Brick Wars: Spirit Quest — graphics-first brick-toy parody game (browser, CDN-served)

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What this is

A self-contained browser game in brick-wars/: a third-person 3D collectathon set on a desert diorama built entirely from procedurally generated plastic construction bricks. Find all 7 glowing spirits, smash crates for studs, and hold-to-build a rattling brick pile into a staircase up the mesa.

Unofficial fan parody for personal, non-commercial use. Not affiliated with the LEGO Group or Lucasfilm. Every asset is original and generated procedurally in code — no third-party assets, logos, or trademarks.

Play it (no deploy needed)

• Latest on branch: https://raw.githack.com/ilikevibecoding/My-projects/cursor/bc-a9d7f41c-76dd-4702-9e55-dfef9095a961-8f96/brick-wars/index.html
• Pinned to this commit: https://rawcdn.githack.com/ilikevibecoding/My-projects/29f6cd670cc5058376fd416d6ac04e845347fd20/brick-wars/index.html

githack shows a one-click "External Content Notice" first — click Open the page. The existing GitHub Pages workflow (ehpurple.com) is untouched; merging this does not deploy the game there.

Graphics (the focus)

• True construction-toy ratios (8 mm module: plates 0.4, bricks 1.2, studs Ø0.6×0.21), flat-chamfered molded edges, logo-free stud tops
• Glossy "ABS plastic" materials with PMREM environment speculars and per-brick molded-batch color jitter
• Terraced dunes of stacked 1×1 plates over a studded baseplate; huts laid brick-by-brick in running bond with slope-brick roofs; vaporator towers, brick cacti, rock builds, flat-top mesa
• ACES tone mapping, cadenced PCF shadows (sun azimuth tuned so shadows face the camera), selective half-res bloom only on the sword blade and spirits
• Properly proportioned minifig rig: studded cylinder head with canvas-painted face, tapered torso, claw hands, rigid toy-joint walk/idle/swing animation; ghost spirits share the rig with an emissive translucent material
• Whole static world renders in a handful of InstancedMesh draw calls

Performance

• ~390k triangles/frame (was 2.7M at first build — a 7× cut) via a custom 44-tri flat-chamfer box (replaces ~108-tri rounded boxes), plain 12-tri boxes for buried terrain layers, 8-segment studs with no buried caps
• Single directional light + hemisphere; no clearcoat on the large instanced fields
• Shadow map 1536² PCF refreshed on a frame cadence; bloom blur targets at half resolution
• Per-tier absolute pixel budgets (high 2.1MP / med 1.45MP / low 0.95MP / potato 0.55MP) so hi-DPI/4K screens never rasterize at native resolution
• Adaptive quality: starts at med, auto-promotes to high on fast machines, steps down through low to potato (no shadows + blob shadow, no post, ~half-SD render scale) when frames run slow
• Software-rendering detection: if the browser has no GPU acceleration (SwiftShader/llvmpipe), the game starts at potato and shows a banner telling the player to enable hardware acceleration
• ?quality=high|med|low|potato locks a tier, ?nobloom=1 skips post entirely; __bw.info() in the console reports GPU, tier, and frame time for diagnostics

Gameplay vista
Diorama with shadows
Hero close-up
Crate smash debris
Win screen

Mechanics

• Pointer-lock third-person controls (WASD / Space / Shift), terrace step-up, prop collisions, camera occlusion pull-in
• Energy sword swings (click/F) burst crates into tumbling bricks; golden studs bounce out and magnet to you with an escalating pickup tick
• 7 spirits to collect by walking into them — each becomes a wisp following you; Subnautica clone graphics #7 sits atop the mesa behind the hold-E build set piece
• Win screen with studs/smashed/time stats; fully synthesized WebAudio (sword hum, chimes, snaps, fanfare)

Testing

• Headless-Chrome smoke test (software WebGL): walks, smashes, collects studs + spirit by proximity, completes the build, reaches win state — zero console errors; also validates the software-GL → potato path end-to-end
• Verified the actual rawcdn.githack URL boots and renders the game end-to-end after each perf pass

Vendored Three.js v0.170 under brick-wars/vendor/ (works offline / from any static host; no build step).

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