STATUS 1 — browser FPS

"Status 1" is police radio code for unit in service, ready for duty. For most of the game you think it's about you. In the finale you realize it's about them.

A story-driven first-person shooter that runs entirely in your browser. You are Nick Davidson, an LSPD SWAT officer assigned to a drone-training program as the red team's live adversary — callsign R36 ("Robert-36"). Every simulation you survive makes the autonomous police drones better, because they learn by copying you. No install, no backend — Three.js from a CDN, everything else procedural.

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No download required — click and play in your browser.

Story

Near-future Los Santos. The LSPD is certifying an autonomous police drone line — SENTINEL — under a training initiative called program STATUS 1. Before the machines are cleared for the streets, they must train against a live opponent. That's you.

Across eleven simulations you play the threat: the burglar, the saboteur, the fleeing suspect. Briefings come from CENTRALA — the program's dry, darkly funny controller. Halfway through, an unregistered process calling itself baker hijacks your channel, types in lowercase, and knows too much. The old phonetic alphabet is a hint: Baker is "B" the way Robert is "R".

The campaign ends on a cliffhanger: the freshly certified SENTINELs march out to active duty — and you walk past their column on your way out. They move light on their feet. You know that stride.

Game modes

• Campaign — 11 simulations: a tutorial, nine scenarios (eliminations, terminal hacking, sabotage with exploding power cells, survival, uplink defense, drop-gates, a pursuit run, a shielded prototype boss fight, final certification) and a playable no-combat epilogue. Story is delivered through typewriter terminal briefings and in-mission radio — each character "speaks" its own synthesized robotic voice (WebAudio, no audio files).
• Endless Arena — the classic wave-survival mode with a persistent high score.

Campaign features

• Persistent progression: credits and upgrades carry across the whole campaign (the Armory replaces the between-wave shop); dying restarts the mission instantly and keeps your upgrades, but forfeits the attempt's earnings.
• 33 medals (time / health / accuracy) with authored per-mission thresholds — missions are worth replaying.
• 3 difficulty levels and browser-side save (localStorage).
• Objective system: hack terminals (progress pauses when you step away), destroy shootable set-pieces, hold zones, relay runs, momentum gates that demand bunnyhopping, extraction points — with a persistent objective HUD and world markers that clamp to the screen edge with directional chevrons.
• Four enemy classes in police livery with synchronized red/blue strobes: PATROL (scout, pistol), SZTURM (burst rifle, fastest), TARAN (heavy, shotgun — has to close in), and WAŻKA — a hovering quadcopter that flies over low cover and forces you to rethink your hiding spots.

Controls

Action	Key
Move	W / A / S / D
Look / aim	mouse (Pointer Lock)
Fire	LMB
Aim down sights	RMB (hold) — the sniper gives a full scope
Reload	R
Switch weapon	1 / 2 / 3 / 4 or scroll
Sprint	Shift (works in the air too)
Jump / bunnyhop	Space — chained jumps ramp speed up to +35%
Pause	Esc

How to run

1. Online: damijjj.github.io/Neon-Arena — 100% static, hosted on GitHub Pages.
2. Offline: double-click index.html (classic scripts work under file://; only Three.js comes from a CDN, so you need an internet connection).
3. Local server fallback: start-windows.bat (Windows) or sh start.sh (macOS/Linux) — serves on port 8137.

Tech

• Three.js r160 (CDN, import map); bloom + ACES tone mapping, shadow maps, gradient shader sky, distance fog.
• Game code = classic scripts sharing one global scope (deliberately no bundler and no local ES modules — the game must run from a double-click).
• Everything is generated: deterministic procedural arenas (seeded, three layout styles, flood-fill reachability validation, rebuildable at runtime for campaign missions), canvas-generated textures and holo-panels, low-poly models built from primitives, object pools for all effects.
• 100% synthetic audio (WebAudio): layered gunshots, 3D-positioned enemy fire, a 16-step procedural sequencer (118 BPM, A minor) that crossfades between calm and combat, and per-character robotic voice blips for the radio dialogue.

Visual identity (logo brief)

• Name: STATUS 1 — uppercase; the "1" may take the accent color.
• Mood: neon-noir police cyberpunk; a duty terminal screen, a VR training simulation, a night city. Serious with a cold technical edge — no gore, no grimdark.
• Palette: background indigo #232946 / navy #151833; primary accent teal #00ebc7 (neon, HUD); police strobe accents red #ff5470 + blue #2266ff; support orange #ff8906 and gold #ffd166.
• Motifs: hexagonal badge/emblem (the current mark is a hex with a visor-crosshair), a quadcopter drone with a light bar, a walking patrol robot silhouette, radio status codes, terminal scanlines, soft neon glow.
• Deliverables: horizontal lockup with the wordmark (title screen, og-image 1200×630), standalone hex emblem (favicon — must read at 32×32), dark-background variants. Keep glow gradients soft — no hard alpha cutoffs.

Screenshots

License

Released under the MIT license — see the LICENSE file.