The Ember Mind

An independent studio making games, explorable worlds, websites and tools for the web.

An etched illustration of a workshop. A polar bear sits at a wooden desk among books and papers, working a small brass machine. On the wall behind him are pinned two old botanical prints of ferns, a technical drawing of a reactor, and Kepler's model of the planets nested in geometric solids. Through the window behind him is a forest; a black crow in a rust-orange scarf flies in with a rolled paper in its beak. — Bear builds. Crow keeps bringing ideas. Crow's latest idea: A Little Earth, a real city, rebuilt in the browser.

Featured experience

A Little Earth

A Little Earth is a growing 3D world built from real geographic data. Spin the globe, discover cities and landscapes, and explore them on foot, by bicycle, or by car. A miniature version of our planet, waiting to be explored — right in your browser.

Status: In development · playable in the browser · made for keyboard and mouse

buildings and streets from OpenStreetMap
All sound made in code: footsteps per surface, swifts at dusk, church bells

A Little Earth

Footage recorded in the current build. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · LiDAR/DBTR Regione Emilia-Romagna.

From the workshop

Tools we make for ourselves.

Small experiments become real tools. Here is one taking shape.

Kepler's cosmos, 1596 — drag to turn, press to open.

The Senate's 3D Roman campus, where coding agents work and the Consul awaits a decision

Coding agents · made here

The Senate

Turns a coding goal into a team effort: one agent plans, others build, another checks, and you decide what reaches your code.

Coming soon

Preview The Senate

Game

Twin Peaks RPG

Mistero di Laura Palmer

A pixel-art mystery in the style of the Game Boy Color classics. You are Agent Cooper, arriving in town to find out who killed Laura Palmer.

Status: Fan project · playable prototype · in Italian · keyboard or touch

Unofficial and non-commercial. Not affiliated with the owners of Twin Peaks, and not for sale.

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Fuga al Fresco home page on a laptop: “Fa caldo. Scappiamo al fresco.” with 24° in Milan today against 13°, the coolest July high among the destinations.

Website

Fuga al Fresco

Dove andare al fresco, scelto con i numeri

A guide for escaping the Italian summer heat. Three questions, and it compares 128 destinations by their historical July highs, real driving times from your city, and prices.

Status: Live · in Italian · data from Open-Meteo and OpenStreetMap

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About the studio

The Ember Mind is a small independent studio. We make places you can walk into, like a real city rebuilt from open data or a small mystery told in pixels. We also build websites and tools that do one useful thing well.

Bear and Crow are the two halves of the studio. Bear is the patient one who builds; Crow is the one who flies in with more ideas than Bear can finish. The ember is the moment one of those ideas becomes real.

Open to collaborations and new projects: games, explorable places, websites and tools. If you have an idea, Crow would like to hear it.