Long Way Home in California
Top down, sun low, take it slow.
A relaxing browser driving game with no goal. A convertible drives itself along a golden-hour Highway 1, through little beach towns, while K-JAM 101.1's Rick and Dana read an overdramatic traffic report between classic-rock-style songs.
A game by gghui. Built with three.js.
Play
Open the GitHub Pages link in a phone or desktop browser and tap Tap to drive. Turn the sound on.
- ◀ ↑ ▶ (or the arrow keys) pick your turn at the next intersection. Otherwise the autopilot decides.
- Tap the radio display to request a song. ♪ LYRICS under the display shows the words as they're sung. VOL on the radio sets the volume or mutes.
- The map button shows the coast around you, or the town's streets.
- The camera button makes a vintage postcard of your drive, with your hands-free time, to share or save. You get one automatically at 30 minutes and 1 hour hands-free.
- Focus drive (on the title screen or in settings): a 20 or 30 minute focus timer. When it is up, the car pulls over for a 5-minute break by the ocean, then the next session starts.
- Hands-free counts how long you've stayed in the game without switching apps. Rick and Dana notice.
- Settings has tilt steering, cruise speed (60 to 160 km/h), host voices, calm mode and high-quality graphics (turn off to save battery).
- No sound on iPhone? Check the silent switch.
Project layout
index.html is the whole game in one file (it is also published as a Claude artifact).build.ps1 builds the GitHub Pages site into docs/, adding the page head, share-preview tags and icons.docs/ is the published site, including docs/audio/ (music, voices, nature sounds). Don't edit it by hand; rebuild instead.production/ holds the audio scripts, lyrics and the processing scripts that make docs/audio/.share.png is the link-preview image, and icon.svg / icon-180.png are the browser and home-screen icons.
To rebuild the site after changing index.html:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File build.ps1 -SiteUrl https://longwayhome.itsgordonhui.com/
The world is generated in the browser from rules, with no real maps or brands. Songs were made with Suno, voices with ElevenLabs, and nature sounds are CC0 recordings from Freesound (see production/NATURE-SOURCES.md).
Car models: your car is "1962 Corvette c1" by Plate Models, licensed CC-BY 4.0 (top removed and repainted in the game). Traffic cars are from the Quaternius Cars Pack (CC0), baked by production/bake-traffic.js into docs/models/traffic.bin.
