Justin NotarfrancescoNew York City
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Last Stop

Snake, but you're driving the NYC subway: swipe a 16-bit pixel-art train around a route map, couple on cars as you pick up passengers, and share your crash as a Wordle-style emoji card.

2026Live Site →Source
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Overview

A daily arcade game built for the group chat. Everyone gets the same Daily Commute (a shared, date-seeded map with identical Track Work obstacles and passenger spawns), and when you inevitably crash, you get a service-alert card (“Service Suspended — this train made 28 stops”) and a five-line emoji result made for iMessage.

What I built

  • A deterministic daily puzzle: one mulberry32 PRNG seeded by the date drives the whole map, so every player worldwide compares the same commute.
  • Crisp pixel art at any screen density, drawn on a low-res offscreen canvas and integer-scaled with smoothing off.
  • A Local → Express difficulty curve: the ticker speeds up and an EXP badge appears once your train hits 12 passengers.
  • Streaks tracked on a MetroCard that earns a punch per day, plus instant swipe-up-to-re-board restarts. No menus, ever.

Outcome

Vanilla TypeScript and a <canvas>, with no framework and no runtime dependencies. The whole game ships as a static bundle and the tutorial is one sentence: swipe anywhere.