AI HORIZON
🚀 A fast, arcade-style space shooter — collect stars, blast asteroids, and beat the clock.
✨ An end-of-run mission debrief by a virtual space force officer helps you refine your strategy.
How to play
Your goal is to score as many points as possible in 90 seconds without having to eject due to an imminent asteroid collision. Move your ship to collect stars and shoot asteroids. Some asteroids are hardened and take many hits.
Controls
- Move: Arrow keys or WASD — or click/touch the canvas to have the ship follow the cursor.
- Fire: Spacebar or click/touch and hold to continuously fire.
- Pause / Resume: Esc.
Scoring
- Regular stars: +25
- Bonus stars: +50
- Regular asteroids: +10
- Hardened asteroids (10 hits): +100
- 8 bonus asteroids (10 hits): +250
- Every 1000 points: +250
- Bullet upgrade (after 2500 points): hardened and bonus asteroids take 50% fewer hits
- Finale (last 15 seconds): all points double
- End-of-run shots fired accuracy bonus (0-100%)
Leaderboard
- The top 99 players may enter their 3-letter initials on the leaderboard.
- If you do not wish to be on the leaderboard, submit without initials.
- If you enter already existing initials, only the highest score will be persisted.
About
- 100% AI-generated using VS Code & GitHub Copilot agent mode (Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and GPT-5 Codex). AI-assisted by Amazon Q.
- An AWS serverless architecture comprised of CloudFront & S3 (frontend) and Cognito, API Gateway, Lambda, Bedrock & DynamoDB (backend) as well as IAM & CloudWatch (both). AI model: Claude Haiku 4.5.
- A Progressive Web App (PWA) that works offline and can be installed on your device.
👨🚀 Godspeed — Bernd Straehle