Highway 404

My game entry for JS13K Games 2020 on the theme "404" (Post-mortem on Medium).

How long will you survive the perils of Highway 404, Canada's evilest motorway? Featuring your favorite HTTP status codes:

• 103 Early Hints: dispenses in-game instructions
• 200 Road OK: cancels the adverse effects of 404
• 301 Road Moved & 302 Temporary Road Redirect: moves you to less dangerous lane
• 404 Road Not Found: breaks the road behind you
• 418 I am a Teapot: collects them for extra points
• 501 Road Not Implemented & 503 Road Unavailable: blocks the road ahead of you

Getting Started

1. Run npm install to install all the build dependencies.

2. Run npm start to build the game and serve it locally into a new browser tab. Any changes to the source code will live-reload the game in the browser tab.

Controls

• Desktop: steer with WASD, QZSD or arrow keys
• Mobile: steer by swiping anywhere on the screen (like it was a virtual D-pad)

Web Monetization

Coil subscribers exclusive:

• 429 Speed Limiting: slows down time to help you drive around obstacles
• new car paint & decals

Special Thanks & Credits

• Eoin McGrath for his original build script
• Peters and flo- for their pixel font from Glitch Hunter
• Ryan Malm for sharing his Twitter message code
• Maxime Euziere for his switch/case approach to handling game screens in update/render/input handlers
• Florent Cailhol for suggesting Terser in place of UglifyJS
• Frank Force and Keith Clark for their über smoll sound & music players, ZzFX and ZzFX Music respectively
• play tester extraordinaire Di Liu, Nael El Shawwa & Cory Borg for their candid feedback
• Matt Deslaurier for canvas-sketch-util's lerp functions