WELCOME, TRAVELLER

A little curiosity.
A whole universe.

Discover Star Kitsune, explore real engine views, or jump into a free arcade prototype. Choose your own route.

A space exploration project and custom engine in active development.

A white-and-blue explorer with solar arrays, a ring structure and long antenna booms on a dark Workshop background. — Wayfarer explorer · Native Ship Workshop · Development build

The full exploration engine is in development. The two browser arcade prototypes are playable now.

Listen to our Starblaze MIDI arrangements →

THE PROJECT

From distant stars
to solid ground.

Star Kitsune brings together an evolving science fiction universe, playable experiments, and the technology that makes them possible. Its engine work connects planetary terrain, spaceflight, walkable environments, procedural spacecraft, and astronomical views.

The project is being built in public-facing pieces. The native desktop engine is the main development focus; the two free browser Raids offer a smaller arcade experience you can try today.

This is a work in progress. Screenshots show development builds; the full exploration experience is not a browser release.

01 — EXPLORE

Orbit to ground

Native Flight connects space, atmosphere, landing and walking. Current work brings procedural foliage and rocks to planetary surfaces and refines terrain continuity on moons.

02 — DISCOVER

A sky with depth

Photo Mode explores generated celestial subjects, from stellar surfaces to black hole disks and lensing. Camera and optics tools offer another way to experience the universe.

03 — INHABIT

Places with purpose

Procedural ships, walkable interiors and surface expeditions bring the scale back to the traveller. The wider project also includes Fair Lands, a shared generated world.

Explore the screenshots →Try a prototype

DIRECT FROM THE ENGINE

The fleet,
up close.

4K ships, cockpits and interiors. Lossless images.

White-and-blue Wayfarer explorer with solar arrays, a ring structure and antenna booms. — Wayfarer · Explorer
Native Ship Workshop · 6 November 2026 · 4K
The Wayfarer EX-05 explorer in its Agency livery. Captured in the fleet Workshop.

Pilot-seat view of a joystick, throttle and illuminated controls on the Wayfarer cockpit console. — Wayfarer · Cockpit controls
Native Ship Workshop · 6 November 2026 · 4K
The explorer’s pilot controls, with joystick, throttle and instrument hardware. Captured in the fleet Workshop.

Close view of two dark cabin seats, armrests and orange trim inside the Wayfarer explorer. — Wayfarer · Cabin seating
Native Ship Workshop · 6 November 2026 · 4K
A cabin seating study inside the explorer’s forward pressure-room section. Captured in the fleet Workshop.

Large Ark capital carrier with twin side hulls and a central spine. — Ark · Capital carrier
Native Ship Workshop · 6 November 2026 · 4K
The Ark CV-01 capital carrier, seen from outside. Captured in the fleet Workshop.

Cutaway view of four connected forward rooms, walls, doors and controls in the Ark carrier. — Ark · Forward rooms
Native Ship Workshop · 6 November 2026 · 4K
A cutaway of the carrier’s forward pressure rooms, rather than a complete capital-ship deck plan. Captured in the fleet Workshop.

Atlas freighter with teal, yellow and white cargo modules behind its crew section. — Atlas · Container freighter
Native Ship Workshop · 6 November 2026 · 4K
The Atlas CF-09 container freighter in its Expedition livery. Captured in the fleet Workshop.

Close view of the Atlas pilot’s throttle, joystick and console against the cabin floor. — Atlas · Cockpit controls
Native Ship Workshop · 6 November 2026 · 4K
The freighter’s pilot controls, using the shared cockpit hardware. Captured in the fleet Workshop.

White Lifeline rescue cutter with red engine ends and red-and-yellow equipment pods. — Lifeline · Rescue cutter
Native Ship Workshop · 6 November 2026 · 4K
The Lifeline SAR-12 cutter in its Rescue livery. Captured in the fleet Workshop.

Cutaway view through the rescue cutter’s connected forward rooms, doors and wall-mounted equipment. — Lifeline · Forward interior
Native Ship Workshop · 6 November 2026 · 4K
A cutaway of the rescue cutter’s forward interior section. Captured in the fleet Workshop.

Pale-green tree canopies and grass beside a parked ship, with a development overlay. — Among the trees
Native Flight · Surface study · November 2026
Trees, grass and a parked ship on a generated forest surface. Captured during a controlled wind study.

Downward detail view of purple fungal caps, scattered trees and rocks on a green wetland surface. — A different kind of undergrowth
Native Flight · Ground detail · November 2026
Purple fungal clusters, trees and rocks in a wetland biome. A downward ground-detail development capture.

A landed skiff and scattered gray rocks on a moon, with a large blue parent planet overhead, a star field and the development HUD visible. — A world above the moon
Native Flight · 1 November 2026
Landed on a generated airless moon, with its parent world overhead. Development interface retained.

A cyan pressure display, labelled equipment racks, and door and vent controls on Happy Star’s engineering console. — Engineering, up close
Native Ship Workshop · October 2026
Happy Star’s engineering console, inside a three-room station interior prototype.

A small spacecraft above the curved planetary horizon in Native Flight, with the flight interface visible. — A planet below your feet
Native Flight · 31 October 2026
Ordinary flight at 120 km altitude, above the retained planetary world.

A close view across pale sloping ground during a walking session, with the ship shown as 61 metres behind. — Down on the surface
Native Flight · 31 October 2026
Walking on the same body. The development interface is left visible.

A procedural survey spacecraft with twin engines, solar panels and a dish, suspended in a star field. — Made for the journey
Native Photo · October 2026
A procedural survey ship, viewed through the native Photo route.

A bright stellar globe with a textured luminous surface and curved prominence loops in Native Photo Mode. — Closer to the fire
Native Photo · 22 October 2026
A stellar appearance model with surface structure and prominence loops.

A luminous accretion disk bends around a black hole against a field of golden stars. — At the edge of light
Native Photo · 22 October 2026
A black hole’s accretion disk and lensing, viewed through native Photo Mode.

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Captured in Star Kitsune. Captions identify the route and date; each image represents its own development build. Flight, Photo and Workshop use different viewing modes.

Image quality & credits

The new fleet views were captured at 3840 × 2160. Gallery images and the enlarged viewer use lossless originals; older captures retain their original source resolution.

Cockpit hardware includes DIY HOTAS by Banjer21 (CC BY 4.0) and Adafruit CAD Parts (MIT). Adapted by Star Kitsune contributors through CAD tessellation, placement and display materials. Full credits and modification notices · Adafruit MIT notice · Original hardware MIT notice · CC BY license.

FUN PROTOTYPES

Choose your
next sortie.

Two free arcade experiments. No download, account or payment required.

Terrain Raid

Skim the terrain, destroy outposts and survive each sector. Choose your deck, then build up your craft with upgrades.

Open the arcade page

Starbase Raid

Steer through the orbital playfield, engage enemy craft and destroy every starbase. Watch your shield, lives and radar.

Open the arcade page

Before you launch

Touch, keyboard or standard controller supported. Phones and tablets get an on-screen thumbstick and action buttons.

Both games include remappable controls, difficulty and assists, optional sound, and a pause menu. Flight uses visual aiming; menus and status also appear as text.

Controls and accessible play options

On touch screens, drag the left thumbstick to steer and use Fire on the right. Terrain Raid also has roll buttons. Use Weapons to arm or disarm, and Pause for settings or help. Use Fullscreen for more room; Exit fullscreen returns to the menu layout. Browsers without fullscreen use an expanded view instead. Enable Touch controls in the game menu if they do not appear. With a keyboard, use WASD or arrow keys to steer and Space to fire. P or controller Start pauses. Use Tab and Enter for menus. Choose Difficulty & assists for gentler enemy fire, slower speed or a practice shield. The game’s How to play menu explains each mode.

When playing here, “Back to prototype menu” stops the current session and sound. Leaving the Prototypes section also ends the session. Your saved preferences remain.

UNDER THE HOOD

One project.
Many ways to explore.

An engine-neutral C++ core produces the world and simulation data. Native Vulkan, Godot and browser/WebAssembly frontends put those systems to work in different settings.

Development currently centres on the native desktop experience, shared world data, physical terrain and collision, rendering, spacecraft systems, and the tools used to inspect and capture them.

Different modes are at different stages. The browser arcade prototypes are available now; the larger engine and exploration systems remain in development.

World & simulation: Engine-neutral C++ core
Main development focus: Native desktop / Vulkan
Other frontends: Godot and browser / WebAssembly

Back to the bigger picture →

A LITTLE STARBLAZE FOR YOUR ORBIT

The music
room.

Galactic Fox: Starblaze Mission v4.2.1, played from our original MIDI notes with a soft synth palette.

Choose an arrangement

Press Play to listen. Nothing starts automatically.

These are rendered MIDI arrangements with the original changing tempo. Vocal lines are played as instruments. The original vocal recording has its own sound.

Also available in both Raids: Pause → Sound → Score. In native Star Kitsune: Settings → Music track → MIDI full or instrumental arrangement.

Original MIDI files & render notes

Read the source and render notes →

Take the music into a Raid →← Back to main menu

HELP KEEP THE ENGINES RUNNING

Follow
the journey.

Enjoy the experiments? You can support ongoing Star Kitsune development on Ko-fi.

Support on Ko-fi ↗

The prototypes are free to play. Supporting the project is optional.

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MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

A more comfortable
way to explore.

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A little curiosity.
A whole universe.

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