Journal
Notes from a growing world.
Chapters posted while Manga Craft is being made — every one links to the original post on X (@mangacraftgame).
27 chapters shown
- 31Development
The camera prints pages
Every Photo Mode shot comes back inked and halftoned, with the Volume and day strip — no HUD, unedited.
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- 30World design
Nobody planted these
The land’s weather picks the arc and the arc grows its own trees. Pine trunks run 11 to 17 blocks tall.
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- 29World design
Four forests, one seed
Pine, sakura, ink and oak — four forests from one Story Code, not one block placed, the farthest two 40,797 blocks apart.
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- 27Behind the scenes
47 things to buy and not one of them is progress
The shelf, counted: 47 products, three stores that must agree, and three refusals — money buys time not things, Zenii is earned never sold, story pages are found never purchased.
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- 26Behind the scenes
We wait a week before planting your tree
Blocks, seed and world change arrive at once. The real-world part of the pack waits seven days, is checked again, and only then goes ahead.
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- 25Development
The purchases worked — that was the bug
An empty store key on Android sent every purchase to the test store, and every one came back successful. Found and fixed the same day.
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- 21Development
Where the boost stops
A placed Sealed Suit’s reach used to be invisible. Now eight dashed ink spokes and a ring on the ground follow the terrain and stop at walls.
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- 20Development
The boss that bought the shop
One boss paid 5,772 Zenii against a 1,075 stall — a single fight bought the whole shop five times over. Bosses now pay in a straight line.
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- 19World design
The Sealed Suit sites
Nineteen places from one table — five forms, five edges, five ornaments, no two alike. A first pass, and they need to be far bigger.
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- 18World design
The dungeons
One line of three to eight rooms became a loop: fifty rooms, 250 blocks across, three floors, the boss behind the long way round.
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- 17World design
The spawn city
188 buildings, 38 streets, three gates and 738 blocks across — the top tier of the village generator.
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- 16World design
The arcs are settled
Nineteen arcs, four sub-biomes each, a weather layer on top, and around 4,000 blocks apiece.
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- 15World design
The falling leaves
Every fleck in the air had been a weather petal. Now seven species shed their own leaves, and 56 became 149.
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- 14Creatures
The creatures
42 species, counted part by part. None of them has a face, and half of them still need work.
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- 13World design
The dungeon
76 blocks underground, and the first interior shown.
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- NOTEDevelopment
The camera bug
Before and after: the renders that showed what the camera had been doing wrong.
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- NOTEBehind the scenes
“Volume” or “World”?
The first open question to everyone following along: what should a saved place be called?
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- 10World design
The ninth biome
Underwater, 41 blocks down.
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- 9World design
Biomes 7–8: Gag and Mecha
The last two of the eight, and a ninth teased.
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- 8World design
Biomes 5–6: Horror and Battle
Two more of the eight biomes.
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- 7World design
Biomes 3–4: Adventure and Samurai
Two more of the eight biomes.
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- 6World design
Biomes 1–2: Slice of Life and Romance
The first two of the eight biomes.
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- 5Creatures
The yard on a wet morning
Cows and chickens in the yard, in the rain.
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- 4Development
I rebuilt the water three times
Two Photo Mode renders and the story of getting the water right.
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- NOTEDevelopment
By the numbers
143 files, 42,567 lines, and a single image file.
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- 2Development
Every texture was upside down
Four block sheets, every one of them flipped.
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- 1Behind the scenes
First light over the yard
Where it started: the first look at Manga Craft.
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