Yuta Nakayama1, Seung-Tak Noh2, Haoran Xie3, Kazunori Miyata3, and Tsukasa Fukusato1
1 Waseda University
2 Tokyo City University
3 JAIST
Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2026), Late-Breaking Short Paper
This paper proposes a sketch-based interface to interactively design 3D voxel game stages. Given the mouse-drag operations, our system automatically computes the corresponding 3D locations from the visible voxel surface and the base grid to place or delete blocks one-by-one. Our method integrates seamlessly into existing modeling tools. We demonstrate the robustness of our system through a variety of modeling results. In addition, we conducted a user study and validated that our system is effective for realizing game stage designs as envisioned by users.
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number  JP24K20910 and JST, BOOST, Grant Number JPMJBY24D6.
Yuta Nakayama, Seung-Tak Noh, Haoran Xie, Kazunori Miyata, and Tsukasa Fukusato. "Sketch-based Deposition Modeling of Voxel Game Stages." In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), pp.77:1--77:4, Copenhagen, 2026.08.10-13.
Tsukasa Fukusato, Seung-Tak Noh, Takeo Igarashi, and Daichi Ito. "Interactive Meshing of User-Defined Point Sets." Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT), Vol.9, No.3, pp.39--58, 2020.10. [link]
Hirotaka Suetake, Tsukasa Fukusato, Christian Arzate Cruz, Andy Nealen, Takeo Igarashi. "Interactive Design Exploration of Game Stages Using Adjustable Synthetic Testers" In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), pp.25:1--25:4, Malta, 2020.09.15-18. [doi]