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Birdsong and sunflowers
Blockerzz worlds now have spatial birdsong that changes as you move through forests, and sunflowers that track the sun across the sky. Here's how we built them — and why mirroring the real world matters for learning.

3D grass and leaves in the browser: Blockerzz forests come alive
We just crossed a subtle threshold: Blockerzz worlds now feel alive. Here’s how we shipped true 3D grass and wind‑animated leaf canopies in a browser tab—beautiful up close, fast at distance, and stable enough for real classrooms.

Building the world's most advanced 3D voxel engine for the browser
A plain-English deep dive into two major engine releases—shape-aware movement (stairs/doors) and a new lighting stack (AO + real-time shadows + cloud shadows)—and why building this browser-native platform is far harder than it looks.