Dune Company
BYTE BARD / VEHICLE SANDBOX
DUNE COMPANY
Build it. Drive it.
Leave your mark.
Your workshop. Your machine. An open stretch of sand.
Build a vehicle from the ground up, take it for a drive, and come back with a better idea.
Vehicle building Deformable sand In development
THE SANDBOX
Build. Test. Rebuild.
What this game is going for: A vehicle-building and sand-driving simulation for players who enjoy experimenting with mechanical designs, testing their handling, and improving them through trial and error.
Connection to the Simulation theme: Dune Company explores vehicle construction and driving as an interconnected sandbox: assemble and tune a machine, test its handling on deformable sand, and use the results to refine your design. Tyre tracks and wind-driven sand recovery make the terrain part of the simulation.
Start with a single block. Add a frame, engine, seat and wheels. Then find out what your creation can do.
01 / Build your machine
Place, rotate and tune parts in the workshop. Experiment with your design, one piece at a time.
02 / Take it into the dunes
Accelerate, brake, steer and drift across deformable sand. Leave tyre tracks that the wind gradually fills back in.
03 / Make it better
Recover your vehicle, return to the workshop and refine your next build.
FIRST DRIVE
From workshop to sand.
- Click inside the game to activate input and audio.
- Build a vehicle, or load one using the workshop folder button.
- Add a seat, an engine and at least two wheels. Connect steering wheels through a steering hinge.
- Press B or the workshop Play button to drive.
- Return near the starting area and press B to build again.
FIELD REFERENCE
Know your controls.
Driving
| W / S | Accelerate / reverse |
| A / D | Steer |
| Space | Brake |
| Shift | Drift |
| R | Recover vehicle |
| B | Build / drive |
| Right / middle drag | Look around |
| Escape | Release mouse |
Workshop
| Click part + surface | Place part |
| Right / middle drag | Orbit |
| Mouse wheel | Zoom |
| R / F / G | Rotate placement |
| T | Change attaching face |
| Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Y | Undo / redo |
| Delete | Remove selected part |
| Toolbar | Move, copy, erase, tune |
PLAYTEST NOTES
An evolving sandbox.
This is an early experimental build. Features, vehicle handling and performance are still being tested.
Playing in your browser? Use a desktop browser with WebGL 2, a keyboard and a mouse. Allow time for the initial download. The browser version uses reduced graphics settings. For higher visual quality, we recommend downloading the Windows build.
JOIN THE PLAYTEST
Your next build starts with feedback.
Tell us what you built and how it drove in the comments below. Include your browser and whether the game loaded. Found a bug? Share the steps to reproduce it and a screenshot if possible.
Made by Byte Bard · Built to experiment.
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