Skillbound — A Tiny Valley RPG: Six Skills, No Classes, Gear Is Your Class | Play Free Online
Final Product: Skillbound
Cover
Cover art: the 16:9 key visual generated with GPT Image 2 for the Skillbound world — the hero on the valley path, ringed by six glowing skill emblems for woodcutting, mining, fishing, cooking, smithing and fighting, with his bronze, iron and steel gear tiered beside him.
Gameplay
Actual game: Hearthhollow at first light — the player on the valley path, a gold skilling medallion hovering over every tree, rock, dock and fire, and the skills panel open with Woodcutting, Mining, Fishing, Cooking, Smithing and Fighting all at level 1 of a 50-level cap.
Gameplay
Actual game: locked onto a tree on the north road — the interaction marker rings the trunk while the HUD reads 24/24 health, 0 coins, Fight 1 and Total 6 skills, with the solo · demo flag showing no server is connected.
Gameplay
Actual game: the Gear panel with weapon and armour slots still empty. Every combat number — Attack 0, Strength 4, Defence 0, Health 24, Max hit 6, Fighting level 1 — is derived purely from what is equipped, exactly as the valley promises: no classes, gear is your class.
Skillbound is a browser-native, old-school skill RPG grown from a single sentence: a RuneScape-flavoured valley with skills and no classes, where stats come only from the gear you wear. There is one small valley, one five-step quest, four tiers of metal and six skills that all start at level 1 — and everything you see runs live in the page, with no install and no download.
You spawn in Hearthhollow with a bare fist and a full health bar. Chop the trees on the north road, pull copper and tin out of the rocky clearing, smelt bronze at the smithy shed, then hammer your first sword and armour at the anvil. Fish the lake and cook what you catch before a fight; sell the rest to Aldric's Trading Post for the iron and steel you cannot make yet. Bronze → iron → steel → ogre: your gear tier is your class, your level and your whole build. Cross the forest road, clear the goblin village, then find the hidden grove beyond the lily pond and put the Moss Giant down.
Playing with other people is built in, not bolted on. Point the Online panel at a Skillbound server and the same engine handles accounts, presence, live positions, chat and a two-sided trade window with offer locking; stay offline and the valley runs in solo · demo mode, with AI travellers Mara, Bram and Pip wandering the map beside you.
Play it now: Open the live Skillbound valley → · raw preview build · inspect the world it came from
Game Features
- A Live Valley — Online With Others, or Solo With AI Travellers — point the Online panel at a Skillbound server and the engine handles account creation, login, presence, live positions, chat and a two-sided trade window with offer locking; without a server the same build drops into solo · demo mode and spawns AI travellers Mara, Bram and Pip to walk the map beside you. The whole live layer is plain JavaScript written by Neta Studio’s DeepSeek agent from the world prompt — nothing to compile, nothing to install.
- Six Skills, No Classes — Woodcutting, Mining, Fishing, Cooking, Smithing and Fighting, every one trainable from level 1 to a 50-level cap on a 14·level^1.35 + 10 XP curve. Your HUD reads Total 6 the moment you spawn, and nothing stops you from being a fisher who smiths plate and hunts giants in the same afternoon.
- Gear Is Your Class — Bronze, Iron, Steel, Ogre — combat stats come only from equipped gear. Bronze sword gives Attack 4 / Strength 6 and bronze armour Defence 5 / +8 Health; iron unlocks at Fighting 8, steel at 18 and the ogre club and hide at 25. Unequip and you are back to a bare fist, so every upgrade is something you made or looted yourself.
- A Working Skilling Economy — copper plus tin smelts into bronze bars, iron plus coal into steel, and the smithy shed turns those bars into a sword or a breastplate you can wear. Fishing yields shrimp, trout and lobster from the lake docks, cooking can burn your catch into a crisp, and Aldric’s Trading Post buys every ore, bar, fish, pelt and ring you haul back to the cottage.
- A Five-Step Quest and the Moss Giant — talk to Aldric, train your skills, earn iron gear, cross the forest road to clear the goblin village, then slay the Moss Giant in the hidden grove beyond the lily pond. At 80 HP with steel-sword and ogre-gear drops it is the valley’s real boss — and death is not free: your carried loot drops into a grave you have to walk back to and dig out.
- Zero-Install Browser Runtime with Auto-Save — the whole game is plain JavaScript with no framework and no build step, running on the same painted canvas zones on desktop and mobile. Progress saves automatically on your device, M collapses the minimap, B toggles the floating skilling markers, and you can break off any fight simply by walking away.
Character Sprites
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The player hero — brown leather tunic, green hooded cloak over one shoulder, leather gloves, dark boots and a plain bronze shortsword. Cut out with BiRefNet so he stands on grass, sand or cave floor with a clean edge.
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Goblin — 12 HP, 3 Attack, the first thing most players ever kill. Drops goblin teeth, old boots, copper ore and the occasional bronze sword for Aldric’s Trading Post.
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Skeleton — 32 HP and the valley’s best junk source: ancient coins, rusty keys and ruin shards from the watchtower that fell before anyone remembers.
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Black Bear — 75 HP, 7 Attack and 320 XP. Bear pelts and wolf pelts sell well, and it is the only thing in the woods that occasionally hands you an emerald ring or a glowing orb.
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Aldric — the elder by the cottage who starts the quest chain, runs the Trading Post and buys every stack of ore, fish and goblin teeth you bring home.
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The Moss Giant — 80 HP and 1.65× the size of a player, hiding in the grove beyond the lily pond. Its giant bone finishes the quest and opens its steel-sword and ogre-gear drop table.
Production Process Breakdown
Stage 1: World Buildingclaude-opus-5
Skillbound started as one line — “I would like to create an RPG based on runescape, with skills and no classes, stats come from gear and have tiers and for now we can start with just a very basic world”. Neta Studio turned it into a world: genre, tone and era, a locked English locale, and the Commercial Game Painterly visual style — high-finish game painting, large readable masses, deep chromatic shadows, narrow saturated accents — that every later asset inherits.
Skillbound started as one line — “I would like to create an RPG based on runescape, with skills and no classes, stats come from gear and have tiers and for now we can start with just a very basic world”. Neta Studio turned it into a world: genre, tone and era, a locked English locale, and the Commercial Game Painterly visual style — high-finish game painting, large readable masses, deep chromatic shadows, narrow saturated accents — that every later asset inherits.
Stage 2: Character & Prop Spritesgpt-image-2
Sixteen sprites were generated inside the world’s own painterly style: the player hero, Aldric the elder, goblin, skeleton, black bear and moss giant, plus trees, oaks, yews, copper/tin/iron/coal rocks, a rowboat, campfire and grave marker — each one an isolated figure on a plain background, ready for cutout.
Sixteen sprites were generated inside the world’s own painterly style: the player hero, Aldric the elder, goblin, skeleton, black bear and moss giant, plus trees, oaks, yews, copper/tin/iron/coal rocks, a rowboat, campfire and grave marker — each one an isolated figure on a plain background, ready for cutout.
Stage 3: 4×4 Item Icon Sheetsgpt-image-2
Materials and gear came from two deterministic 4×4 referenced sheets — one layout reference grid, sixteen slots each, row-major — then a content-aware recentre crop with search bleed and bbox padding down to 256px runtime icons. That is where every ore, bar, fish, ring, rune shard and blade in the bag panel comes from.
Materials and gear came from two deterministic 4×4 referenced sheets — one layout reference grid, sixteen slots each, row-major — then a content-aware recentre crop with search bleed and bbox padding down to 256px runtime icons. That is where every ore, bar, fish, ring, rune shard and blade in the bag panel comes from.
Stage 4: Cutout Pass (BiRefNet)birefnet-general
Each character and prop was run through BiRefNet to produce a transparent PNG with a real painted contact shadow, so sprites sit correctly on grass, sand, bog mud and cave floor instead of floating on a rectangle of white.
Each character and prop was run through BiRefNet to produce a transparent PNG with a real painted contact shadow, so sprites sit correctly on grass, sand, bog mud and cave floor instead of floating on a rectangle of white.
Stage 5: World Maps & Zonesgpt-image-2
The valley, its hamlet, the Eastreach woods and the Deepmine were painted as top-down zones, then gridded into walkable collision maps — valley, hamlet, minevalley, eastreach and deepmine — together with the master 48px grid the engine reads to decide what you can walk on, mine, chop or fish.
The valley, its hamlet, the Eastreach woods and the Deepmine were painted as top-down zones, then gridded into walkable collision maps — valley, hamlet, minevalley, eastreach and deepmine — together with the master 48px grid the engine reads to decide what you can walk on, mine, chop or fish.
Stage 6: The Playable Builddeepseek-v4-flash
The engine, renderer, input, UI, quest chain, XP curves, drop tables, economy, graves, saving and the whole online layer — accounts, presence, chat, trading — were written as plain JavaScript modules with no framework and no build step: data, map, engine, audio, ui, net, render, input and main.
The engine, renderer, input, UI, quest chain, XP curves, drop tables, economy, graves, saving and the whole online layer — accounts, presence, chat, trading — were written as plain JavaScript modules with no framework and no build step: data, map, engine, audio, ui, net, render, input and main.
Stage 7: Visual QA & Publishingclaude-opus-5
Automated passes then checked the build in a real browser and on mobile viewports: asset requirements and fit review, semantic visual review, gameplay-loop and mobile-core-loop QA, plus a source-theme risk gate that scans every html, css, js and markdown file to confirm the game ships original names and art before it is published to a shareable URL.
Automated passes then checked the build in a real browser and on mobile viewports: asset requirements and fit review, semantic visual review, gameplay-loop and mobile-core-loop QA, plus a source-theme risk gate that scans every html, css, js and markdown file to confirm the game ships original names and art before it is published to a shareable URL.
Scene Backgrounds
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Scene background: the spawn valley as it was generated for this world — flat green grassland in the centre, a round-canopy forest ring to the north and east, a wide blue lake with two weathered fishing docks to the south, the cottage and fire-stone ring at the middle, the smithy clearing north-west and the dark bog north-east.
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Scene background: the overworld map the engine actually loads — dirt roads forking out of Hearthhollow to a yew stand, copper and iron rocks, fire rings, an oak grove, a lily-pond pool to the east and the torch-lit cave mouth in the southern cliffs that leads to the Deepmine.
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Scene background: the Deepmine — a lamplit chamber under the valley with timber pit props, coal seams and copper-rich veins, dropped pickaxes and bone piles on a dark cave floor, and a lit stairway back up to the surface.
Asset Prompts
Cover Key Art (16:9)gpt-image-2
"16:9 video game cover key art for a fantasy RPG titled “Skillbound”. Scene: a heroic young adventurer with short brown hair, a brown leather tunic, a green hooded cloak over one shoulder, leather gloves and sturdy dark boots, holding a plain bronze shortsword, standing on a dirt path at the heart of a cozy starting valley. Behind him: a timber cottage with a red shingled roof and stone chimney, a ring of blackened fire stones, two weathered wooden fishing docks reaching into a wide blue lake, thick round-canopy forest on the north and east, a bare rocky clearing with an open-front smithy shed glowing warm in the north-west, and a small dark bog with gnarled dead trees in the north-east. Floating around him: six glowing skill emblems for woodcutting, mining, fishing, cooking, smithing and fighting, plus tiered bronze, iron and steel gear glinting. Composition: centered hero, strong readable silhouette, epic wide valley vista, generous negative space at the top. Style: high-finish commercial game painterly fantasy illustration, rich saturated palette, deep chromatic shadows with narrow saturated accents, cinematic key, rim and bounce light, integrated visible brushwork, crisp readable large shapes, RuneScape-inspired low-fantasy charm. No text, no letters, no logos, no watermark, no UI."
"16:9 video game cover key art for a fantasy RPG titled “Skillbound”. Scene: a heroic young adventurer with short brown hair, a brown leather tunic, a green hooded cloak over one shoulder, leather gloves and sturdy dark boots, holding a plain bronze shortsword, standing on a dirt path at the heart of a cozy starting valley. Behind him: a timber cottage with a red shingled roof and stone chimney, a ring of blackened fire stones, two weathered wooden fishing docks reaching into a wide blue lake, thick round-canopy forest on the north and east, a bare rocky clearing with an open-front smithy shed glowing warm in the north-west, and a small dark bog with gnarled dead trees in the north-east. Floating around him: six glowing skill emblems for woodcutting, mining, fishing, cooking, smithing and fighting, plus tiered bronze, iron and steel gear glinting. Composition: centered hero, strong readable silhouette, epic wide valley vista, generous negative space at the top. Style: high-finish commercial game painterly fantasy illustration, rich saturated palette, deep chromatic shadows with narrow saturated accents, cinematic key, rim and bounce light, integrated visible brushwork, crisp readable large shapes, RuneScape-inspired low-fantasy charm. No text, no letters, no logos, no watermark, no UI."
World Map & Spawn Valleygpt-image-2
"Top-down aerial view straight down of a small cozy fantasy RPG starting valley, painted game environment art. Flat green grassland fills the center. The entire north and east borders are thick round-canopy forest, and the south side is a wide blue lake with a pale sand beach edge. Two small weathered wooden fishing docks stick out into the lake: one on the western side of the lake, one on the eastern side; each dock ends in a little cluster of fishing poles. A dirt path runs from the middle of the map south to the beach and forks east and west. Center of the map: one small timber village cottage with a red shingled roof and stone chimney, and right beside it an empty ring of blackened fire stones (no flames). North-west corner: bare rocky brown dirt clearing with scattered pebbles (no boulders, no rocks standing above ground) and a small open-front smithy shed with a stone forge and anvil inside, warm glow. North-east corner: a small dark boggy marsh patch of dark wet mud with two gnarled dead trees and scattered old white bones. Between the village and the east forest edge: open meadow grass. High-finish commercial game painterly style, rich saturated fantasy palette, soft warm daylight, clean readable large shapes, flat even terrain with no hills or cliffs, no people, no animals, no items lying on the ground, no text, no letters, no UI, no grid, no watermark."
"Top-down aerial view straight down of a small cozy fantasy RPG starting valley, painted game environment art. Flat green grassland fills the center. The entire north and east borders are thick round-canopy forest, and the south side is a wide blue lake with a pale sand beach edge. Two small weathered wooden fishing docks stick out into the lake: one on the western side of the lake, one on the eastern side; each dock ends in a little cluster of fishing poles. A dirt path runs from the middle of the map south to the beach and forks east and west. Center of the map: one small timber village cottage with a red shingled roof and stone chimney, and right beside it an empty ring of blackened fire stones (no flames). North-west corner: bare rocky brown dirt clearing with scattered pebbles (no boulders, no rocks standing above ground) and a small open-front smithy shed with a stone forge and anvil inside, warm glow. North-east corner: a small dark boggy marsh patch of dark wet mud with two gnarled dead trees and scattered old white bones. Between the village and the east forest edge: open meadow grass. High-finish commercial game painterly style, rich saturated fantasy palette, soft warm daylight, clean readable large shapes, flat even terrain with no hills or cliffs, no people, no animals, no items lying on the ground, no text, no letters, no UI, no grid, no watermark."
Player Hero Spritegpt-image-2
"Full-body single character game sprite on a plain solid pure white background: a young fantasy adventurer hero, friendly determined face, short brown hair, simple brown leather tunic with a green hooded cloak draped over one shoulder, sturdy dark boots, leather gloves, holding a plain bronze shortsword at his side in one hand. Standing facing the viewer, slight three-quarter front view, full body visible from head to boots, centered with small margin, soft painted contact shadow under the feet. High-finish commercial game painterly style consistent with RuneScape-like fantasy, crisp readable silhouette, warm key light, no text, no watermark, no other characters, no weapons rack, no background scenery."
"Full-body single character game sprite on a plain solid pure white background: a young fantasy adventurer hero, friendly determined face, short brown hair, simple brown leather tunic with a green hooded cloak draped over one shoulder, sturdy dark boots, leather gloves, holding a plain bronze shortsword at his side in one hand. Standing facing the viewer, slight three-quarter front view, full body visible from head to boots, centered with small margin, soft painted contact shadow under the feet. High-finish commercial game painterly style consistent with RuneScape-like fantasy, crisp readable silhouette, warm key light, no text, no watermark, no other characters, no weapons rack, no background scenery."
World Style Prompt — applied to every assetcommercial-game-painterly
"Use high-finish commercial game painting. 1. Establish large readable three-dimensional masses with strong structural separation. 2. Resolve alternating sharp focal edges and lost atmospheric edges without outlines. 3. Organize large readable value groups, deep chromatic shadows, and narrow saturated accents. 4. Apply controlled key, rim, and bounce relationships that preserve form and focal hierarchy. 5. Finish with integrated visible brushwork with distinct metal, leather, cloth, crystal, and organic response." — the world’s base style prompt, prepended to every sprite, prop, icon sheet, zone map and cover generated for Skillbound.
"Use high-finish commercial game painting. 1. Establish large readable three-dimensional masses with strong structural separation. 2. Resolve alternating sharp focal edges and lost atmospheric edges without outlines. 3. Organize large readable value groups, deep chromatic shadows, and narrow saturated accents. 4. Apply controlled key, rim, and bounce relationships that preserve form and focal hierarchy. 5. Finish with integrated visible brushwork with distinct metal, leather, cloth, crystal, and organic response." — the world’s base style prompt, prepended to every sprite, prop, icon sheet, zone map and cover generated for Skillbound.
Why Choose Neta Studio
Professional — a cloud harness runs the whole pipeline from world building to asset generation to publishing with no local setup. Stable access to the latest models: Claude Opus 5, GPT Image 2, BiRefNet and DeepSeek.
One-click generation — tuned skills drive every step: world building, character and prop sprites, deterministic 4×4 icon sheets, painted zone maps, BiRefNet background cutout and packaging. Shared world resources are built in, so a sprite or an icon made once is reused by the engine, the UI and the marketing page alike.
Community-first — build unlimited worlds and remix any public one. Skillbound itself began as one sentence; the valley, the quest, the drop tables and the online layer were all generated from it, and the next creator can fork the world and take it somewhere else entirely.
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