NeuroDash: Antigravity Edition 🚀🧠

NeuroDash is an interactive, browser-based cognitive decision-making game built entirely with HTML5 Canvas, CSS, and Vanilla JavaScript. Designed with a sleek, modern space aesthetic, the game challenges players to make rapid split-second decisions while tracking detailed cognitive metrics under pressure.

🎮 Gameplay Overview

• Collect. Decide. Survive. — Navigate your spacecraft to collect the "Good" items (green ✚) while simultaneously dodging the "Bad" items (red ✕).
• Escalating Difficulty — The speed and spawn rates increase dynamically as you progress through higher levels.
• Combo System — Build your combo multiplier by stringing together correct decisions to maximize your score.

📊 Cognitive Tracking & Analytics

NeuroDash acts as a mini-experiment in measuring human reaction times. During your session, the game actively records data and outputs a comprehensive post-game performance report, including:

• Accuracy: Percentage of correct choices made versus wrong moves.
• Average Reaction Time (ms): The speed at which you react to new items spawning on screen.
• Miss Rate: How many positive items slipped by uncollected.
• Stress Score (out of 100): A custom algorithm that calculates your "stress" level based on accumulated miss rates and slowed reaction times under pressure.
• CSV Export: Easily download your performance log (neurodash_session.csv) locally for further analysis or data science projects!

💻 Technologies Used

• HTML5 Canvas: For rendering the high-performance starfield background, ship physics, and particles.
• CSS3: For the glassmorphism UI, floating popups, and the clean Google-inspired Heads-Up Display (HUD).
• Vanilla JavaScript: For the core game loop, entity management, collision tracking, and CSV data generation.

🚀 How to Play

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Open neurodash_antigravity.html in any modern web browser.
3. Use the Left / Right Arrow keys or A / D to steer your ship.
4. Hold Spacebar for a speed boost.