NONEWHERE

A PS1-era dread driving / exploration game. You come to after a bus crash in the snow, remembering nothing. There is a car by the road. There is fog. You drive.

No map. No minimap. No HUD. No goal — only the road, the white nothing, and the people still out here, who look wrong. So do you.

Vibe

• Authentic late-90s look: low internal render resolution upscaled with nearest-neighbour, vertex jitter (wobbling polygons), ordered dithering, a cold dread vignette, and heavy exponential fog that doubles as the edge of the world.
• Rounded — not blocky — low-poly humanoids with faces that are slightly, deliberately wrong, and heads that turn to follow you.
• Everything is generated at runtime in code: canvas textures, geometry, and procedural Web Audio (a low drone, snow-wind, the engine, footstep crunch, and rare stings that swell out of the fog). No binary assets ship.

The map

A single winding mountain road through deep snow. You can pull off the road a little, but the mountains and the fog wall you in — it's arranged sections, not an open world. Points of interest are spread out along the route:

• the crashed bus you woke beside,
• an old gas station (out of fuel for years — though your car never ran on fuel anyway) with one strange attendant,
• an abandoned house (two floors, four rooms) full of things to examine: blank magazines, a scratched-out poster, a bathtub full of something black,
• a figure on a frozen lake, a roadside shrine, a stalled truck, and the end of the road.

Controls

WASD / arrows	walk · drive
Mouse	look around
E	interact / enter & exit the car / advance text
Shift	run (on foot)
M	mute / unmute

Camera is third-person and semi-locked: it follows you on foot and eases into a chase position behind the car.

Run it

pnpm install
pnpm dev        # http://localhost:5173
pnpm build      # type-check + production build to dist/
pnpm preview    # serve the built dist/

Dev/debug: append ?dev to the URL to skip the intro; window.__game then exposes teleport/peek helpers used by the playtest scripts.

Web (now) & Steam (later)

The game is a pure static SPA — vite.config.ts sets base: './' so the exact same dist/ works both served over HTTP (Cloudflare Pages) and loaded from a local file origin inside a Tauri shell. To ship on Steam later: wrap dist/ with Tauri (tauri init, point frontendDist at ../dist), build the native binary, and upload it via SteamPipe. No game code has to change — there are no servers, no remote calls, and no runtime asset downloads.

Deploy

Auto-deploys to Cloudflare Pages on push to main via the Forgejo Actions workflow in .forgejo/workflows/deploy.yml (pnpm run deploy → wrangler pages deploy dist). Requires repo Actions secrets CF_API_TOKEN and CF_ACCOUNT_ID.