Studio BomulBang presents
A quiet collecting game about finding small things in a gentle world.
In-engine screenshot (Godot 4), work in progress
The game
An old naturalist leaves you a cabin at the edge of a forest, a sleepy cat, and a letter. Their field journal is full of things they saw, and a few things they never found.
You pack a backpack, choose a companion, and walk out into a connected world. You collect minerals, flowers, mushrooms, insects, fish, fossils, recipes and old curios, about four hundred entries in all. Each one is found by hand and written into the same journal the old owner started.
There is no shop to sell to and nothing to grind. You collect because finding things is the fun part.
Rare finds switch to a close first-person view right where you stand. Chip a crystal free, lift a flower by its roots, reel a fish in and let it go. Each kind of find has its own small, tactile motion. The first one, ice fishing, is shown below.
Entries fill in slowly, from a trace to a glimpse to a specimen in hand. Specimens go into drawer cabinets you can open, and favourites go on shelves you arrange yourself.
A day passes in about half an hour, and weather leaves marks behind: wet paths the morning after rain, snow that stays. Long seasons turn slowly, and some things only appear at certain times.
Animals are watched through a spyglass, never caught. Insects and fish are released. Food comes from the forest, the garden, and neighbours who share.
A faint light runs under the valley. A small creature formed from it knew the old owner, and it quietly points the way.
Progress comes from tools you make yourself at the forge, guided by clues from old maps, notes and neighbours. You never unlock areas by filling a percentage.
In motion
A single take from the engine. Nothing is cut or composited: the same scene moves from morning to noon, clouds over, rains, dries out the next morning, turns to evening, and then snows. Snow settles on every surface by rule, and the character changes into winter clothes on her own.
Ice fishing on a frozen pond. You walk up to the hole, and the view drops into first person: wait for a bite, pull, look at what you caught, and let it go. Recorded in-engine; this is a look prototype, not finished gameplay.
Screenshots
All images are captured directly from the game in Godot 4. There is no paintover or concept art. Time of day and weather are live systems: when it snows, the same rules cover the ground, plants, trees and rocks, and the character changes into winter clothes.
Making of
Characters are built once in 3D, then turned into pixel art by code. The rig, camera, palette and pixel grid are fixed in scripts, so every direction and every frame comes out as the same character. When something looks wrong we change the rule and re-run it, instead of painting over the output.
The same corner of the first scene at three points in development. Every frame is a straight capture from the engine.
Counted from the project repository.
Development
Glimmer Hollow is in early development. We set the visual target first, then the design, and the vertical slice comes next. Milestones are listed oldest first.
Walk cycles from the character pipeline: summer and winter clothes
The first walkable forest path. The character goes from concept to 3D model to rig to pixel sprite, and responds to sun and leaf shade.
Home and expeditions, one gentle stamina bar, first-person collecting moments, the field journal and cabinets, scattered neighbours, and the story of the old naturalist.
New trees and bark, dappled sunlight, a muddy path, puddles that reflect the canopy, a textured forest floor and a stream that drops over a step of stones. Clear, overcast, rain and after-rain share one lighting setup.
Conifers, a frozen pond and a trodden path. Snow settles on everything by rule, falls in three depth layers, and the character changes into winter clothes.
A hole in the frozen pond, a branch rod, and a brook trout. The camera drops into first person for the bite, the pull and the release.
Roadmap
Studio
Studio BomulBang is an independent one-person studio based in South Korea, founded in 2026 and run by minbang930. Glimmer Hollow is our first game, built in Godot.
We use Claude Code throughout our development workflow, from gameplay programming and debugging to asset creation. In practice, I set the direction and approve results; Claude Code writes the scenes, scripts, shaders and pipeline tools, then runs the game headless, captures screenshots, compares them with our reference images and iterates until they match. Every decision, including the failed attempts, is written down in the project docs so the next session picks up where the last one stopped.
Art follows strict rules written as code: a fixed pixel grid, palette constraints, and generators we tune and re-run rather than hand-fixing their output. That keeps the look consistent as the world grows.