and they are playing.
Controls
- WASD
- Move
- Space
- Jump, or swim up under water
- Shift
- Sprint
- Left click
- Break the block under the crosshair
- Right click
- Place the held block
- 1 to 9
- Choose what to hold
- Escape
- Pause: map, sound, view distance, seed
- Double-click the map
- Travel there
A real engine, not a toy.
Everything you need to make and ship a 3D game - and the docs to go deep on each part.
Modern renderer
Forward PBR, cascaded shadows, a Unity-style Volume post-FX stack and GPU-driven culling - all in WGSL.
Learn morePhysics engine
Rapier under the hood: rigid bodies, colliders, a character controller, raycasts and triggers.
Learn moreScripting, two ways
Gameplay ScriptBehaviours and editor tools, both in TypeScript - compiled in your browser (esbuild-wasm), with public fields becoming inspector controls.
Learn moreImport anything
Unity, Godot and Unreal packages plus glTF/OBJ models - meshes, materials, colliders, terrain, skeletal animation, and Unity HUD/UI packs.
Learn moreOne-file export
Ship a single, self-contained game.html - assets inlined and zstd-compressed, double-clickable, no hosting required.
Learn moreA full editor
Docking panels, transform gizmos, hierarchy, inspector, a material editor and a code editor - the whole toolset in a tab.
Learn moreBring your existing project
Drop in an engine package - or a glTF/OBJ model - and Awaken reads it directly, no re-export. Here’s what comes across today.
| Feature | Unity | Godot | Unreal | glTF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meshes & geometry | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ |
| Materials & textures | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Scene & transforms | ◐ | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ |
| Skeletons & animation | ◐ | ◐ | – | ✓ |
| Lights | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | – |
| Cameras | ✓ | ✓ | – | – |
| Colliders & physics | ✓ | ◐ | – | – |
| Terrain | ✓ | – | – | – |
| Sky & post-FX | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ | – |
| Per-instance re-skin | ✓ | ✓ | – | – |
| Prefabs & instances | ✓ | ✓ | – | – |
How it’s built, in the open.
- #19Six reasons an imported scene looked wrong, and none of them were the importerBlack surfaces, dead grey metal, a town lighting four of its seventy lamps. Every fix was in the renderer, every cause was an assumption the source engine did not share, and every one was found by measuring rather than by tuning.
- #18The HUD is DOM, and that was the right callA WebGPU engine drawing its interface with div elements: why text rendering decided it, what it costs, and importing Unity's uGUI into a flat set of anchored nodes.
- #17Particles: a CPU simulator, a four-vertex draw, and three places that disagreedA structure-of-arrays pool on the CPU, one instanced draw with no vertex buffer, and why the preview looked different from the game for weeks.
Start building - it’s free.
No account. No install. Your work stays on your machine.
Launch Editor