# 🚗 Awards Racing (three.js + Bullet)

**URL:** <https://discourse.threejs.org/t/awards-racing-three-js-bullet/94423>\
**Category:** Showcase\
**Created:** [September 17, 2026, 5:41am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/awards-racing-three-js-bullet/94423 "2026-09-17T05:41:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![uxblonde](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.threejs.org/uxblonde/32/12630_2.png) [@uxblonde](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/uxblonde)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 5:41am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/awards-racing-three-js-bullet/94423/1 "2026-09-17T05:41:02Z")

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**Awards Racing** — a browser game about drifting and fighting your way through an endless, physics-dense world, built with three.js and the Bullet physics engine (compiled to WebAssembly). Made mostly for fun, with a slightly unhinged theme: you’re a young design-award nominee racing to the top, dodging angry jury members and rival nominees along the way.

## Live demo: [https://awards.racing](https://awards.racing)

**Gameplay Video** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDc9w1-xjvU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDc9w1-xjvU)

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## Highlights

- Infinite plane packed with destructible physical clutter — objects are pooled, not allocated mid-game, and streamed in/out in cells around the car
- Arcade-tuned drift on top of Bullet’s car physics — fun over sim-accuracy
- Soft-body characters: no skeleton, each driver is a sphere of mass points and springs, deformed live and synced to the beat of the soundtrack
- Physics-driven VFX — explosions and projectiles actually push the same objects the car smashes through
- Custom explicit scene submission (long-lived objects baked into linear arrays instead of the default `renderer.render(scene, camera)`) plus a small JSON-based render-pipeline constructor, running on both WebGL2 and WebGPU
- Stage progression with smarter/faster rivals, a full material swap per stage, two camera modes, day/night
- Touch controls, gamepad, a dedicated portrait UI for mobile