Campfire Simulator

A night in the woods in VR. Build a campfire from tinder, kindling and logs, strike sparks from two rocks, and keep it burning.

A virtual reality game for Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S, played with Touch controllers. By JunkDrawerDev. On the Meta Horizon Store.

What's in it

• A clearing in a pine forest at night, under a real star map and the Milky Way.
• A fire that burns the way fires do: it needs dry tinder, air and the right size of wood, and wet wood fights it.
• Sparks struck from two rocks, an axe for felling trees and splitting wood, and armloads of logs to carry.
• Cooking on roasting sticks, tea in a billy on the grill, and water from a spring to put the fire out.
• Rain showers, a tent, a lantern, a head torch, a guitar, owls, a fox and a stag.

How to play

• Move with the left thumbstick. Turn with the right thumbstick.
• Pick things up with the grip button (the trigger works too). Let go to drop.
• Light the fire: put tinder down, swing one rock fast past the other just over it to throw sparks, and when it starts to smoulder, hold X to blow on it (or fan it with your hand).
• Feed it kindling first, then sticks, then logs. The axe and the rocks are on the chopping stump by the woodpile.
• A jumps, B sits you back down on the log, and a tap of Y (or clicking a thumbstick) switches the head torch on and off.
• Hold Y until it buzzes for the camp menu: rain, a comfort vignette, difficulty, how to play, restart and credits. Hold it again to close it.
• A sign by your seat explains everything else, in the game.

In real life, only light fires where they're allowed, and kids only with a grown-up.

Support

Questions, problems or ideas? Email (the contact address is being set up).

Privacy

No accounts, ads, analytics, tracking, chat or online play, and no microphone. The game collects no personal information from anyone. Read the full privacy policy.

Credits and licences

Music

"Kindling" and "Ambient", made for the game by Sam.

Sound of the fire

"Campfire sound ambience" by Glaneur de sons, from Wikimedia Commons, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0). Trimmed and looped for the game.

Everything else you hear and see

All the other sounds, and the fox and stag, were given to the public domain (CC0) by their makers. Thank you to:

MrFossy, sound368 and Marcuspepsi, yfjesse, JesterWhoo, xkeril, Hano_van_Dalen, ozymandias37, Freeman213SG, ivanmilic, squashy555, qubodup, bbrocer, SugarKookiesTheDestroyrOfWrlds, R1nkata, marlonnnnnn, joe_anderson22, thomashill1, axiologus, Mish7913, brachern, Reitanna, AlecCorday, lmryan3, Sadiquecat, XiiiSamples, Vrymaa, JohnsonBrandEditing, bassimat, Ekrcoaster, Sassaby, levi_cunha, CaptainYulef, melle_teich, yaya-dc, kyles, TRP, mikala_oidua, SpeedY, SoundsLikeYukon, felix.blume, SpaceJoe, ZoshP, GUS_MAN, Joshua_van_Zyl, CarloVan19, Katerios, Alex_hears_things, nahmandub, sinewave1kHz, Kinoton, Profispiesser, KrystianPawlowski, ventousawins and deadrobotmusic on Freesound; the Virtuosity Drums sample library; and Quaternius for the fox and stag models.

Every source is listed in sounds/CREDITS.txt and models/CREDITS.txt.

The stars

The bright stars are from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue (5th revised edition, Hoffleit and Warren, 1991), from NASA's Astronomical Data Center, public domain. Their colours use the temperature formula by Ballesteros (2012) and the eye's colour-matching curves as fitted by Wyman, Sloan and Shirley (2013). The fainter stars and the Milky Way are made for the game.

Software

• three.js, MIT licence: licence text.
• Rapier physics by Dimforge, Apache License 2.0: licence text.