Cloud Rush

A cinematic, dependency-free 3D arcade flight game for the browser.

Cloud Rush renders its world entirely on a single HTML canvas with a custom perspective projection. Fly through ring corridors, break hostile formations, survive storm cells, and push your interceptor as far as it can go.

Play

Open the live version

Highlights

• Custom 3D canvas renderer with no game engine
• Fast arcade handling, boost, energy weapons, and damage feedback
• Rings, storm cells, enemy fighters, assault drones, and hostile fire
• Progressive threat system with denser and faster encounters
• Manual controls, touch controls, and a fully autonomous demo mode
• Persistent score, distance, and ring records through local storage
• Responsive cinematic HUD for desktop and mobile
• Original AI-generated enemy, pickup, hazard, and environment sprites with procedural fallbacks
• A fully procedural player aircraft that responds in 3D to roll, pitch, and yaw

Run locally

No build step is required.

npm run serve

Then open http://127.0.0.1:4173.

You can also use any static file server from the repository root.

Controls

Input	Action
WASD or arrow keys	Maneuver
Shift	Afterburner
F	Fire
Space	Pause or resume
P	Toggle autopilot
R	Generate a new route

If no manual input is detected for a few seconds, autopilot takes over and keeps the flight alive.

Gameplay validation

Run a deterministic full autopilot session from the command line:

npm run play-demo

The script simulates a complete flight and prints its score, distance, encounters, records, and final aircraft status.

Architecture

• src/game-core.js contains deterministic simulation, entities, collisions, difficulty, weapons, and autopilot.
• src/renderer.js draws the sky, terrain, effects, entities, aircraft, and feedback layers.
• src/main.js connects input, UI state, persistence, and the browser animation loop.
• assets/sprites/ contains the optimized enemy, pickup, hazard, and cloud sprites.
• docs/ contains repository media and screenshots.