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A space shooter where momentum is your weapon and everything explodes.

Download for macOS / Windows

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What is this?

Void Drift is a standalone desktop space shooter with LAN multiplayer for up to 4 players. Fly through a procedural WebGL plasma nebula, fight alien fleets, unlock 10 levels of escalating abilities, and chase high scores through a combo system that rewards aggressive play.

The signature mechanic is the drift -- hold left-click to decouple your movement from your aim, sliding through space while firing in any direction. At higher levels, drifting transforms from a movement tool into an offensive weapon.

Download

Pre-built binaries for macOS and Windows are available on the Releases page.

• macOS: .dmg installer (Apple Silicon + Intel)
• Windows: .msi installer

macOS users: if Gatekeeper blocks the app ("damaged" warning), run xattr -cr /Applications/Void\ Drift.app in Terminal.

Features

10-Level Progression

Level up by killing enemies. Each level grants a new ability that changes how you play:

Lvl	Name	Ability
1	Scout	Single cannon, nimble movement
2	Gunner	Twin cannons -- two alternating bullet streams
3	Ace	Rapid fire -- faster fire rate, 15% faster bullets
4	Vanguard	Rear gun -- fires backward at pursuing enemies
5	Striker	Piercing rounds -- bullets pass through to a second target
6	Predator	Homing rounds -- bullets curve toward nearby enemies
7	Warden	Shield pulse -- AoE knockback + damage when your shield breaks
8	Tempest	Overdrive -- 10s no-hit streak doubles fire rate for 5s
9	Sovereign	Wingmen -- two autonomous drone ships orbit and fire independently
10	Void Walker	Void drift -- phase through bullets + 2x damage while drifting

Combo System

Chain kills within 4 seconds to build a combo multiplier (up to 6x). Drifting extends the timer to 6 seconds. High combos mean faster leveling and bigger scores. The multiplier blinks when about to expire -- one more kill to keep the chain alive.

The Drift

Hold left-click (or Space with WASD) to drift. Your ship captures its current velocity and coasts -- decouple movement from aiming, slide through enemy formations, bounce off walls. Drifting also:

• Extends combo timer (4s -> 6s)
• Doubles shield recharge rate
• At Level 10: grants bullet immunity and 2x damage (with 3s cooldown)

Enemy Types

• Saucers -- laser weapons, hover oscillation
• Fighters -- torpedo burst attacks
• Corvettes -- large warships that warp in with 4 shields, alternating torpedo + laser
• Carriers -- mothership bosses that spawn elite enemies and fire bullet-hell torpedo barrages
• Elites -- carrier-spawned pursuers with extra HP, shields, and aggressive AI

Corvettes break into burning debris chunks on death. Carriers have a 6-second multi-phase death sequence with escalating internal explosions, hull breakup, and a cataclysmic final detonation.

Multiplayer

LAN multiplayer for up to 4 players. The app runs a WebSocket server -- other players on the same network connect via browser at http://<your-ip>:3800. Host-client model with automatic host migration.

Visuals

• WebGL plasma nebula -- procedural simplex noise background with ship repulsion and explosion displacement
• 250-star parallax starfield -- stars streak into speed lines based on ship velocity
• 2000-particle system -- massive explosions, engine trails, drift effects, fireworks
• CRT post-processing -- scanlines, vignette, neon glow (CSS, zero perf cost)
• New high score celebration -- fireworks and fighter flybys

Controls

Input	Action
Mouse	Move ship (auto-fires at nearest target)
WASD	Alternative movement
Left-click / Space	Drift
P	Pause
Shift+P	Performance overlay

Tech

Desktop	Tauri v2 (Rust + WebView)
Backend	axum + tokio-tungstenite
Rendering	WebGL (plasma) + Canvas 2D (starfield, game)
Audio	Web Audio API with spatial stereo panning
Binary size	~35 MB (mostly audio assets)

Building from Source

Requires Rust and the Tauri CLI:

cargo install tauri-cli --version "^2"
git clone https://github.com/Voxinator/VoidDriftBinary.git
cd VoidDriftBinary
cp src/index.html src-tauri/index.html
cargo tauri build

Output: src-tauri/target/release/bundle/

Origin Story

This game started as a background decoration for a localhost dashboard. A WebGL plasma nebula, then twinkling stars, then a little ship that followed your cursor. Then the ship needed something to shoot at. Two days later the "background decoration" had a boss fight, a particle system, and LAN multiplayer.

It got its own name, its own repo, and eventually a standalone desktop app with a 10-level progression system, a combo engine, and enough particle effects to stress-test a GPU. Scope creep wins when you lean into it.

The browser version lives at Voxinator/VoidDrift.

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A game by Taylor Creative, Copyright 2026. Built by Voxinator.