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Arcade

Two playable builds. Warehouse Dash is a forklift logistics game running on regional Cloud Run shards at 10 ticks a second, with AI bots racing you for pallets. Aetheria is an open-world Three.js sandbox. Both run right here in your browser.

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Behind the game

Drive an autonomous warehouse forklift across regional Cloud Run shards, manage #dash battery boosts, and race AI bot fleets in a live 10 Hz isometric logistics loop.

Read the essay: What I'm building this week(/month/quarter) → See the code →
Warehouse Dash Region DEN-1 Battery 100% Delivered 3 pallets Position (3.0, 4.0) · SEEKING PALLET
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Keys: WASD / arrows to move · Space to boost · R to reset
Region: us-central1
Aetheria Embedded from Cloud Run
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How it works
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ai.languageModel.capabilities()

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2 · Reuse
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Copies a warmed-up session so the shared instructions aren't reprocessed on every question.

3 · Tools
document.modelContext

Gives the model a few read-only tools for searching and reading this site.

4 · Fallback
Vertex AI

If the browser can't answer, the question goes to a cloud model instead.

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Drive the forklift around the warehouse, pick up the gold pallets and drop them at the dock — or switch to Aetheria, a 3D world served from Cloud Run.
Architecture

How the games are hosted

Two games on Cloud Run

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How Warehouse Dash and Aetheria are hosted on Cloud Run Left: Warehouse Dash runs in four regional servers (den-1, slc-2, phx-3, abq-4). Its lobby refuses to be framed, so this page draws its own playable canvas. Right: Aetheria, a Three.js 3D world, is embedded directly from Cloud Run. Game 01 · Warehouse Dash Forklift delivery game • Regions: den-1 · slc-2 · phx-3 · abq-4 • Battery boost and computer-driven rivals warehouse-lobby…run.app Game 02 · Aetheria 3D world in Three.js • Generated terrain and sky • Embedded straight from Cloud Run open-world-threejs…run.app
The Warehouse Dash lobby sends X-Frame-Options: DENY, so it can't be embedded. This page draws a playable version of the warehouse itself and links out to the full multiplayer lobby. Aetheria allows framing, so it's embedded as-is.
Endpoints

Where the games run

Games in the arcade and their live status
Game Type URL Framing Status
Warehouse Dash: Isometric Forklift Logistics Isometric Logistics & Fleet Simulation https://warehouse-lobby-txgsracloq-uc.a.run.app ↗ Checking… Checking…
Aetheria: Open-World Three.js WebGL Sandbox WebGL / Three.js Interactive World https://open-world-threejs-txgsracloq-uc.a.run.app ↗ Checking… Checking…
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