Pattern Breaker

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Create a playable browser game titled “Pattern Breaker,” a neon sci-fi top-down arena shooter built with Three.js. Use a dark navy/black space setting with a slightly angled elevated perspective camera looking down at a circular arena; keep the player and arena centered while smoothly following small player movement. The arena is a large dark blue circular platform with a subtle outer cylindrical rim, a thin cyan circular boundary ring, a glowing blue gridded/starfield floor, and a luminous cyan torus/core at the center with a softly pulsing circular glow beneath it. The overall visual style is clean arcade sci-fi: deep blue background, cyan player/core/UI elements, warm coral enemies and projectiles, gold pickup/UI accents, translucent rounded HUD panels, and restrained glow/lighting. Use pixel-art-style ship sprites for the player and enemies where available, with the player appearing as a small pale-cyan/white ship and enemies as coral/pink angular ships; preserve nearest-neighbor/pixelated texture filtering. If sprite assets are unavailable, approximate them with simple glowing low-poly shapes while retaining these colors and silhouettes.

Core gameplay: the player controls a small ship inside the circular arena and survives an endless sequence of enemy waves by destroying enemies and avoiding their bullet patterns. Start at wave 1 with score 0 and HP 5/5. The player moves freely in the X/Z plane, constrained inside the arena (about radius 12), at roughly 8.8 units/second. Aim toward the mouse cursor projected onto the arena floor and fire continuously with held left mouse or Space; shots are fast cyan/blue laser sprites traveling in the aimed direction, firing about every 0.12 seconds and dealing 1 damage. The ship rotates to face its aim direction. On desktop, support WASD and arrow keys for movement, mouse movement for aiming, held click or Space for firing, and Shift for a dash. Dash uses the current movement direction, or aim direction if stationary, briefly moves very quickly for about 0.16 seconds, grants brief invulnerability, and has a cooldown of about 3.4 seconds. Display the dash state as “Ready” or a remaining seconds value. On touch devices, provide a translucent virtual movement joystick at bottom-left, a circular “Fire” aim/fire zone at bottom-right, and a gold/orange Dash button above it; continuously fire while the fire zone is held.

At the beginning of each wave, show a temporary centered translucent message such as “Wave 1 — break the ring” or “Wave 1 incoming.” Normal waves spawn 4 + wave number enemies, capped at 12, evenly distributed around an outer ring at about radius 11.8. Enemies orbit the arena center in alternating clockwise/counterclockwise directions, rotate/spin, and periodically fire at the player. Give ordinary enemies starting health of 3 + floor(wave/2), increase their orbital speed and projectile speed as waves progress, and use three visible attack-pattern types: (1) a five-shot spread aimed at the player, (2) a radial spoke burst of 8 to 14 shots around the enemy, and (3) a quick five-shot burst with slight angular offsets aimed toward the player. Enemy projectiles should be warm coral/red glowing laser sprites or small bright shots, remain on the arena plane, and disappear after traveling for a limited lifetime. Contact with an enemy or enemy bullet removes 1 HP, gives about 1 second of invulnerability, and can cause a subtle camera shake; show a short “Hit — keep moving” message.

Every fourth wave is a boss wave. Spawn one larger coral boss ship on a slightly inner orbit with a warm halo ring and high health (16 + wave*2), plus 2 to 4 escort enemies. The boss spins more prominently and fires a 16-spoke radial bullet ring plus a five-shot aimed spread; show “Boss wave N.” Destroying an ordinary enemy awards 25 score; destroying a boss awards 250. Enemies have clearly more substantial size/halo treatment for the boss. When all enemies in a wave are destroyed, immediately advance to the next wave, briefly protect the player from immediate spawning, and show the next-wave message. Also advance waves on a timer (initially about 24 seconds, later roughly 25 minus 0.8 seconds per wave, with a minimum around 15 seconds), so the run continues even if the player has not cleared everything.

Destroyed enemies have about a 26% chance to drop a floating gold torus-knot-like integrity pickup at their position. Pickups bob and rotate, expire after about 10 seconds, and when collected restore 1 HP up to max and award 10 score; show “Integrity patch +1 HP.” In addition to the starting stats, grant a deterministic upgrade after each even-numbered wave and after boss destruction, cycling through: “Thrusters +” (movement speed increase), “Rapid fire +” (shorter fire cooldown), “Hull +” (increase max HP by 1 and heal 2), “Payload +” (increase bullet damage and slightly enlarge bullets), and “Dash +” (reduce dash cooldown). Show the upgrade as a brief message, such as “Wave 2 — Thrusters +” or “Boss salvage — Rapid fire +.”

HUD: overlay the game without blocking play using dark translucent, lightly bordered rounded panels. At the top, show four stats labeled Wave, Score, HP, and Dash, with large cyan values; initial values are Wave 1, Score 0, HP 5/5, and Dash Ready. Put a centered temporary notification panel below the top HUD. On desktop, put a small bottom-left help panel reading approximately “WASD / arrows move — aim with mouse — hold click or Space to fire — Shift to dash.” Hide that help on touch devices in favor of the visible mobile controls. When HP reaches zero, stop gameplay and show a centered dark panel titled “System Breach,” with final score, reached wave, and survival time, plus a bright gradient “Restart run” button. Pressing R or the button resets the entire run to wave 1, score 0, HP 5/5, and default upgrades. Add subtle synthetic arcade sound effects for shooting, hits, pickups, dashing, and boss-wave announcements if audio is available, but do not let audio be required for play.