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A racer that fits on one screen
Pico Race is a top-down arcade racer: short races, four controls, up to six cars sharing a single screen, and handling that is easy to pick up and hard to master.
Cars hold on predictably, break away progressively rather than snapping, and stay catchable once they are sideways. Heading and velocity are separate things — the angle between them is the slide.
- Forty circuits Twenty-four Grand Prix layouts built from openly licensed survey data, four invented circuits, and twelve rallycross courses and rally stages.
- Up to four at once Arrows, WASD, IJKL and the numpad, on one keyboard. Touch controls appear by themselves on phones and tablets.
- Time trial with a ghost Your own best lap, drawn as your own car, dimmed. Every lap is measured against the best so far, to the millisecond.
- Championships A calendar, a points table and six teams per class — so every entrant starts and the standings have no spectators in them.
- Online racing Server-authoritative, at a fixed sixty ticks a second, on a race server picked for the grid rather than for the host.
- Everywhere iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and the web, from one codebase.
The driving model
Cars carry the same parameters the original did — Power, Weight, Slowdown, Grip, Air Resistance, Downforce, Sliding and Balance — and Grip and Slowdown are given per surface, on the car, rather than on the track. That is why a rally car and a single-seater feel like different machines the moment they leave the tarmac, instead of both losing the same fraction of the same number.
The physics sub-steps at a fixed 1/240 s and contains no randomness at all, so a rematch replays and a lap time means the same thing on every machine.
Nothing here is anybody else's
Circuits keep their real geography, because a country is not a trade mark and the geometry comes from openly licensed survey data. Every series, team and car name is invented. Pico Race is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any motorsport championship, promoter or sanctioning body.