Ember Foundry — Keepers of the Forest
Build a factory. Hold the night siege. Ember Foundry is factory building meets tower defense in a forest, made
with Godot 4. By day you fell trees, lay conveyor belts and raise workshops; by night skeletons march down the road to
your castle, and everything you built fights back. Free early build for Windows and macOS; the game is in Russian.
The game
- Factory. Lumberjacks, quarries, mines, sawmills, smelters, charcoal kilns and forges — 28 production and
logistics buildings. Belts are drawn with the mouse; splitters, mergers, crossings and underground belts route the flow.
Deposits run dry, so the factory keeps moving.
- Defense. 11 tower families with 22 upgrade branches: from crossbows and catapults to a chain harpoon, a Tesla coil
and a forge hammer. Towers gain experience; the castle sends out militia, archers and knights.
- Expedition. Procedural maps hidden in fog of war. Beacons and scouts reveal chests, crystal altars and the enemy
fortress. Win a region by defeating the sixth night's boss or by storming the fortress. Three regions: Emerald Grove,
Amber Valley, Dusk Hills.
- Progression. Coins from every expedition go into a talent atlas of 119 talents; 6 achievements, 5 save slots,
post-victory trials and content mods.
Screenshots
All frames are taken from version 0.9.36 by the game's own capture scripts.
Download
| Platform | Requirements | |
|---|
| Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) | Vulkan-capable GPU, ≈700 MB | Installer |
| macOS | Apple Silicon with macOS 13+ or Intel with macOS 11+, ≈700 MB | Disk image |
The installer is not code-signed yet: if SmartScreen says “Windows protected your PC”, choose More info → Run anyway.
The Mac app is not notarized: allow the first launch in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway
(macOS 15+) or Control-click the app → Open (macOS 13–14). Every release lists SHA-256 checksums.
How it's made
Six weeks from the first prototype (September 15, 2026) to 0.9.36.
- Godot 4.7, Forward+ renderer (Vulkan, Metal), about 25,000 lines of GDScript.
- Code-built art: buildings are assembled by Blender Python scripts (10,000+ lines) with color baked into vertices;
368 models in the build.
- Night look: lighting, LUT color grading, GPU particles and fog of war tuned against reference games.
- Sound: 545 sound files built by a script from licensed recordings.
- Quality: 138 automated test scenarios, frame-pacing probes on real player saves.
- Shipping: one command builds the Windows installer (Inno Setup) and the macOS disk image (on Windows, via WSL),
then checks a sandboxed install, first launch and uninstall of the Windows build and smoke-tests the Mac game pack.
This repository
The game's website (GitHub Pages) and its releases. The game's source code is not public.
index.html, assets/ — a static site with no build step and no dependencies: vanilla JS for the RU/EN switch, the
embers canvas, the day/night slider, the fog-of-war reveal, the lightbox and OS-aware downloads.release.json — the current build: version, files, sizes, SHA-256; the download buttons read it.tools/build_assets.py — turns the game's press shots and clips into AVIF/WebP/JPEG, H.264 and WOFF2 subsets, and
draws the link previews.tools/release.py — publishes a build: a GitHub release with both installers and a fresh release.json.
Credits
Music — Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0 · Characters — KayKit, CC0 · Fonts — Alegreya, SIL OFL ·
Engine — Godot, MIT. The full list of authors and licenses is in the game.
© 2026 Ember Foundry
