Shackleton crater rim · the lunar south pole · free in your browser
Moonbase One
Two crews, two Starships, one Moon. Haul the ice, build as you go, and launch first.
Bots hold every empty seat · one tap and you are in
Phone · computer · TV
Play it on anything. Put it on the TV.
Nothing to download and nothing to install: Moonbase One runs in the browser you already have, and everyone who presses Play meets in the same public room.
On your phone
Drag anywhere on the left two thirds: the stick appears under your thumb. BOOST and BUILD sit on the right.
Point your phone’s camera at the code, or open official.homie.rocks/moonbase-one/play.
You are on it: press Play above.
On your computer
WASD or arrows drive (up is always up), Space or Shift boosts; B or Tab opens BUILD, R rotates a piece, Z undoes.
On the TV
- Open official.homie.rocks/moonbase-one/tv in the TV’s browser, or on a laptop plugged into it.
- Scan the code it shows with your phone’s camera.
- Play on your phone. Everyone on the couch joins the same way, up to 12 drivers, and the TV shows the whole room.
The big screen shows the whole field and both fuel gauges; phones drive the rovers.
Live rooms
Rooms open the moment you press Play
No one is in a room this minute. Press Play and you start at once, with bots in the empty seats; whoever presses Play next takes a bot’s place in your room.
How to play
Build the base. Haul the ice. Launch first.
Two Starships have landed on the rim of Shackleton crater, and neither has the propellant to get home. In a public room that becomes a race between two crews of rovers: load ice at the glowing cold traps, drive it onto your ship's pad to make oxygen, and build as you go, with drills that mine for your crew, depots out by the ice, roads you drive faster on and walls that fence the other crew out. The first ship full lifts off, engines, plume and dust, and the next shift starts by itself. The Moon's ground is made in code when the game is built, and every other texture, mesh and sound on it as the page loads.
- Park in a glowing cold trap to load ice: three cores fit on a deck.
- Drive onto your ship's pad ring to turn them into fuel.
- Open BUILD to put a drill, a depot, a road or a wall down in front of your rover: one tap places it, one rotates it, one undoes it.
- BOOST into the other crew's rover to spin it out and spill its cargo.
- The first crew to fill its ship launches; otherwise the fuller ship flies when the clock runs out.
- free, in the browser
- bots fill empty seats
- join any time: take a bot’s place
- rounds restart on their own
- phones as controllers on a TV
Credits
Who made Moonbase One
Made by
Homie Official · The house's own games
- Game: Homie
- The Moon's ground: generated in code when the game is built
- Every other texture, mesh and sound effect: generated in code as the page loads
- Shift music and the flight director: ElevenLabs (Creator plan, commercial rights)
- 3D: three.js
- Post-processing: pmndrs postprocessing and N8AO
Built with
Homie’s open engine: @homie-rocks/studio (rooms, netplay, the big screen), Apache-2.0.