A project by Chris Zemmel
LiveA Million Years
Earth a million years after we're gone, grown from a single seed. Explore it, build a homestead, light a watchfire and plant your standard. The same seed is the same place for everyone who visits.
At a glance
- grows a whole world, the same for every visitor
- 1 seed
- play without an account or a download
- Guest
- geography, climate, weather, life, sky and sound
- Procedural
- React Three Fiber, in the browser
- WebGL
Previews
Captured at a-million-years.zyric.de as a guest, rendered in software without a graphics card, so the light is flatter than on a real GPU.
Overview
A Million Years is a solo worldbuilding project about procedural generation, persistence and discovery. Every world is generated deterministically from a single seed, producing its geography, climate, weather, life and sky.
A seed is a place rather than a session: a world can be revisited, shared and explored together while it stays identical for everyone who visits. It is built with React, TypeScript, React Three Fiber and a fully procedural audio system.
Process
Step 1: One seed, one world
The seed decides everything: the land, the climate, the weather, what lives there and the sky above it. The same seed always grows the same world.
Step 2: Shared by its seed
Because a seed is a place, you can send it to someone and they stand in the same world. No accounts, no downloads, and no backend required.
Step 3: Leave a mark
Build a homestead, light a watchfire, and plant your standard.
Step 4: Time passes
Weather changes and moons drift overhead, and every world develops its own character from the same underlying rules.
By design
Creative research. Built to improve my worldbuilding: procedural generation, atmosphere and discovery.
A place worth returning to. An experiment in what makes a place feel worth coming back to.
The engine behind the village. The Christmas Village grew out of A Million Years and runs on the same engine.
Honest status
Live, and free to explore in the browser at a-million-years.zyric.de.
Stand in a world
Open it in a desktop browser, and you are standing in a world grown from a seed.
Live at a-million-years.zyric.de. Questions go to chris@zyric.de.