Glimmerwick

The concept is the contract

Seven sheets were generated before anything was built — key art, an orthographic turnaround of the Wickling, three zone sheets, a prop sheet and a material callout board. Every named element became a row in an inventory, every row a real Blender asset, and every audit round compared the game against these sheets.

Key art — the wax-spill track across the workshop benches, the contract for zone 1

The same benches live in the engine: baked drip candles, copper bands, glowing wax-drop pickups

Gray boxes before wax

The whole course ran and was beaten as flat-gray primitives before any Blender time — 29 automated playthrough rounds tuned ramp grades, rim heights, wind-shaft lift and the melt/grow economy. The blockout's final run finished with zero deaths on desktop and mobile, and its collision geometry ships unchanged inside the finished game.

Blockout round 29: the Great Wick lit at 69.7 s with 0 gutters — gray boxes only

The same terraces after the art pass: paraffin pools, lit stubs, stalactites, the tower beyond

A Blender pipeline, baked to glTF

Twenty asset units were sculpted headlessly with the shared kit — blob-fused drip sculpts, boolean-cut honeycomb, scan-library bench planks — then baked to PBR texture sets and compressed for the web. The hero went through four visual audit rounds against its turnaround sheet before it shipped.

The Wickling turnaround — drip runnels, hardened skirt, crown wick

Audit round 4: high-poly drip sculpt baked onto a 3k-tri rolling sphere, emissive crown

Measured, honestly

Real engine features, earned