Powderline

Powderline is a free browser snowboarding game about escaping a storm over one 2100 m descent. Your board angle builds speed: point downhill to accelerate, carve across the slope for control, tuck to reduce drag, and brake before tight turns. Tucking makes the board slower to answer, so holding speed through every obstacle is a costly choice.

The first 300 m introduce a straight gate, a centre rock to go around, a wider turn and an optional ramp. After that, your mountain seed determines the route. Powder Bowl tests snow reading, Timber replaces ice with tree walls and gaps, and The Cornice brings slippery ice and unavoidable snow lips. The last 135 m form a winding rock corridor.

Packed snow gives balanced grip. Matte white powder grips harder but costs speed in a carve. Shiny blue ice lets your board turn while your momentum keeps sliding; brake before entering it. The snow label reports your actual surface, and striped stakes mark the piste edges.

The storm bar shows how close the front is, and inside 35 m the label adds the metres. For the first 400 m the storm stays right behind you: ride clean and it drops back, crash and it rolls in, because it does not slow down the moment you fall. Passing between a pair of flags pushes it back 14 m. A clean 360 spin or a full flip buys 38 m. Pull far ahead and the storm speeds up to close the gap, so a huge lead never lasts. During the surge in Timber it closes to about 55 m behind you for ten seconds: straight escape lines become more valuable than another gate.

In the air, hold a steering key or arrow pad to spin, or W/up for a front flip and S/down for a back flip (the green and red pedals on a phone). Release and the board settles before landing if it is already close to level. Green landing feedback requires a full rotation and an aligned board; a half spin lands you backwards and a half flip lands you on your head, and both are wipeouts. Holding the speed key through the take-off does not flip you: let go once in the air, then press again.

At 320 m a checkpoint sign rates your opening with a bronze, silver or gold medal for the first three gates, shows your gates and spins so far and names the next target, all without stopping the run. Finish to earn the Escape medal. Finish with at least 8 gates for Slalom, or with 2 clean spin or flip landings for Freestyle. You can earn the three medals on different successful attempts at the same mountain. SAME MOUNTAIN repeats its layout, including after a page reload; NEW MOUNTAIN gives another route. Your best distance, fastest finish and medals are saved locally for the most recent 24 mountains.

A/D or the arrow keys carve, W/up/Space tuck, S/down brake, and R retries the same mountain. With a mouse, hold either side of the scene to carve. On a phone, the bottom-left arrows carve, and so does holding the left or right half of the screen; the tall green pedal gives speed and the red pedal brakes. A quick tap on a carve or speed control gives a short carve or tuck, and holding gives the full move. The run waits for your first input.