Brainzap is a simple arcade-style shooter game. The player is able to rotate left in right like a turret and use a mouse cursor to fire at incoming projectiles. Periodically, a storm develops and recedes, and while the clouds are thickest, the player finds that moving the mouse causes the screen to flicker and obscure the whole environment.
I made this for a project in my Creative Computation class, for which we were assigned to create a game depicting mental thought using HTML's Canvas and Javascript. I chose to depict what it's like to think while suffering from anxiety, specifically, the phenomenon of brain zaps—a feeling like an electric shock in the head that some experience as a symptom of anxiety, or as a side-effect or withdrawal symptom of some medications. In some cases, brain zaps can be triggered by the person moving their eyes.
I am mostly proud of this game as a technical feat; I set myself up with the lofty goal of building a pseudo-3D environment from the ground up, and it turned out pretty much exactly the way I wanted.