Brakeless — a no-brakes driving game in vanilla TypeScript + Canvas (no engine)

[brakeless]

Hey everyone, first post here. I've spent the last few months building
Brakeless, a top-down driving game where your brakes are gone — you dodge
traffic and survive as long as you can, from a city street through 11
scenes to somewhere much worse.

Play (free, browser, no signup): https://brakeless.io
Desktop + keyboard recommended (arrows or A/D). Touch works on mobile but
it's tuned for desktop.

Tech bits, since this is a dev forum:

- Vanilla TypeScript + Canvas 2D. No engine, no runtime dependencies,
just Vite for bundling.
- Almost everything is procedural or pre-rendered at load: oblique
GTA2-style buildings baked to offscreen strips and tiled, procedural car
sprites, DPR-aware scaling so it stays crisp on hidpi screens.
- Sound effects are procedural Web Audio (engine rumble, near-miss
whooshes).
- Fairness is enforced with actual math: a solvability guard projects
every spawn against the union of upcoming obstacle envelopes, so the game
can never build a literally impassable wall of traffic.
- Favorite bug so far: one late-game two-lane street would sometimes go
completely empty. The spawn safety guards made the two traffic directions
starve each other — a bistable system. I only found it by writing a
headless traffic simulator and running it across seeds until the pattern
showed up.

Two things I'd especially love feedback on:

1. Where did you die, and did any death feel unfair? The public build has
no telemetry, so reports like this are literally my only tuning data.
2. Any performance problems — device/browser and where it stuttered, if
it did.

Happy to go into detail on any of it: the rendering pipeline, the traffic
behavior, or the difficulty envelope system.