Tiny Racer
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
A FREE top down racer with casual driving mechanics but realistic racing strategy. With now 11 different tracks to visit, customise your own tiny racer and go race!
GAME MODES
Custom Tournament - A multi-race event where you recieve points after each round depending on where you place. The racer that has accumulated the most points after all rounds are complete, wins. Opponents and races can be customised during setup. Autosave is enabled for this mode. So your progress is always saved.
Single Race - One race event to compete in. You can choose the race and track options during race setup.
FEATURES
Tire Wear - If tire wear is enabled, your tires will wear down over time, so you must enter the pit and change them before they become unusable. Tires at 0% will be very difficult to use. There are 2 dry tires to choose from. It's best to plan your tire strategy before the race.
Weather System - If weather is set to simulation, rain may be present during the race. Wet tires work well in rain, so it may be best to pit for them if the weather gets really bad. Be warned wet tires don't work so well during dry weather.
Damage System - Hitting barriers and other racers will cause damage to your car. If you car falls to 0% health, you will be forced to retire from the race. Pitting will repair your car back to full health without costing any additional pit time.
UPDATED FEBRUARY 2024: Now with team races and a damage system!
More features, more tracks, and better graphics to come!
Download
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Development log
- Damage, Teams and Stats - Update to V0.4Feb 12, 2024
- Custom Tournaments, Weather & More - Update to V0.3Dec 21, 2023
- Tires and Pitstops - Update to V0.2May 03, 2023
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Such a solid foundation. AI is extremely entertaining and the races are so unpredictable with various pit strategies, weather and crashes. Please keep working on this game and release it on Steam. It has HUGE POTENTIAL!
Thanks, yes this is still being worked (just very slowly). The next update will be coming early 2025, which'll include the main championship mode, more tracks and other features. The plan is to eventually put it on steam once its closer to a finished product.
It’s been a year since I’ve done a gameplay video of this and now I made another one just to show what changes the developer made and this video is even longer than the previous.
Once again, nice work!
Thanks!!
Is it possible to have a better grip and a less drifty car? Also for the macOS download, it downloaded the iOS version, was that supposed to happen?
Every version I look at that car handling and I feel its at a good spot at the moment, the difting feels like an important part of the game. There is only windows and macOs versions, so that was a naming error in the last version. Thanks for spotting.
Great work on this game! Really fun to play, as well as challenging enough to keep you trying. The different cars, tracks and having to deal with strategy are great features that aren't in many free indie racers, and are usually not executed as well as they are in this one. It runs pretty well, even on my decade old macbook air. excited to see the future update with all the new features!
after some deep pondering, only thing i would ask is for a particle or quality reducer thing(?). something to reduce the amount of particles in the rain and blossoms or the pixels overall (i know nothing about game development so sorry if its vague) so that you customize it to make performance better. the other thing is that after the podium cutscene, when i try to go to the garage, it just freezes and buffers. I then have to force quit the game to get it back to working again. I dunno if this is just a problem i am having or if it is terminal.
Thanks for the feedback. Shame to hear you are having trouble on macOS, performance optimisation is definately something I will need to look into. I will see what I can do about the freezing when leaving a race. The good news is in the next v0.4 update, I am implementing an options screen where you can adjust the quality settings, which will hopefully help.
That sound great! One more thing, I don't know if you have thought about this already, but having there be some way to standardise car models in a tournament would be great. Having them all be different models can break the fun and there are some models that i just don't wanna race with that much. I know it can be changed in the custom tourney, but having that in the future tournament mode is a must for me.
can you make it zo you can chance the controls?
Nobody has ever done a gameplay video of this so I’m the only person who made that video.
Cheers buddy, nice job!
Thanks Joe. Glad you enjoyed watching my gameplay video!
Thanks!, i'll be definitely playing and trying to get 1st!
Good work bro! ..skidmarks would be ideal!
This game is awesome! Would love to see more maps added in the future
Nice work, your website is down btw
Cool and fun game, I enjoyed playing it! the maps are good, the logic is good, and the overall experience was pretty fun. the only trick, which i feel is intentional, is the static camera mixed with the lack of knowledge of where the course is, makes it so you can't do well unless you've played the course once or twice beforehand.