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A developer built a browser-based synthwave driving game called Sunday DEV Drive that turns DEV Community articles into neon billboards along an infinite procedural road. Enter any DEV username and cruise through a retro-futuristic cityscape where your article titles, cover images, and real quotes appear as clickable roadside billboards. Built with Three.js, vanilla JavaScript (12 ES modules, zero build tools), the Canvas API, and the public DEV API, the project features procedural road generation via a stochastic steering algorithm, canvas-rendered billboard textures, raycasting for click detection, a car assembled from 46 geometric primitives, and three modes: personal articles, motivational mode for users without posts, and a test drive for non-members. Key technical highlights include rate-limit-aware API batching (25 articles with 350ms delays), a Markdown snippet extractor, and simple but effective car physics with a diminishing-returns acceleration model.

Sunday DEV Drive: A Synthwave Driving Experience Through Your DEV Community Articles

Giorgi Kobaidze

Do you ever feel like playing a game but also staying productive and discovering new articles from your favorite authors? Well, you're in luck 'cause now you can do both.

<p>Do you ever feel like playing a game but also staying productive and discovering new articles from your favorite authors? Well, you're in luck 'cause now you can do both.</p>