Image: Roadflip / Niko Draca
A Canadian software engineer has built a free browser game that puts Tesla’s next-generation Roadster on a giant curved ramp, then asks players to flip it midair and land on their wheels, the same stunt vibe Tesla showed at its Waco reveal.
Niko Draca, a software engineer based in Canada, published Roadflip as a free web game anyone can open without an install. He framed it as practice for the tricks fans want to try once the real car arrives, not as an official Tesla product.
Gameplay is short and direct. Players hold Enter to pull the car back on the ramp and release to launch, with a longer hold building more speed. Arrow keys control flips and rolls in the air, and Space fires thrusters that stop the spin and push out through the floor so the car can straighten for a wheels-down landing. On-screen keys are available for touch devices.
Scoring tracks vertical flips, horizontal flips, launch speed in km/h, air time, and distance. Miss the landing and the run ends in a crash; stick it and the score climbs. A short in-game tutorial walks through the launch, flip, and thruster steps before the first full attempt. It is also actually pretty fun, the kind of game where one botched landing turns into ten more launches.
That ramp-and-thruster fantasy tracks what Tesla put on stage last month. The company unveiled Performance, Thrust, and Rocket configurations in Texas, with the top Rocket setup using perimeter cold-gas thrusters Tesla says can push the car forward, up, sideways, and through rotation. Vehicle engineering chief Lars Moravy later argued the flight math is straightforward once those thrusters are in play, and a separate cockpit clip showed a Track Mode screen with a 5,500 PSI thruster gauge.
Elon Musk has also teased a wild looping track at Tesla’s Texas headquarters for Roadster owners, a promise that sits beside the same show-car culture Roadflip is riffing on. The browser game will not replace a real demo, but it gives fans a low-stakes way to rehearse the launch-flip-land sequence Tesla put in front of cameras.
Would you rather practice Roadster thruster landings in a free browser game first, or wait and see the real car clear that ramp in person?
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