The game
Ashenmoor is a dark fantasy world built for curiosity. I want every path, creature and strange behaviour to give you a reason to stop, look closer and wonder what happened here.
The map is deliberately small. Its secrets should come from density and attention, with some discoveries leading to clear answers and others left open to interpretation.
The wanderer
Kesh is small beside the buildings and creatures around him. That scale turns ordinary spaces into places worth investigating.
In the current prototype he can explore the village, climb ladders, open doors and break clay pots. His actions will grow as the world finds its shape.
The process
I began with characters, themes and fragments of story rather than a finished encyclopedia. Drawing, modelling and walking through rough terrain in Godot keep suggesting what belongs beyond the next hill.
Ashenmoor gives my drawings, 3D work and experiments a shared direction. The devlog follows what I discover while building it.
2026-08-25
A first look at the walking turret, from the early concept sheets to a working scene in Godot.
I am drawn to automata built for harmful purposes: machines that carry out a task without hesitation. The walking turret grew from that idea, shaped into something that could patrol Ashenmoor instead of standing still.
I painted the chosen design in Krita, then used Krita FAL to call fal.ai without leaving the canvas. It handles image generation, upscaling, background removal and image description online, leaving my computer responsive while those jobs run.
My Blender workflow stays non-destructive: modifiers remain unapplied and materials procedural. I can return to the asset, improve it and run Kiln again to create a fresh game-ready version without breaking the working model.
I first animated the turret in Blender to settle its movement and art direction. In Godot, scripts drive the animation procedurally instead.
Godot Flex Bridge sends the three placed turrets as lightweight references. The importer replaces each one with its .tscn scene, including its Area3D nodes and scripts.
In this first procedural pass, the scripts only move each turret from point A to point B. The same system can later support more complex behaviours.
The making-of is a web export; the original master remains outside the site.
Making Ashenmoor
Available now
Available
Move Blender collections into linked files without losing the context of the working scene.
Available
Bake procedural Blender materials into game-ready textures for a cleaner path to Godot.
Available
Generate and refine textures with image models directly inside Blender.
In development
In development
Build levels in Blender and reconstruct their nested scenes automatically in Godot.
In development
Use fal.ai models inside Krita while keeping generation close to the drawing process.
