Tiny Race

Get small and climb behind the wheel in Tiny Race, an arcade-style racing experience in which the track isn't a complex course. It is your messy desktop. This unique game takes a familiar office environment and turns it into a unique, miniature racetrack, where pencils, cups, and books (and even other desktop items) become obstacles to contend with. It is a nostalgic trip that combines the simple joy of toy car racing with exhilarating arcade racing gameplay.

What Is Charming About Tiny Race?

Tiny Race evokes the childhood fantasy of racing toy cars around your desk instead of doing your homework. The scale of the racing makes familiar objects awe-inspiring. The common coffee mug becomes an impressive barrier. The stapler is a mountain to be avoided. Loose sheets of paper create troublesome surfaces that affect handling.

The desktop setting is not only a visual gimmick. It changes the feel of the racing itself. Instead of smooth asphalt, you must contend with uneven surfaces; not only that, but also become involved in the tight places between objects offered on your desktop which brings you up against the ever-present danger of being closed in by an untidy desktop! What was familiar is now all strange, for you are at the scale of the toy racing cars.

The Desktop Grand Prix

The racing is enjoyable and has the most welcome chaotic and unruly feature of being unpredictable. You will be pitting out to a lead, when suddenly you will catch sight of an alarming pencil, forcing you into a narrow corner where your unfortunate rivals await you. The layout of a desktop naturally promotes the drama needed for a close racing situation and retains the thrill without seeming unjust. Mastering the Miniature Course

The great thing about Tiny Race is its premise. Here you must guide your miniature car across the vast expanse of a world made up of piles of letter paper, stationary and bits of computer hardware. These things supply the sharp turns and tricky bumps, and tactical choke points that make up your race.

Every single thing in this desktop world to which you have access is a potential problem - requiring quick decisions and accurate driving to keep your ahead of the pack. That innocent looking stack of paper over there? It provides for a very narrow gap, advantageous to you for passing purposes provided only that you do not clip its edge with your tiny car on the way through.

The object is to get your car quicker than the cars of your opponents and still maintain control over it in those very chaotic conditions obtaining in a highly cluttered environment. This requires the most delicate lap between attaining maximum speed and the necessary amount of finesse required to negotiate the tight turns and stuff of the desktop.

Top-down, or isometric, depending on the version means that you can obtain the vision necessary to plan you route successfully. You can see what you are going to be faced with, and adjust your body position, and your course, successfully through the maze of the computer implements sited.

How to Play Tiny Race

Desktop: The arrow keys and the WASD control the tiny car. Acceleration is automatic or may be executed from the up key. Steering is managed by the left and right arrow keys. The controls are simple, but the necessary precision required is difficult.

Mobile: The touch controls supply either virtual keys or the steering is via tilt technique, according to the version. The control interface is kept simple so the attention is capable of being concentrated in the racing action.

Your objectives are: Beat the rival cars of other competitors across the finishing line. Collect the stars, which are a plentiful supply, dotted around the desktop. Avoid collisions which impede progress. Pilot around the desktop impediments without losing momentum.

Races are quick. Generally lasting no more than a couple of minutes. This makes for a good short session use, but is also of great addiction, and very conducive to running a whole series of races together, as it were, as you try to beat your previous times and secure better scores.

Arcade Action: Stars and Rivals

This is much more than a race against the time clock. It is a battle for... high points intermixed with a contest of close-quarter racing. In the desktop arena accoutrements there are shiny, starry and collectible things scattered. These are not however only a point-scoring device. In fact collecting as many of the stars as it is possible to achieve is the way to improving point-scoring level and thus proving your superiority.

Stars provide tactical decisions to be made in the course of racing. Do you take the run through the other three stars, which are scattered during the way through? Or do you take the more direct quicker route but accept a lesser score. The tricks in Tiny Race is for the greater players to combine speed with collection, seizing the stars, but refusing to concede the racing line in so doing.

However the course is crowded by other rival cars. The impulse might be, automatically to attempt to crash you through, but the conditions prevailing in the course of racing require a certain finesse.

Accident Avoidance: Bumping into rival cars slows you thereby down. This allows them to get ahead of you, and can even result in your tiny vehicle spinning off the improvised racing course. Contact is fulfilling not merely a time penalty. It can completely destroy your momentum, and result in no time from being first into position of position as the last of the race.

The AI opponents are aggressive, but fair. They'll fight for position, block you if they have a lead and take advantage of any mistakes you make. However, they also have their weaknesses. You can exploit these weaknesses if you're good enough.

Strategic positioning: Use the clutter of the desktop to your advantage. Force opponents into dead ends, while you maintain a clear line to the stars. If you know a sharp corner is coming up, take the inside line early, so that your opponents have to go the long way around.

Players experienced in the game will use the obstacles as weapons. They will lead an opponent towards a narrow gap, then cut sharply away at the last moment. The AI opponent will commit itself to the gap and become stuck, or lose valuable speed, providing you with a little breathing space.

Strategies for Desktop Domination

Learn the layout of the track. The desktop objects being stationary, memorizing the optimal ways through the clutter will give you tremendous advantages over opponents who react instinctively but randomly.

Take the racing line. Just as in real racing, the fastest way through the corners is not always the most obvious. Experiment with different lines and ways of taking corners if you want to stay at maximum speed.

Stars near opponents are bait. Don't crash trying to grab hold of a star when an enemy car is almost on top of you. Better to leave it, and stay where you are, then risk losing the star and your position as well.

Use the mistakes made by opponents. When AI cars collide with objects or one another, that’s the time to aggressively pass and create space.

Be smooth. Jerky turning loses speed. The quickest laps are done with smooth flowing movement through the desktop terrain.

Why Tiny Race is Addictive

Tiny Race is fun instantly, accessible fun making it perfect for quick breaks. The simple controls camouflage a deep and demanding mechanic in which spacial awareness and timing are all. With its charming graphics, lovingly created to capture the feel of a miniature world and the addictive circle of collecting, avoiding and speeding, this is a game easy to pick up but difficult to master.

The novelty of the desktop setting never wears off. Repeatedly after dozens of races, putting your tiny car between a pencil and a stapler is satisfying. The scale has inbuilt charm and humour and prevents the game from growing old.

Races are short enough duration that losing doesn’t hurt too much. You can instantly restart and use what you just learnt. This tight feedback loop increases improvement and keeps you interested.

Who Should Play Tiny Race

The game is suitable for arcade racing fans who want an alternative to circuit racers. The unique setting and miniature angle adds a different slant to normal racing mechanics.

It is ideal for casual gamers looking for a skill-based challenge not heavy in complexity, or difficult to grasp way. You don’t need to understand racing lines, no brake points. Just drive fast, collect stars, don’t crash.

Both mobile and desktop users will find it accessible. The simple controls work well on any platform and the quick race times suit any sort of timetable.

Ready to Race

Tiny Race doesn’t require long tutorials or difficult systems. You are set on a desktop with rival cars and the instruction is to go. The learning occurs naturally as you race, crash, learn and improve.

No downloads. No instalation. Just miniatures racing action in your browser. So shrink down, fire up your tiny engine and see if you prove you can be the dominant force in the desktop Grand Prix.

The desk is waiting. Can you perform victory in the smallest race you will ever take?