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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