The engine behind GOOD BUILD games

Pixel art, lit like the real thing.

Good Vibe Engine is what we make our games with. It gives chunky pixel-art worlds real sunlight, soft shadows and glowing nights, keeps every pixel crisp, and runs smoothly without a high-end graphics card.

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A tiny taste, running right here: watch the sun cross the sky, the shadows swing round, and the street lamp come on at dusk.

A stroll through the demo

Real frames, not mock-ups

Every image here comes straight out of Good Vibe Demo, our little game about a ball rolling through a sunny courtyard. Nothing touched up, nothing painted over.

The courtyard: Sky and sun bouncing off warm stone, with crisp shadows. — **The courtyard** Sky and sun bouncing off warm stone, with crisp shadows.

The lawn: About 34,000 blades of grass, swaying and casting shadows. — **The lawn** About 34,000 blades of grass, swaying and casting shadows.

The arcade: Soft shade under the colonnade on a sunny afternoon. — **The arcade** Soft shade under the colonnade on a sunny afternoon.

The pavilion: Wood, plaster and roof tiles catching the light. — **The pavilion** Wood, plaster and roof tiles catching the light.

The planters: Hedges throwing soft shadows into the grass. — **The planters** Hedges throwing soft shadows into the grass.

The fountain: The bronze fountain at the crossing, and the orbs you have to collect. — **The fountain** The bronze fountain at the crossing, and the orbs you have to collect.

The art is a stand-in until our artists finish the real thing. Play it in your browser or browse the gallery.

No expensive hardware

Smooth without a high-end PC

~115 fps

At 1440p with every lighting effect on, on a gaming laptop (RTX 4060 Laptop)

~73 fps

The same scene on a laptop’s built-in graphics (Radeon 780M), no graphics card

0 RT cards

No ray-tracing graphics card needed: the lighting runs on any modern GPU

261 fighters

On screen and fighting at once, at around 100 fps

Measured by us during development, in one of our games, on our own laptops (Ryzen 7 7840HS). Your numbers will vary, and they may change as our games grow.

What you’ll notice

Retro pixels, modern light

Light that feels real

Sunlight spills across the floor, bounces off walls into dark corners and casts soft shadows. The world looks lit, not painted.

Crisp, honest pixels

Every pixel stays square and sharp on any screen, from a 720p screen to a 4K TV. No blur, no smearing, just clean pixel art.

Days that turn into nights

Time passes. The sun sets, lamps switch on and windows glow. When a door opens or a wall comes down, the light follows a moment later.

A world that reacts

Tens of thousands of grass blades sway in the wind and part around whatever rolls through them, casting their own shadows as they move.

Plays on what you have

You don’t need an expensive graphics card. Our games run on gaming laptops, everyday laptops and integrated graphics.

Play in your browser

The same game can run in a web page, with nothing to install. Try the demo right now in Chrome or Edge.

Build. Play. Share. Repeat.

Play our games while we make them.

Become a GOOD BUILD Supporter and play every game we make, including the ones built with Good Vibe Engine as they arrive.

€1.99 a month or €14.99 a year. Cancel any time.

All our games, new ones too
Windows, Linux, Steam Deck, Android
Your name in the credits

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Why our own engine

Built for the games we want to make

We love pixel art, and we wanted it in worlds that feel alive: real sunsets, lamps that light up a street, shadows that move with the day. Nothing off the shelf did that and still ran well on an ordinary laptop, so we built it ourselves.

Owning the whole thing means our games can look like nothing else, run on more machines, and even play in a browser tab. It’s still in development and gets better with every game we make.

How it works

Say hello

Let’s make something that glows

Players, press, publishers or future teammates: we’d love to hear from you.

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