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Aldenhaven.

The kingdom of Veldenmark

A world
built on stone.

A single-player, skill-based 2D browser RPG. A quarry-born capital. Roads into a wider world. Work, danger, and stories cut into the land.

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Crownsteel rock from the game's ore artwork, threaded with gold. — Gold-threaded steel.
The seam that paid for the walls.Game artwork

Single player / Browser RPGScroll to discover

01 / The proposition

A place to learn.
A world to read.

Aldenhaven brings gathering, making, combat and exploration into the same world. Mine ore and work it at the forge. Fish, grow crops and cook. Train your skills, equip for the road and discover the country beyond the walls.

Veldenmark has a history you encounter in play: through its people, its workings, its ledgers and the words carved into stone.

Format: 2D browser RPG
Experience: Single player
Setting: Veldenmark

02 / A country with a past

Beyond the walls.

A capital above.
Workings below.
Roads between.

Aldenhaven's town square with its well, noticeboard, people and surrounding paths. — The walled capital of Veldenmark. A town that was a working before it was a capital.

Work in progress. Captures from different development reviews.

The capital

Before the walls,
there was the quarry.

The first shaft was sunk before the first stretch of wall. Crownsteel paid for both; the coin struck from that seam gave the realm its Crowns.

The country

Each road has
its own character.

North, the haul road climbs towards the workings. South, the Common leads towards the Tilth. West, the reed door opens onto the Mereside. East lies the Wildmarch.

Below

The surface is
only one layer.

The world overview has a Below layer, revealed through discovery. Far beneath the surface, the Velt keep their green neverfire.

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The project's route diagram shows named regions and connections, including places discovered later in play. It is a development reference, not a surveyed landscape.

Development diagram showing surface regions and the Below layer, connected by routes. Open the full-size image in a new tab.

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03 / The game

Learn the work.
Know the ground.

Skills, equipment and journeys
share the same world.

Gather & make

Mine, cut wood, fish and farm. Smelt ore, smith equipment, cook food and prepare draughts. Skills and materials connect work in the field to work at the bench.

Resources → craft

Train & equip

Melee, ranged and magic offer different ways to fight. Fighting styles direct skill experience; tools and equipment belong to their own progression.

Skills → equipment

Travel & discover

Click to move through connected regions. Routes can depend on items, gates or a scheduled ferry. Travel to visited places follows the roads in real time.

Roads → discovery

Listen & read

Talk to the people who live here. Read the noticeboards, memorials, ledgers and marker stones. The world's history is found in places, objects and conversations.

Place → story

04 / What the town remembers

One gate.
Barred at dusk.

East of the walls, the Wildmarch was farmland once. Then came the Wane: nine years in which the march country gave nothing.

Since then, the east gate has been barred at dusk and opened at first light. Nobody in Aldenhaven knows what caused those years. The country keeps its own record.

Quarry rights / Veldenmark
What you dig
you may keep;
what you find
you are supposed
to declare.
From the established lore

Aldenhaven / Development capture

05 / A world in the making

Built in the browser.
Still being built.

Aldenhaven is in active development. The game already brings together exploration, skills, gathering, production, combat, quests and local saving. Its visual presentation continues to evolve.

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The foundation

Plain JavaScript, Canvas 2D and DOM interface panels. No engine, framework, bundler or runtime dependency.

The craft

Procedural rendering works alongside local artwork. Development reviews examine materials, buildings, creatures, people and how they read in play.

The story

Established lore is recorded separately from technical state. Some questions have answers to discover; others are deliberately left open.

In development. No release date is announced on this page.

A development view beneath the surface: dark rock, mine openings, a creature and the player.

Veldenmark / Above and below

The first shaft.
The first wall.
Aldenhaven.

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Below / Development capture

Aldenhaven.

A worldbuilt on stone.

A place to learn.A world to read.