Traffic Racer (3D Endless Racing) for iOS

After 8 months of development, Traffic Racer is now available on the App Store for iPhone, iPod and iPad. I want to thank to the Unity community for the support during the development.

App Store Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/traffic-racer/id547101139?ls=1&mt=8








Gameplay Trailer for update 1.5:

[video=youtube_share;E4bpHZLRhPY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4bpHZLRhPY



I will really appreciate if you support and give some feedback, so I will continue improving the game.
Thanks..

 

Looks good - i like the graphics.
I am just missing some explosions when the cars crash. ;D

Keep us updated how your game does!

 

Thanks Ethan, yeah the explosions.... people want some violence I think . But I will consider it for the next updates.

 

Look nice man!

 

Thanks.. Did anyone having an iPad1 try the game? I wonder how it performs on it.

 

Awesome!

I have an iPad v1 I can try this on tomorrow if you'd like.

-Chilton

 

Just to follow up, I tested it on a first gen iPad and it works great!

 

The cars all look amazing, the physics, the shadows (real-time?), the reflections. Only the stuff off-road doesn't look as nice.

 

That looks like an awesome time killer.

 

@chilton, thanks, that's good news. The time spent to optimizations worth it

@Wolfos, thanks, shadows are not real-time, they are fake mesh with semi-transparent materials.

@KHopcraft, thanks, I'm sure it's

Some stats.. The game is currently in Top 5 Paid Apps in Russia and Turkey. And #5 Top Racing game in Italy...

 

looks cool. for me what would make it more fun is when strange objects, animals and people start strolling across the street, or things start falling off trucks etc.

 

Looks fun!

 

Bought it...looks pretty cool, I'm in the similar situation BTW where you were...began my game 8 months ago still pretty far from finished, I'm learning as I go. Anyway, good luck!

 

That's my civic man!!
Looks great! Android?

 

Thanks for the comments..
@nuked, currently no plans for android.

 

I have just submitted v1.1 to the App Store, which includes a new car, GC achivements, iPhone 5 support and many more... I hope it will be available in a few days. Is the review process any shorter for updates?

 

Traffic Racer 1.1 update is finally available! Here is the full changelog:

* Optimized for iPhone 5
* Added 1 new car
* Added 22 Game Center Achievements
* Added 2 new music tracks
* Rebalanced scoring system
* New Leaderboard for new scores
* Brakes are now upgradable
* Better cars now have better braking
* Better cars now have better acceleration
* Steering mode can be set in main menu
* Added support for screen rotation
* Slightly reduced memory usage
* Other minor fixes

 

I looks really cool, you should release it for Android too and maybe submit it for Steam?

 

Thanks, but I will continue with iOS for a while.

 

I was very curious how you implemented the traffic going by? Are they simply AI on a waypoint system moving from node to node or is something more complex than that? It looks like something very similar to what I want to accomplish with basic traffic in a city.

 

Looks awesome, I think explosions actually would make it even better. And you should add a few visual tricks to make it look a little better, some lens flares, motion blur, etc etc.

Hopefully I can make a game of this calaber one day, too bad its not on android...

Good luck!

 

@JamesArndt, the traffic has neither a complex AI nor a waypoint system. The cars continuously check their front and sides, to see whether it's empty or not. So, it's not very efficient.

 

Thanks, I had a lot of complaints about the explosions and will try to fix it, at least on newer devices.

 

looks great! what part of developing was the hardest one?

 

I think there was no hard part specially, but the most boring and frustrating part was the final touches and and overall polishing of the game.

 

where did you make the models? They look great. And just a question, you don't have to share you secrets, but how exactly did you manage to make the never-ending plane?

 

I'm not an artist, therefore I've bought them here and there. Never ending thing is not a secret, there are 'pieces' of road and they repeat seamlessly so that player thinks it as endless an plane.

 

well good luck, if it does ever go up on steam greenlight, xbox live, or android. I'll buy it for sure. And I think if you made the camera angles zoom in when you reach certain benchmarks or crash would be great. Again good luck.

 

Hi again, I have been working on the second update, which will bring a new snowy track and more cars. Here is the first in-game screen: Hope you like it!

 

I love the snowy roads, they seem to have more depth and realism? My son is addicted to this game at the moment, it reminded him of a motorbike game on Android that had similar game mechanics, so thanks for keeping him entertained

 

Thanks gavinb, I'm happy for your son, since he has upgraded from racing moto to traffic racer . I will keem him entertianed forever

 

The snowy roads look really nice! Good job.

 

Thanks Rush Rage... now experimenting with shuriken to get it work efficiently with iPod Touch 4th and above..

 

So how is your game doing so far? Are you happy with the results?
Hope you don't mind my curiosity.

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Hi Ethan, the game did well in some countries (Italy, Switzerland, Turkey and Russia) and reached 30k downloads in total. Nowadays, it's slowed down a lot.

The game was listed at top 5 paid games in those countries for a week or so.

 

update 1.2 is getting closer. Here are the 2 new cars that will be available in 1.2. Hope you like it. Any feedback is appreciated.

 

Not version Web browser ?

I think it's can to be good to have a free web browser version, and purchase pack for money ...

With this free web version, you will to have free many player, but this player can take the IOS version ...

PS: i'm a french, sorry for my english

 

@Gamin Zone FR, the game is meant to be played with touch and tilt controls. So, mobile is the only way to go for me currently.

 

I'm sorry to not have a mobile

I think it's error to have only this way, how many people have IOS mobile in the world, and how many people have pc-mac browser ?

It's hard to change control for keyboard ?

Do you know ANGRY GRAM RUN ? a free web version exist for example ... and this create the buzz ...

My idea is to put your game on the Gaming Zone ...

 

Hi all, Traffic Racer 1.2 is now live on the App Store. Here is the full change log:

- Added snowy track
- Added 2 new cars
- Added 3 new music tracks
- Fixed some frame rate issues on older devices
- Money counting after game is now faster
- Traffic density is reduced back to normal periodically
- Various improvements and fixes

 

The game looks really nice. Just bought it. It provided me with a lot of motivation to learn Unity myself, which I obviously appreciate - thanks.

How long did it take you to get enough knowledge in Unity to make a game that feels like a real game (if you know what I mean)? I have just started with Unity and I am not sure if it is worth spending time on. I suppose that it takes a pretty long time before I can even create something decent.

 

@Thegusse, thanks for the nice comment. I have learned -and still learning- Unity while developing the actual game. I didn't spent much time on documents, tutorials, etc. except the video tutorials on unity3dstudent. So I've almost directly jumped into development. (I already had some programming background)

 

It feels like real driving, I like it a lot!

 

Thanks. Yeah, the 'feel' of driving is the key of this game, which is, however, hard to show with some screenshots

 

I have a jailbroken iPhone 5 so I can get this game for free. But I see you are working hard to make this game epic and I bought it. Thank you very much for the game I'm addicted right now.

 

Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

 

Hi again, I have some good news Traffic Racer is just updated to v1.3. Here is the list of changes:

- Added a new drivable truck!
- Added a new game mode : Two Way Endless
- Added two new leaderboards : Max Combo and Distance
- Various improvements and bug fixes

Also, I have prepared a new trailer for the updated game. Enjoy!

 

That looks extremely fun!!! Great job!
Wish I had an iPhone

 

Thanks, devil_Inside. I wish you had one You are missing a lot

 

I follow this thread just to watch the gameplay, because I don't have an Iphone! ;(

Seems to be an awesome game!