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Street Surge running on a 32×32 LED panel
32×32 · Livereal render
GamesLive4 players

Street Surge

Pseudo-3D night street race: laps of curves and hills against rival cars on four tracks. Left/right steer, A fires nitro, down/B brakes. Up to four players race each other or in two teams; the camera follows whoever is behind.

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At a glance

OutputLiveRendered by the engine and streamed over Bluetooth as its data changes (about 5–9 frames a second).
Settings14every one editable live in the studio, or by an agent with update_app_settings
ButtonsRestart · Autoplaystudio buttons, or app_action over MCP
Sourcegames_road.pysrc/deskdot/apps/games_road.py

Game

Players1–4seat 1 on the keyboard or studio, the rest on phones over your Wi-Fi; empty seats are played by the AI
Controllers
Tap zonesTiltAnalog stickGamepadD-pad

Modes

ModePlayersPlay
Grand Prix default1Solo
Versus2–4Free-for-all
Team Race2–4Teams

Maps

CityCoast RoadMountain PassSpeedway

Themes

ClassicNeonRetroMonoMidnightDuskFrost

Settings

Settings
SettingTypeDefaultOptions / range
General
Speedspeedwhole number51 – 10
ThemethemechoiceMidnight
ClassicNeonRetroMonoMidnightDuskFrost
AI skillskillHow well the demo AI playsnumber0.80.0 – 1.0
Show scoreshow_scoreon/offOnon / off
Graphics
EffectseffectschoiceFull (particles, shake, flashes)
Full (particles, shake, flashes)Calm (no shake or flashes)Minimal
Game flow
Intro & results screensintro_outroon/offOnon / off
Play itself when idleattractThe AI plays while nobody does (great in a playlist)on/offOnon / off
Plays itself withpilotchoiceBuilt-in AI
Built-in AIFruit-fly brain (sees only the pixels; docs/FLY_BRAIN.md)
Game
Rivalsrivalswhole number51 – 7
Hillshillson/offOnon / off
Lapslapswhole number21 – 5
ModemodechoiceGrand Prix
Grand PrixVersusTeam Race
MapmapchoiceCity
CityCoast RoadMountain PassSpeedway
Playersplayerswhole number11 – 4

Try it

render a frame to PNG (no panel needed)
$ uv run deskdot preview streetsurge --settings '{"theme":"classic"}' --out streetsurge.png
show it on your panel (engine running)
$ curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8765/api/apps/streetsurge/activate

Or ask your agent: “Show Street Surge on my panel”. It calls show_app with "streetsurge". New here? Set up DeskDot first.

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