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Manga Craft

Draw. Dig. Build your manga.

A voxel sandbox drawn like a hand-inked manga page. Type a Story Code, open a fresh Volume, and step onto a page of black ink, screentone and bold colour. Every hill, tree and cave is a block you can dig, carry and place.

App StoreComing soon
Google PlayComing soon

Manga Craft is not released yet. These are not download links — there is nothing to download today.

What it is

Everything here
is a block.

Dig it, carry it, put it back somewhere better. Every hit lands with a katakana sound burst, and every combo fills the screen with speed lines.

  • A hundred blocks. Five genres. Villages, Flashback Dungeons, caves and open sea.
  • Water, lava and ink fire. Rivers flow, lakes spread, lava creeps through the deep caverns and sets wood alight with black ink fire. Carry both in buckets. Pour them together and watch them freeze into stone.
  • A day that turns. Twenty minutes from dawn to dawn, with arc banners announcing each new chapter.
  • Made for your hands. A thumb stick, tap to hit, drag to look, one button to switch between digging and placing. Plays on desktop too.
TreeTrunk and canopy. Chop it down, plant it again.
WoodPlanks for walls, floors and the Artist's Desk.
GlassFired clear. Light gets through; the shadows do not.
StoneCheap, heavy, and what a wall wants to be by nightfall.

Biomes are genres

The world is stitched
from manga genres.

Each genre has its own blocks, weather, music and creatures. Walk far enough and the page you are standing on changes what kind of story it tells.

Slice-of-Life

Meadows with sakura. Where you start, and where you come home to.

Samurai

Peaks and bamboo. Thin air, hard stone, long views.

Horror

Marshes where the shadows move. Ink riches, if you are brave about it.

Gag

Deserts full of nonsense. Nothing here is trying to be sensible.

Mecha

Ruins of steel and neon. Somebody built all this, and then left.

Villages

Notice boards, quest-giving Editors, and golden animals worth chasing.

Draw, don't grid

There is no
crafting grid.

You sit at the Artist's Desk and draw what you want from the pages of your Sketchbook.

  • Find lost Sketch Pages in Flashback Dungeons to learn new drawings.
  • Fire clay in the Kiln.
  • Ink better pens — pencil, brush, G-pen — to dig faster and deeper.

Survive the night

Hearts, hunger
and breath.

Cook food, sleep on a Futon to set your respawn, and light the dark with Ink Lanterns.

At night the KAGEBOU come — living shadows — along with rolling DORON and spiky TOGERON. Fight them with the Brushblade, or build walls and wait for dawn.

  • They telegraph before they strike. You get to read the panel first.
  • They poof into ink when they go. Nothing here bleeds.

Faceless by design

Nobody in Manga Craft
has a face. Not you,
not the villagers,
not the creatures.
The story is yours to draw.

Silhouette does all the work

No eyes, no mouth, no nose — on anything, from any angle. What is left is shape: how heavy something stands, how it leans, how fast it looks before it moves. Turn the models on this page and look for a face. You will not find one.

It is also why every creature has to earn its outline. A bunny and a shadow demon cannot be the same box in two sizes.

The Story Code

Any code opens the same world for anyone.

Every world saves as a Volume on your bookshelf, and every Volume has a Story Code. Send a friend the number and they get your world — the same hills, the same caves, the same villages.

An example code. Tap below to roll another.

  • No account. No sign-up. Tap play, type a code, or leave it blank.
  • Story Codes are numbers. Nothing you type leaves the device.

Manga Craft Plus

An optional subscription. It lends you every Sealed Suit and every boost for as long as you subscribe, and turns off the sponsor pages.

It never sells you progress or in-game money: Zenii is earned, never bought, and sketch pages are found, never purchased.

The base game is complete without it.

That is the whole pitch.
The rest of it you draw.