An exergame from Animalab · in development

Planet
Homestead

Run by day. Come home by evening.

You're Alex, alone on an empty planet. You explore it on foot, and that means your own feet: a webcam watches you squat, jump and run in place, and Alex does the same on screen. You bring home whatever you find and slowly turn a clearing into a home.

Gameplay screenshot: pixel-art Alex running across a grassy side-scrolling level toward a chicken
Current build · a run, mid-stride
By day · the run

Your body is the controller.

No gamepad and no special hardware. Pose tracking (MediaPipe) runs right in the browser and reads your movement through the webcam.

Squat

Your real squats move Alex through the run.

Jump

Jump in your living room, and Alex jumps on screen.

Run

Run on the spot to keep Alex running.

Parkour runs

Side-scrolling stages you get through with your own body.

A boss arena

A boss you face with your whole body.

The canyon

Another stage to run through.

Found along the way:materialsanimalsstranded people

3–5 minute runs.

Each run is short enough to squeeze in. Do a few a day and it adds up to real exercise.

By evening · the base

Then you go home and keep it running.

Everything you carried back goes into the base. That's the other half of the game.

Gameplay screenshot: Alex standing in a small grassy clearing with logs, rocks, bare trees and a broken-down hut
Current build · the base on day one

Build rooms, give people jobs

The people you rescued need work. Build rooms and assign someone to run each one.

Farm and keep animals

Grow crops that change with the seasons, and raise the animals you brought back.

Survive

Food, water, winter, and things that wear out. Stay home too long and the base slowly falls apart.

The loop

Every day goes the same way.

1

Run

3–5 minutes of real movement.

2

Bring it home

Materials, animals, people.

3

Build & tend

Rooms, jobs, crops, animals.

4

It wears down

So you go out again.

↻ and back to 1

The run is the point.
The base is the reason to run.