Street Dash

# Street Dash

A **vertical-scrolling arcade racer** for fast, replayable runs. Steer left, steer right, chain coins, dodge traffic, survive the police chase.

🎮 **Play it in your browser** — no install needed. Works on desktop and mobile.

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How to play

| Action | Keyboard | Touch |

|--------|----------|-------|

| Steer left  | A or ← | tap/hold left half |

| Steer right | D or → | tap/hold right half |

| Pause | P or Esc | tap ⏸ button |

| Start / restart | Space or Enter | tap |

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Features

- **3 difficulty modes** — Easy, Normal, Hard — each with its own Top-10 leaderboard

- **10 unlockable achievements**

- **Combo system** — chain coins for up to ×3 score multiplier

- **3 power-ups** — Shield, ×2 Score, and Coin Magnet

- **Lane-changing traffic** — cars, trucks, and fast motorcycles

- **Boss police chase** from level 5+

- **Oil slicks** — slip if you're not careful

- **Day → sunset → dusk → night** atmosphere as you climb levels

- **Rain weather** from level 8

- **Pure offline play** — no ads, no tracking, no account needed

- **Procedural music + sound** — original Web Audio engine

- **Adjustable volume** and mute toggle in settings

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## Tips

- The **Magnet** power-up makes combos easy — grab it whenever you see it

- Combos break on *any* crash, including the police boss

- **Easy mode** has 4 lives — perfect for learning the lane patterns

- The road curves perceptibly as the day cycle changes; use it as a level cue

- Score 10,000 in one run to unlock the **10K Club** achievement

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## Tech notes

- Single self-contained HTML file (~50 KB after minify)

- Canvas 2D + Web Audio API — zero external dependencies at runtime

- Fonts load from Google Fonts on first run, then cached by your browser

- All progress (leaderboards, achievements, settings) saved to `localStorage`

- Open-source under [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

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## Credits

- Game design, code, art, sound: original work

- Fonts: **Orbitron** by Matt McInerney and **Rajdhani** by Indian Type Foundry — both SIL Open Font License

- Built with HTML5 Canvas + Web Audio API

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## Privacy

**Zero data collection.** No analytics, no ads, no accounts. Everything stays on your device. [Full privacy policy](https://example.com/privacy) — `← replace with your hosted URL`

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## Known limitations

- Portrait-only — letterboxes on landscape monitors. A landscape mode is on the roadmap.

- Touch on iOS Safari requires one initial tap to enable audio (browser autoplay policy).

- Some custom-font fallback differences across emoji renderers (Apple/Microsoft/Google emoji look slightly different — same gameplay).

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If you enjoy it, **rate the game** ⭐ and **leave a comment** below. Bug reports and feedback are appreciated — they make the next update better.