Clickwork is a state-of-the-art pixel art point-and-click game engine. The toolset covers everything you need from game design documentation and project task management to visual programming, 3D modeling, and character animation.
Clickwork is currently in active pre-alpha development. Stay tuned for news and updates!
Intuitive / Familiar programming tools
Clickwork supports both Lua and its own powerful visual programming language.
Experienced developers get a familiar Lua workflow, while newcomers can jump straight into visual programming.
Bring your characters to life
You do not need an expensive third-party animation or 3D software license. Instead, Clickwork puts everything you need directly inside the app.
Create animations, sprites, UI panels and cursors directly within the same app for the fastest possible iteration loop.
Next level lighting effects with pixel accuracy
Rim and fill lights and shadows are all supported. And they all work with per pixel accuracy so the look of the art is not compromised.
And because of the 3D nature of the environments, your characters cast accurate shadows in every scene, a level of lighting precision no pixel art adventure game has achieved before.
Volumetric light, glows and fogs add an unprecedented level of visual fidelity to this art aesthetic.
VFX powerhouse
Complex particle effects with scene collisions are here. Particles react to light and scene geometry very convincingly.
They are simple to author, respect the internal resolution of the game and support hand drawn frame-by-frame animations for the most authentic look.
Innovative projection mapped 3D / 2D hybrid scene tools
Clickwork is built for hand-painted backgrounds, and it adds a full third dimension on top. As a result, you can bring genuine depth to flat images without leaving the app.
Traditional projection mapping techniques are directly built in the scene painting environment. The 3D modeling toolset is ultra streamlined for the smoothes possible learning curve for 2D artists immediately get a hang of the third dimension and be able to create without being slowed down by the complexity of the tool!
The layer-based workflow is immediately familiar and you are creating the nice, most modern pixel art environments in no time!
No fluff
The engine is highly streamlined. In fact, it includes only what you need to build a point-and-click game, nothing more, nothing less. There are no unnecessary features or complex workflows to learn.
Only the things that matter are built in. This makes creating games in Clickwork a breeze!
Everything under one roof
Clickwork contains everything you need to a small team / solo developer game project. Pixel, design, programming, 3D modeling, Menu creation and task management is all found within its simple user interface. All you need is to log in and start creating!
External DCC tools are supported with simple import and export features, so in case you want to use your familiar tools, this is also possible.
Cross-platform
Games you build in Clickwork run on PC, Mac, consoles, mobile, and web. In short, you can reach players on any platform with a single build.
The system requirements are also ridiculously low!
