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Arcanum: The Eightfold Trial is a playable browser prototype using the project's original card artwork and elemental frames.

Stone Tiles · Poly Haven

Stone surface color, normal and roughness maps by Christopher Melani. Downloaded at 1K and bundled locally. Licensed under CC0 1.0.

Original asset · Poly Haven license · Powered by Poly Haven

Casino Audio · Kenney

Card placement, sliding, shuffling and chip impact sounds by Kenney. Licensed under CC0 1.0. Original audio files are bundled locally.

Original asset pack · Kenney's OpenGameArt mirror · Included license

Magic & ambience

Five additional CC0 recordings: Magic Spell SFX by JaggedStone, Earth Element Magic Spell by qubodup, and Ambient Relaxing Loop by isaiah658.

Magic Spell SFX · Earth magic · Ambient loop

The Gilded Sanctuary

Six original raster assets were generated specifically for this release: the sanctuary environment, solar crest, interface plaque, summoning seal, obsidian tabletop and card back. Optimized PNG and WebP files are bundled locally. The scene, elemental foil shader and particle animations were authored for Arcanum.

Complete asset sources · Generation prompts

Elemental combat

Directional barriers, return strikes, restoration and lifesteal effects, class choreography, seeded artwork variations, procedural flame and foil shaders, cut crystal models, cast trajectories, impact fragments and synthesized audio layers were authored for Arcanum. These additions use local code and require no additional downloads or services.

Three.js

Real-time WebGL rendering powered by Three.js r180, under the MIT license. The engine is included in this site package.

Three.js · Included MIT license

Type & artwork

Grenze, Cinzel, Barlow, Shippori Mincho and Teko use the SIL Open Font License. The card art, frames and Arcanum branding come from this project's existing collection; their rights remain with their respective owners.

Grenze license · Cinzel license · Barlow license · Shippori license · Teko license