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Canvas API: Full-screen procedural 2D renderer for the tower stacking playfield, including the crane, live cable, platform, square blocks, and controlled camera follow.🧱🏗️
Touch Events: Captures full-screen taps to release the hanging block and restart after game over.
Physics2D: Provides the controlled gravity and collision-ready physics simulation underpinning the active tower block lifecycle.
Sprite Store: Restored STANDARD building texture store with the eight re-uploaded facade images. Queue entries retain their exact selected texture from NEXT preview through spawning.
List of Friends: Supplies friend Bitmoji identities so queued building residents can be assigned from the player and available friends.
Sprite Store: Restored the eight newly re-uploaded NARROW building textures. Each queued NARROW entry retains its exact texture from the NEXT preview through spawning, using the existing narrow gameplay width and the shared block height.
Sprite Store: Restored the re-uploaded industrial hook texture for the live cable-to-building connection; it keeps the current size and movement behavior.
Sprite Store: Five gameplay backgrounds in the fixed City, Sky, Night, Deep Night, and Space sequence. They now move smoothly downward in the opposite direction of the tower at a slower parallax rate, with Space looping.
Bitmoji Sticker Store: Provides varied medium-body positive Bitmoji reactions only for successful placements. The same assigned player or friend is retained while happy-smile, heart-eyes, and excited-relieved reactions are selected without consecutive repeats.
Leaderboard: Global high-score leaderboard for Tower Stack. The final score is submitted and the rankings are shown only after the run has ended.
Haptics: Provides one subtle short vibration on each falling block's first physical contact with the tower or starting platform.
Canvas API: Transparent high-layer renderer for the single vertical ten-cell level meter. It reads the editable level bar layout and draws discrete yellow progress cells with a solid black border.
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I created Neon Byte Runner, a fast-paced retro arcade game Lens for Snapchat inspired by classic endless dodgers and 80s neon aesthetics. Built entirely using prompt-based iteration in EasyLens, the game includes:
Procedural Pixel-Art Visuals: Glowing neon ships, data bugs, energy bytes, and background scanlines drawn in real time for crisp rendering across all screen sizes.
Drag-and-Dodge Controls: Intuitive mobile steering where players dodge incoming "data bugs" and collect "energy bytes" for score multiplier points.
Dynamic Damage System: A three-life mechanic where taking damage physically breaks off spaceship parts (wings and tail) with visual particle flares.
Magical Heart Repairs: Rare falling heart powerups that grant an extra life and visually repair broken spaceship parts back onto the ship.
Chiptune Audio & Global Leaderboard: Custom-generated arcade music and sound effects paired with an integrated HUD and leaderboard to drive replayability.
💡 Why I Built It
Reimagining Classic Arcade Mechanics for AR:
I wanted to capture the instant-play energy of old-school arcade cabinets and adapt it into a social, mobile-first Snapchat Lens. The goal was to create a game that takes seconds to learn, but offers enough depth and escalating difficulty to keep players saying, "Just one more run."
Visual & Emotional Damage Feedback:
Instead of relying on a standard health bar, I wanted players to feel the stakes. Making the ship parts physically break off and scatter across the screen creates an immediate, dramatic feedback loop when you make a mistake—and grabbing a rare heart to repair your ship feels genuinely rewarding.
Pushing the Boundaries of Prompt-Based Game Design:
As a developer, I wanted to explore how far prompt engineering inside EasyLens could go. I set out to prove that you can build complete, highly polished game systems—including state management, procedural rendering, sound synthesis, and dynamic damage states—purely by guiding AI with precise multi-step prompts.
✨ How EasyLens Made It Possible
Using EasyLens, I didn't need to hop between traditional 3D software, external audio workstations, or manual script compilers. I iterated through targeted prompts to handle:
Generating procedural visual assets on the fly.
Setting up custom arcade music and dynamic sound triggers.
Fine-tuning game controls, collision boxes, and damage states.
EasyLens handled the heavy lifting, allowing me to focus on game feel, pacing, and player experience
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