Sky Farm
Mar 2026
An Animal Crossing-inspired pixel idle game with cinematic lighting, bee ecosystems, and anime clouds.
Overview
Sky Farm is a browser-based idle farming game on a floating island above the clouds. Crops grow on their own, three bee species forage wildflowers to produce honey, and chickens lay eggs in their pen. The whole world is drawn procedurally each frame with no sprite sheets.
Direction
The visual style blends Animal Crossing's soft pastel UI with anime-inspired clouds and cinematic golden hour lighting. Frosted glass panels, hand-crafted fabric grass textures, and an 8-layer lighting system that shifts from rose-tinted dawn to golden sunset to moonlit night with fireflies.
What It Explores
Procedural pixel art, multi-species AI ecosystems, real-time cinematic lighting with directional sunlight and vignetting, touch-first idle game design, and smooth pinch-to-zoom camera controls — all in a single TypeScript file with PixiJS v8.