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NEON DRIFT

6 kB of synthwave violence.

NEON DRIFT
Year
2026
Role
Game design · Engineering
Stack
Vite · Canvas 2D · WebAudio
Type
Game · Canvas · Playable

The project

A pseudo-3D lane racer that ships at ~6 kB gzipped with zero assets: five palette-shifted levels, shield/magnet/slow power-ups, near-miss combos, particles, synthesized sound effects, and a local top-10 leaderboard with arcade initials.

What we built

  • 01Pseudo-3D lane projection engine on Canvas 2D
  • 02WebAudio-synthesized SFX — the entire game has no asset files
  • 03Power-ups, near-miss combo scoring, per-level palettes, particle system
  • 04Top-10 leaderboard with 3-letter initials entry
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