metacrumb
Philipp Fuchs
Almost 40. Plenty done. Not tired yet.
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Developer, game designer, world builder, musician. Maybe just a dreamer.
I’m Philipp and I live in Berlin. I build game worlds that run in the browser with a double-click – no server, no downloads. Islands, cities, hospitals and whole ecosystems are generated the moment you start them.
I also build tools for non-profits that nobody else builds, and I make music as metacrumb.
How I got here
- 2006Animal care
- 2010Administration
- 2019Food rescue with foodsharing
- 2025Software for SprachCafé Polnisch e.V.
metacrumb starts over.
The name comes from metaphysics: talk about the big things with your mouth full and you drop crumbs. That became the song “In Perspective of a Crumb” – and that became metacrumb.
It started with compositions in the spirit of Tchaikovsky, later a rapper from London and melodic voices joined in. Now everything begins again.
Three worlds
Each one runs in the browser with a double-click, and each one is generated when it starts.
Survival horror RPG
Strandgut 3D
A man with no memory, an island with no way out – and all of human history as the only way forward.
Phil wakes up on a strange beach. The island wraps around a dark mountain like a ring, and beyond every pass a new age begins: stone, bronze, iron, steam, electricity. I wrote the soundtrack as metacrumb in Fuchs-Trecker.
- regions across five eras
- 40
- weapons
- 40
- soundtrack pieces
- 43
Turn-based empire builder
Ivi, emi, factus sum
From antiquity to today – on a map that is generated anew every time.
Civilizations, leaders, world wonders and natural wonders on a low-poly 3D tile map. Every civilization has its own music, and every building is a blueprint generated in code.
- civilizations
- 790
- minutes of music for each civilization
- 2
- building blueprints
- 126
Retro top-down action
Sinner City
An alien. A skater. Broke. And the mayor wants to tear down his halfpipe.
A dark top-down adventure in the spirit of the late nineties. Street grid, districts, interiors, missions and music are generated from a random seed for every new city – no night is like the last.
- districts plus countryside
- 4
- gangs with respect values
- 4
- file, no server
- 1
Fuchs-Trecker
My music workstation in the browser: tracker, synthesizer, sampler and video studio in one. Almost every soundtrack here was made with it. The diary shows how it grew.
1.0
Sep 24
Tracker, synth workstation and DAW demo tool – arranger, recording and song parts on day one.
2.0
Oct 4
Analog synth, amp simulation, multisamples, a vocoder and a speech computer that can sing.
2.1
Oct 11
Generative triggers, polymeter, Euclidean rhythms and a modulation matrix.
3.0
Oct 14
Command palette, granular and Karplus sounds, riff mutator, Markov generator.
3.3
Oct 14
Editing like a DAW: ripple, markers, piano roll with lasso, automation curves.
4.0
Oct 14
New engine: true-peak limiter, EBU R128 loudness, reverb and spectrum.
4.1
Oct 18
The classics: TB-303, SH-101, Juno-106, TR-808 and TR-909, plus an arpeggiator.
4.2
Oct 18
Visuals: export VHS-style music videos straight from the song – like “Fuchs im Haus”.
5.0
Oct 19
Production-ready for hip-hop, R&B, EDM, acid house and trance: sidechain, EQ, groove templates.
5.6.1
Oct 20
As a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux – 26 days after version 1.0.
For communities
For SprachCafé Polnisch e.V. in Berlin-Pankow I build the complete digital toolkit – from the rota to the till. I build tools like these for other non-profits and initiatives too.
- Website relaunch with more than 570 pages in German and Polish
- Team and rota app with cash book
- Android kiosk with an on-device barcode scanner
- Member app with a digital card in Google Wallet
- Bilingual self-service library
- Editorial portal for the team