Sunny Dodger

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Create a browser-based 3D arcade survival game titled “Sunny Dodger.” Use Three.js (or an equivalent real-time 3D engine) with a slightly elevated third-person camera looking toward a small arena around the player. The world is a bright sunny field: a large flat green grass-colored floor approximately 40 by 40 units, with a subtle dark-green checker/grid overlay for spatial readability, blue daytime sky/background, soft shadows, warm directional sunlight, and gentle ambient/hemisphere fill lighting. Keep the arena playable area bounded to roughly ±11.5 units on the X and Z axes.

The player is a small blue glowing-looking spherical orb, about 0.65 units in radius, initially centered on the ground. It should cast a shadow. Move it horizontally with WASD or the arrow keys; normalize diagonal movement and use a normal movement speed of about 9. Allow jumping with Space: jump only on a rising edge of the key while grounded, with a strong upward impulse and gravity so the orb arcs and lands back on the floor. Allow a directional dash with either Shift key while a movement direction is held: make it a brief fast burst (about 0.13 seconds at roughly 21 units/second), with a cooldown of about 0.65 seconds. Clamp the player within the arena. When hit, apply a small horizontal knockback and briefly blink/hide the player to communicate roughly 0.8 seconds of invulnerability.

The main hazards are red-orange solid cubes, about 1.2 units on each side, that spawn at random X/Z positions inside the arena and high above the ground (roughly Y=10–16). Give each a random initial rotation and continuously spin it as it falls vertically. Their downward speed starts around 6–10 units/second and ramps up gradually over time. Spawn them about every 0.8 seconds initially, then progressively more often, down to a minimum interval around 0.22 seconds. Remove cubes after they fall below the arena. Use sphere-versus-axis-aligned-box collision: a falling cube contacting the player costs one life, unless the player is invulnerable. Start with 3 lives; after each hit grant the brief invulnerability window. End the game when lives reach zero.

Also spawn collectible golden-yellow faceted stars (low-poly icosahedron-like shapes with a warm emissive glow) at random positions in the arena, hovering around Y=1.35 and bobbing up and down. Spawn one about every 3.2 seconds initially, with the interval gradually reducing toward about 1.6 seconds. Rotate them continuously, award +25 score on player contact, play a collect sound, and remove them; otherwise despawn them after about 10 seconds. Stars should be visually distinct from the red falling blocks.

The survival score increases continuously at +1 point per second, and collecting a star adds 25 points. Difficulty ramps continuously with elapsed time: falling-block spawn intervals decrease and block fall speeds increase; star intervals also decrease modestly. Track score as an integer display while allowing time-based fractional accumulation internally. The camera should smoothly follow the player, staying elevated around Y=10.5 and behind/forward around Z=16, looking at a point near the player and ground. Use a perspective view around 60 degrees with responsive resizing.

Place a readable HUD over the 3D scene near the upper-left: rounded pill-style panels showing “Score: 0,” “Lives: 3,” and “Time: 0.0s,” updating continuously. Beneath them show the instruction line: “Move: WASD/Arrows • Jump: Space • Dash: Shift • Click/press any key to enable sound”. The visual UI should use translucent light panels, dark blue text/borders, rounded corners, and a clean system sans-serif font. When all lives are lost, pause gameplay and show a centered translucent “Game Over” panel with “Press R to restart,” final score, survived time, best score, and a “Restart (R)” button. Support restarting through R after game over or the button, resetting lives, score, time, player position, timers, and all spawned objects.

Implement simple synthesized browser audio using Tone.js or an equivalent: the first click or keypress initializes audio because of browser autoplay policy. Include subtle sounds for jumping, dashing, block spawning/impact-like clangs, star collection, player hits, restart, and game over. The finished game should feel like a quick, readable arcade dodging game with a sunny low-poly 3D presentation rather than a menu or static demo.