Emberkins
Your Emberkin
Mage
headgear
class

Make your Emberkin. Walk. See who comes to the fire.

A small pixel RPG for your phone. Your character keeps a fire at the edge of the woods. Your real-life steps keep it burning, and the light draws company.

Coming to iOS and Android

How it works

Three things. That's the whole game.

1

Make your Emberkin

Choose a class, name your character, and make the look yours with headgear and colours. You start with a fire in a clearing and not much else.

2

Go for a walk

The game only moves when you do. Your steps feed the fire. A short walk keeps it lit. A long one makes it blaze, and a blaze can be seen from a long way off.

3

Come back and see who's there

Something followed the light while you were gone. A creature you can try to tame, or another player warming their hands. Say hello and swap gifts.

The classes

Seven classes to choose from.

Your Emberkin is one of seven classes. Each has its own role at the fire and its own set of headgear. Pick one, name it, and make it yours.

Mage
Reads the light
Warden
Stands the line
Ranger
Scouts the dark
Priestess
Keeps the fire
Shade
Finds what's lost
Trader
Brings the goods
Smith
Makes what they carry

The creatures

Walk, and creatures find your fire.

Every walk has a chance of a creature encounter. Open the app and one might be sitting by your fire. Tap it to try to tame it. It's a roll of the dice, and it doesn't always work. Tame it and it's your pet. You have room for one pet to start, and you earn more room by walking.

Pixel characters gathered at a campfire, one showing off new headgear
company at the fire

Other players

You'll meet other Emberkins along the way.

Other players' characters pass through your clearing after a walk, name and all, and yours passes through theirs. Leave a gift for them, and find one waiting when you get back.

From the maker

I'm Skittelz. I grew up playing online RPGs, and what I miss most is the nights my guild sat around a fire in the town square doing nothing in particular. Most of us don't have time for that any more. Emberkins is my attempt to keep a little of it: a character, a fire, and company at the end of the day, in the minutes a busy life leaves over. I'm making it on my own, evenings and weekends. If you'd like to help it get made, you can back it on Patreon and you'll be first into the beta.

Support on Patreon

One tier, give what you like. Cancel any time.

The beta

Gather around the fire.

Emberkins is in development. Leave your email for updates and a beta invite. I won't email you about anything else.