TideBreaker

Tidebreaker is an arcade jet-ski racer where the water moves. Every wave is simulated under your hull and drawn on screen from the same equations, so what you see is what you ride: surf down a face for speed, launch off a crest for air, and feel the swell build every lap until the last lap is a storm.

**Surge.** You earn it by racing well: riding down waves, catching air, landing tricks and threading the gates in a combo. Spend a charge for a boost. Three charges max, so use them.

**Tricks.** Shift in the air. Hold a direction for a barrel roll, down for a backflip, nothing for the Superman. Tricks finish on their own; your job is to start them with enough air. Start too late and you're swimming.

**Four courses.** Coral Bay at noon over turquoise shallows. Sunset Strait, flat out into the sun. Storm Cape, where the rain comes in on lap two and the lighthouse beam sweeps the swell. Glass Lagoon at dawn, a slalom through the rocks in the mist.

**Three cups, four crafts, six liveries.** The Tide Cup, the Pro Cup and the mirrored Storm Cup. Everything is earned with REP, and the next unlock is always on screen.

**Time trial** against your own best-lap ghost, with bronze, silver and gold targets. **Today's Tide** is a new seeded race every day with a streak.

**Five rivals** with names, lines and tempers, rubber-banded so the pack stays close.

Built with Three.js, custom GLSL shaders and spatial Web Audio. Every model, texture and sound is generated in code; the whole game is 186 KB.

### Controls

- Keyboard: W/↑ throttle, A/D steer, S/↓ brake (lean back to turn tighter), Space Surge, Shift trick, Esc pause, M mute.

- Controller: RT or A throttle, LT or X brake, left stick steer, B Surge, RB or Y trick.

- Touch: drag the left half to steer, automatic throttle, SURGE / TRICK / BRAKE buttons.