feat: IceCraft — a Minecraft-style ice world with large ice castles

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❄ IceCraft

A self-contained, browser-based Minecraft-style voxel sandbox set in a frozen world of endless snow, frozen lakes, and large procedurally-generated ice castles. Built with Three.js (vendored locally) and plain ES modules — no build step. Lives in the new ice-craft/ folder and is playable by serving the repo and opening /ice-craft/.

Why a browser/WebGL game (not Unity): this repo's deployable surface is a static GitHub Pages site, and a web game can be run and visually verified in CI/headless Chrome. The existing phone-gift site at the repo root is left untouched.

Features

• Chunked voxel world (16×16 columns, 64 tall), per-face-culled meshing, dynamic chunk load/unload around the player.
• Procedural icy terrain: snow, packed ice, blue-ice veins, glacier stone, frozen dirt, and flat frozen lakes at sea level.
• Large ice castles placed deterministically: curtain walls with battlements, corner towers with conical spires, a tall central keep, glowing-crystal spire tips, and a gatehouse. Stamped chunk-independently so they're seamless across borders and identical on reload.
• First-person physics: gravity, AABB voxel collision, jumping, sprinting, and a creative fly mode.
• Block editing via a DDA voxel raycast with a targeted-block highlight (LMB break / RMB place).
• Hotbar of 8 ice block types (number keys / scroll), crosshair, debug HUD, click-to-play overlay.
• Cold atmosphere: sky-gradient dome, blue depth fog, translucent ice, sun + hemisphere lighting, falling snow particles.
• Procedural texture atlas (canvas, NearestFilter) — no binary image assets.

Controls

WASD move · Mouse look · Space jump · Shift sprint · F fly (then Space/C up·down) · LMB break · RMB place · 1–8/scroll select · Esc release mouse

Deployment

/.github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml now also copies ice-craft/ into the Pages build, so it deploys at /ice-craft/ alongside the existing site (root phone gift untouched).

Testing

Verified end-to-end in headless Chrome (puppeteer-core + swiftshader). Automated checks (all passing): no console/page errors, world renders (~126k triangles, 200+ chunks), player rests on ground under gravity, break removes a block and place adds one, and an ice castle is found and renders. All JS modules pass node --check.

Run locally:

python3 -m http.server 8099   # from repo root
# open http://localhost:8099/ice-craft/  (click to play)

Screenshots

Hero view (central keep + corner-tower spires with crystal tips, battlemented walls):
IceCraft hero castle

Castle front (gatehouse + courtyard):
IceCraft castle front

Aerial:
IceCraft castle aerial

First-person world (terrain, frozen lake, hotbar, snow, distant castles in fog):
IceCraft world

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