Cloud Surfer

# Cloud Surfer Third-person score-attack surfing across an endless sea of toon clouds that **react to your touch** — the deck carves open under the board, blooms with dye along your wake, and heals behind you. ## Play - **A/D** steer — hard carves build speed and refill **FLOW** - **hold SPACE** to crouch-charge, release to jump (height scales with charge + speed) - **Q/E** spin, **W/S** flip in the air — land aligned for a clean trick (+1 multiplier), misaligned = bail - Thread **vapor rings** (+flow, +points), ride **thermals** for big air, dodge **storm cells** (lightning telegraphs 1s before the strike, contact drains 25% flow), lean into **wind shear bands** - Flow drains constantly (~4%/s). When it empties, the board sinks below the deck and the run ends. - Score = distance + trick points × multiplier. Milestones at 500/1000/2500m unlock the **Okami-Ink** and **Vaporwave-Dusk** palettes and the **Nightglass** board. ## How it's built Entirely world content: one `CloudSurfer` component owns the state machine, UI, input, camera, scoring, audio, and persistence. The cloud sea is a single grid mesh whose WGSL surface shader scrolls a billow-noise field past the board (uniforms change only when speed changes), with 24 timestamped touch points carving a wake that heals in-shader over 3 seconds. The look is a cel blend of posterized 3-step ramps, halftone shadow dots, depth-edge ink lines, radial speed lines, and a hue-shifting psychedelic sky that heats up with the multiplier. The four synth music layers (pad/arp/lead/drums) were synthesized sample-by-sample in Luau and gate in as the multiplier climbs.