Napoland Is Now Open Source

Napoland is an online exploration game made for phones and played in the browser. Starting today, the whole game is public on GitHub: the code under the AGPL-3.0, the maps and items under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0, and the roadmap alongside them.

The game

You live in Stonebrook, a small town at the edge of a dark Pacific Northwest forest. Out there, under the firs and the rain, mushrooms glow, abandoned cars rust by the old road and a few cabins keep a fire burning.

The farther you walk, the better the finds — and the faster your energy drains. So every trip is a choice: one more find, or turn back now. Nothing on screen tells you where you are; you learn the world by walking it. There are no fights and no player-versus-player: other players are only ever help.

It needs nothing but a browser. Open napoland.com, sign in with a six-digit code sent to your email, and play with a joystick and two buttons.

Why open source

A game about exploring a shared world should be shaped by the people who explore it. With the code, the maps and the roadmap in the open, anyone can see where Napoland is going — and help take it there.

How to contribute

Pull requests are welcome, and not only for code: maps, items, ideas, bug reports and play-testing on real phones all count.

• Start with the contributing guide: how to set up, the checks every change passes and how pull requests are reviewed.
• The roadmap is a folder in the repository, one file per item, each with its status — done, now, next, planned or idea. To propose something, open a pull request.
• Pick something from the open issues.

Run it on your computer

You need Node.js 24 and git:

git clone https://github.com/napoland-com/napoland.git
cd napoland
npm install
npm run dev

The game opens at localhost:5173, with the game server on port 8080. Open a second tab to see two players — or your phone on the same Wi-Fi.

About the licenses

The code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or later: you can study, change and share it, and if you run a changed version as an online service, you offer its source to its players too. The world itself — maps, rooms, items and their texts — is shared under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Either way, improvements come back to everyone who plays.