The racing game people play on squared paper, built on SDL2. Your car has a velocity: every turn it moves by that velocity, and before it moves you may adjust each component by one cell — no more. The straight line it sweeps has to stay on the road. That is the whole game, and it is all about carrying speed into a corner you can still get out of.
Clip a wall and the car stops on the last piece of road it reached, loses all of its speed AND its next turn, and leaves a scorch mark in your colour. That last part matters: without it the barrier is just a free handbrake. Zero crashes is a perfect run, and the game says so.
Three ways to play:
Five circuits across five map themes — mown grass, an island in a turquoise sea, red desert, snow over a frozen lake, and basalt with lava running through it — drawn as solid terrain with kerbed roads and scattered scenery.
There is an in-game circuit designer too: shape the racing line by dragging control points and the road follows at the width you choose, with a brush for touch-ups and forty levels of undo. It checks as you draw and will not hand the game a circuit it cannot race.
Plays entirely with the mouse or entirely with the keyboard. No image, font or audio assets ship — every shape and every sound is generated at runtime.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap can be installed on elementary OS from the command line. Open Terminal from the Applications launcher and type the following:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install Vector Race, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install vector-race
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