Sand Drift
Play Sand Drift free online: a falling-sand cellular automata sandbox. Drop sand, water, fire, plant and stone, watch them react and settle, no download, no sign-up.
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How to play
The basics
Pick a material in the palette (Empty, Sand, Water, Fire, Plant, Stone), then drag on the canvas to paint. Clear wipes the canvas. Pause freezes the simulation. Touch: drag to paint. Works on phones and desktops.
Objective:
Build and watch a falling-sand sandbox. Sand falls and piles, water flows and sinks sand, fire rises and burns plant, plant is static ground, stone is a wall. Paint any material with the brush and clear the canvas to start over.
Controls:
Mouse: click and drag to paint the selected material; palette buttons switch material; Clear wipes the canvas; Pause freezes. Touch: drag to paint; tap palette to switch. No keyboard required.
Play Sand Drift free online: a falling-sand cellular automata sandbox. Drop sand, water, fire, plant and stone, watch them react and settle, no download, no sign-up.
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Source and license
Sand Drift is a Playnesta-original falling-sand sandbox (MIT, see LICENSE.txt in the package). The engine (js/main.js: the 160x100 cell grid, the falling-sand rules for sand/water/fire/plant/stone, the canvas ImageData renderer, the brush and touch handling), the stylesheet, the analytics bridge and the touch shim are all Playnesta-original. The upstream reference MaxBittker/sandspiel @ 9936e06b07a583aedfba9589c0cead2917f405fb (MIT) was read during selection as a mechanism reference only: no bytes are copied and no file under its MIT license is redistributed, and its webpack + babel + sass + Rust/WASM build chain is far heavier than this shell allows. The game is renamed to the generic descriptive term Sand Drift; falling sand is a public-domain mechanic with no trademark owner. Playnesta Games is the developer and publisher of this web implementation. https://github.com/MaxBittker/sandspiel · MIT
Game facts
- Developer
- Playnesta Games
- Publisher
- Playnesta Games
- Genre
- Arcade, Sandbox
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