Neon Drift Racer

Designed and shipped a stylised arcade racer from first prototype to Steam launch. Authored the arcade vehicle controller — slip-angle drift model, boost economy, and camera shake — on top of a custom rigidbody rig rather than the built-in wheel colliders, so the handling stays readable at 200 km/h. Wrote the neon look as a set of HLSL surface shaders with bloom-friendly emissive masks, and built a deterministic replay system that records input frames so ghosts stay frame-accurate across machines. Optimised the render loop with GPU instancing for the crowd and trackside props to hold a locked 60 fps on mid-range hardware.