High Bounce

Cinevva's analyzer read this game's design doc and its source, then wrote the brief below. "Make your own" hands it to the game creator as your opening message, so you start from a real spec rather than a one-line idea.

Recreate a playable game titled “High Bounce” as a clean neon-on-dark arcade skill game. Use a Three.js-style 3D scene with an orthographic camera positioned straight-on so the playfield is effectively 2D, with subtle 3D box depth, standard lighting, fog, and a very dark navy/black background. The arena spans roughly x=-10 to 10 and y=-6.5 to 6.5, enclosed by dark blue-gray thick floor, ceiling, left wall, and right wall pieces; place a dark back plate behind it. Keep the camera framing stable across browser aspect ratios, showing the full arena.

The player controls a bright cyan/blue rectangular paddle near the bottom at y approximately -5.65. It is about 4.4 world units wide and 0.7 high, with a slightly dimensional box appearance and emissive neon material. Move it horizontally with A/D or the left/right arrow keys, using acceleration, friction and a maximum speed, and constrain it inside the arena. The goal is to keep the ball in play. A glowing white sphere with blue emissive shading starts near the lower center, around y=-4.4, with an initial upward velocity and a randomized left or right horizontal direction. Apply gravity, slight horizontal friction, and bouncy restitution. The ball reflects from the side walls and ceiling and collides with the moving paddle; paddle hits should add horizontal “english” based on where the ball lands and the paddle’s motion. If the ball falls below the bottom, display “Dropped — respawn,” reset money to $0 while preserving the best score, and respawn the ball near the bottom with upward velocity. Do not create lives or a game-over screen.

Fill the upper/middle arena with six rows of seven permanent rectangular blocks (42 total), each block about 2.5 wide, 0.7 high, with narrow horizontal and vertical gaps. Rows run from approximately y=-0.4 through y=5.7. Blocks do not break or disappear: the game is an ongoing score chase. Color them by height, interpolating from cool cyan/blue on the lowest row to warm pink/red on the highest row. Give them mild metallic/emissive neon lighting and a brief scale “pop” animation when struck. The ball should collide with every block and bounce away. Award money on block hits, with each block’s value based nonlinearly on its height: approximately $5 for the lowest tier and up to 
00 for the highest tier. Label hits as Tier 1 through Tier 6, where the top row pays the most. Include a short per-block hit cooldown (about 140 ms) so repeated grazing does not award money every frame.

Add a fixed HUD in the top-left over the canvas using translucent dark rounded pills with subtle blue borders and blur/shadow. Show three status pills: “Money $0” (updated during the run), “Last hit —” (updated to entries such as “Tier 1 +$5,” “Nudge!,” or “Dropped — respawn”), and “Best $0” (the highest money total reached, retained after drops and reset only as appropriate for a new page/session). Below them show controls: “Move: A/D or ←/→”, “Nudge: Space”, and “Reset: R”. Use a dark radial-gradient page background and light gray-white UI text.

Implement Space as a nudge action with a cooldown of about 0.35 seconds: while held or pressed when available, add a small upward impulse to the ball, slightly randomize horizontal velocity, update the last-hit text to “Nudge!”, and play a short synth blip. R resets the run: set money to zero, restore the ball near the bottom with randomized horizontal launch velocity and upward velocity, center the paddle, and clear block hit cooldowns. Enable audio after the first click or key press, using simple short synth sounds for wall/ceiling hits, paddle hits, block hits (higher pitch for higher tiers), nudges, and a lower lost-ball sound. Keep the presentation minimal: no menus, powerups, particles, breaking blocks, enemies, timer, or additional gameplay systems.