A nice new track by danort17: the Road Atlanta road course. Cheers, Harm
A great new track by Threepwood: Portimão. Happy racing!
Again three great tracks by aardvark with a lot of loops. These are a bit easier than the previous three: Nutty, Knotty and Naughty. Cheers! Harm
Three great new tracks by aardvark with a lot of loops: Loopy, Mishap and Wreckage. Happy racing! Harm
Rallyman has made two new realistic Brands Hatch tracks: Indy Circuit and GP Circuit. Cheers, Harm
It's been a while since we had a new track. Here is the real-live motorcycle road-race course from Rallyman: Billown Circuit. Happy racing!
You need to have a sharp eye for this one! A new track from Nubby: Magic Eye. Happy racing!
Let's go treasure hunting! A great looking new track from Nubby: Diving for Treasure. Cheers, Harm
A tricky new track from Nubby: Crashy Town. Enjoy, Harm
Well here is something you don't see every day: 16 great new tracks, all thanks to Strava.
Here is the list: Bagen, Bogler, FoxGlen, GP03, GRIndy, LongBeach, Maze2, MoSport, Nov8, RoadAm, RRR, Stagnaro, Strekren, Toronto, Tuscon and WoodsOval.
Happy Racing! Harm
An exciting new track by aardvark: Pawn Star. Enjoy, Harm
A great new track by mxmstn: Track01. Cheers, Harm
Two great new tracks by WiiKiil. One lovely looking track based on the video game Donkey Kong. And one geometric challenge: Triangles Enjoy!
Another nice track by Chicco, after the Canadian F1 circuit: Gilles Villeneuve. Happy racing!
A nice new track by Chicco: PB Circuit. Enjoy, Harm
It's almost Easter, hence this lovely track by Witiches: Easter Bunny. Cheers, Harm
Fun new twisty track by Leonel: Circuito Vector. Enjoy!
Nice new track by charlesalot: Sandy Shores. Happy Racing!
Here is a game similar to Vector Racer called Trackgame. You can play locally or online, and it has an in-game track editor. It still needs a bit more players, so go check it out! :-) Cheers, Harm
Two fun new tracks by aardvark: Winding and Mustard Tour. The last one was inspired by Cluedo. Happy racing!
Another great Super Mario Kart track by Sbeu: Donut Plains 2. And that makes it the 100th track in Vector Racer! Cheers all around!!! :-) Harm.
Small update by Sbeu for Choco Island 2. Needed to reset the track scores because of this. Best regards, Harm.
A interesting new Super Mario Kart inspired track by Sbeu: Choco Island 2. Happy racing!
Two great new tracks by aardvark: Pretzel and Slither. Cheers!
A nice new track by MrDollywaggit: Wavy. Cheers!
Two nice tracks by Amoeba: the Alastaro circuit in Finland and Methane Orbitals for the chemists out there. Happy racing!
More Mario! Koopa Beach 2, made by Ratchael. Happy racing! :-)
The first track of 2014 and it's a nice one: Mario Circuit 3 from the famous Super NES game Super Mario Kart made by Ratchael. Have fun!
It's not quite Christmas yet, but Santa is here! Another great track by witiches. Cheers!
A very interesting and challenging track by witiches: More Bubbles. Enjoy!
The last recovered track, also a nice one by SouthAussie94, the Brno Circuit in the Czech Republic. Have fun!
Second track recovered from my mailbox, another nice track by SouthAussie94, the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit in Australia. Have a good one!
Found a few tracks under a big pile of dust (mails). This is the first one by SouthAussie94, the Phillip Island Circuit in Australia. Happy racing!
Panbubo's F1 series continues with another nice track, the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. Enjoy!
A very nice track by pilotavirtuale, the short version of the Vallelunga Circuit in Italy: Vallelunga Short. Happy racing!
Another great F1 track by panbubo, the Bahrain Circuit. Enjoy!
One more F1 track! Another great track by panbubo, the Shanghai Circuit in China. Have fun!
One more track by panbubo! :-) The Grand Prix Circuit of Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia. Have a good one.
One more great track by panbubo, the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia: Sepang Circuit Malaysia. Happy racing!
Another nice track by panbubo, based on the Laguna Seca racing track in California, USA: Laguna Seca. Have fun!
A great new track by panbubo, after the Brno Circuit in the Czech Republic: Brno. Enjoy!
Here comes another brain teaser from Downloader, revisiting Points: Points Reloaded. Enjoy!
Well this is cool! Witiches and Downloader both achieved record times on all 77 tracks. That's an amazing feat! Congrats to both.
Ken Whitesell has made a quick rise, he's third now with 28 records.
Happy racing!
A nice new track by stealthswor called There and Back. Happy racing!
Another great track by WiiKiil: Pipeline. Enjoy!
Lovely new track by WiiKiil: Pacman. Have Fun!
Great new track by WiiKiil called World Wide Web.
A fun new track by stealthswor: Quad Chase. Enjoy!
Two new fun tracks by WiiKiil: Arcade and Road Crossing. Good luck!
An nice new track by Rocket22 called Sailboat. Enjoy playing!
An interesting new track by WiiKiil called Curvy. Have fun!
Two new challenging tracks by WiiKiil: Choose and Kafooyee. Enjoy! :-)
A nice and simple new track by SpeedRman: Circle.
Last week witiches took over the lead from Downloader on the Vector Racer leaderboard, with 60 records. Congrats! :-)
Vector Racer Puzzles is now also available on Android.
Vector Racer Puzzles combines vector math and turn-based racing into a challenging puzzle game. Play all 54 levels in 2 game modes. Collect all 324 stars to master the game! Play »
A great new track by Amoeba, after the Ahvenisto Race Circuit in Finland: Ahvenisto.
This track is a bit crazy! Based on a former racing circuit in Berlin, made by SouthAussie94: AVUS.
A nice new track by SouthAussie94, based on the Norisring street circuit in Nuremberg: Norisring.
The new United States F1 circuit by SouthAussie94: Circuit of the Americas.
Another challenging track by SouthAussie94: aMAZEing.
A fast and challenging new track by SouthAussie94, after the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst: Mount Panorama.
A great F1 track by Estesark: Silverstone.
Great corner cutting track by Markking: Road Rage.
A nice new track by SouthAussie94: Decisions.
A classic F1 track by SouthAussie94: Adelaide.
When you crash you get just enough penalty points to make sure crashing does not give you an advantage. Or so I thought. It turns out there is a way the get an advantage by crashing.
Here is how it works. When you pass a checkpoint and crash in the same turn, you are set back to your original position with zero speed. Now if you needed to turn back anyway, in some cases you get a one turn advantage.
As far as I can tell only Artezha and Downloader figured this out. Cheers for them for being so inventive! :-) However, I do not think this should be part of the game and as of now you get an extra penalty point when you pass a checkpoint and crash in the same turn. I hope this solves this issue.
As a result of this change, I updated all scores that (purposefully or accidentally) used this trick. One penalty point was added to all these scores. For the top scores this results in these changes: Artezha loses two records (Il Forme and Shortcuts), and Downloader loses one record (Gone in Sixty Seconds).
Harm
I realized today that Twister had a (best possible) solution that involves an unintended shortcut. Normally I would just leave it that way, but in this case I felt it was better to make a small change to the track. That is why I moved the red checkpoint slightly to the right. You can still use the shortcut solution, but it will no longer be the best solution possible.
Unfortunately, this meant that the 53.644 scores of Przemek Poland, Downloader and Petrov were no longer valid. Those scores have been removed. The 53.644 score of SpacemanSpiff still stands, since he obtained the score without the shortcut.
Przemek Poland, Downloader and Petrov, please don't take this too hard. You are some of the best players in the game, and I hope you'll give the track another go. The 53.644 score is beatable!
Harm
Taxi Driver reloaded, here is a great challenging track from Downloader: Taxi Driver 2.
Great F1 track by Mummy: Hockenheim.
Another nice track by RickSpeed: Oulton Park.
A classic F1 track by RickSpeed: Spa Francorchamps.
Quick welcome to all MetaFilter racers. Never had that many visits in a day! :-)
A nifty new track by 256: MetaFilter.
Another great track by Mahaft: Rounds.
A lovely new track by Mahaft: Hearts.
A great new track by HTS: Top Gear Test Track.
A nice new track by Maxud: Two Ways.
One for the weekend. A tricky new track by Downloader: Tricks and Traps.
Two new tracks by ElegantElephant: Long Way and Long Road. And yes, they are long! :-)
A beautiful new track by ElegantElephant: Spring.
Another interesting (and difficult) track by ElegantElephant: Spiral. Tip: you can pass through the walls at certain points.
A great new track by ElegantElephant: Gone in Sixty Seconds.
And another one by Downloader: dots reloaded.
Cool new track by Forme: il forme.
Another interesting track by Downloader: minefields.
A new track by Hudson Papa, Interlagos, after the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo.
Congratulations to Downloader, who just achieved 36 track records on 36 tracks! So can anybody challenge that???
A new track by Dnase, JM Fangio, which is based on the Autodromo Juan Manuel Fangio near Balcarce in Argentina.
Working on a new online AI algorithm in JavaScript for Vector Racer. The video shows a step by step path search on the blast track. To produce this result took less than 2 seconds in Chrome, image generation not included. Still work in progress. Watch the video on Facebook, IndieDB or YouTube.
A brand new track by Daan: mondriaan.
Check out this new track by Robedslv: rio/jacarepagua.
Check out this new track by Skittle: squiggles.
You can now also follow Vector Racer on Facebook.
You can now follow this news through a web feed (atom or rss).
Updated the interface, especially the start page. Check it out.
Who's the best player in the game? Check out the new leaderboard!
Six new user tracks were added the last two weeks :-). Keep up the good work.
Currently working on an online ai generator. Should be very handy when creating new tracks. Coming soon...
Happy holidays!
User track update! Create your own track, import it into the game and play! Submit your track and it will be included in the Vector Racer user tracks.
Starting off with several tracks from Downloader. Many thanks for your help and enthusiasm!
You can now also follow news about Vector Racer at IndieDB.
Vector Racer is now included in Mozilla's Web Applications project as one of the demo apps. :-)
Vector Racer made it to the finals of the Mozilla Labs Game On 2010 competition! :-)
Vector Racer entered the Mozilla Labs Game On 2010 competition.
Happy New Year! Six new tracks to play on: oval, street, u-turn, snake, rack, blast. Enjoy!
Tip for Opera users: the game does work properly in Opera 11!
You can now play against computer players. They can also give you a race demo.
Parts of the game logic were rewritten. For this reason all submitted score were revalidated. Some scores were updated (finish fraction was not correct) and some scores were removed (failed crash detection when passing a wall closely). In any case, everything should work correctly from now on. Sorry for any inconvenience.
The AI players are nearly finished, but they exposed a bug in the game logic, which will take a bit of time to fix properly. AI is coming soon though. I'm also working on some new tracks.
Added 'scores' page, 'how to play' page and 'about' page below the game. Improved keyboard support. Added player selection history.
Added keyboard support.
The first version of Vector Racer is available online.
I'm still working on the following features: scores overview, AI players,
keyboard support, more tracks.
Currently, the game works in all major browsers except in Opera. The Opera browser crashes after some time, and I haven't yet been able to find out why. Suggestions are welcome at harm@harmboschloo.com.