Solar Shred

What it does

Solar Shred is a compact tactical skate RPG where you ride a skateboard-space-shuttle through an invented solar system. Win trick battles, earn Stardust, install a heat shield, and reach a treasure in the Sun Core.

Problem

Short web games often make players choose between expressive movement and tactical decision-making. Solar Shred makes skate tricks meaningful: every choice changes the outcome of a turn-based contest and pushes the player closer to the Sun.

How it works

Players begin at Neptune Drift, choose Kickflip, Grind, or Boost in tactical battles, then claim Stardust and upgrade their heat shield to unlock Mercury Rail and the Sun Core. The game ends with a treasure run in the Sun's core.

Built with

Solar Shred is a Vite + React single-page app with a reducer-backed state machine for route progression, battle turns, rewards, upgrades, defeat, and the ending. Original generated battle art is bundled locally as scene backdrops.

Testing

Install Node.js 20+ and pnpm, then run pnpm install and pnpm dev. Choose Start run, complete Neptune Drift, install the heat shield, and proceed through Mercury Rail to the Sun Core.

AI and Codex

AI image generation created the Neptune and Sun-core battle art. Codex helped scope the game, create requirements and a technical plan, implement the reducer-based battle loop, debug progression, verify a full route, and build the production bundle.

Built With

• css
• html5
• javascript
• pnpm
• react
• vite