Furlong Traffic Racer

Furlong is a stretch of road from a market town to the coast, driven at dusk: four lanes of commuters heading out, a wet two-way road through the hedges after rain, and the junctions at the edge of town as the street lamps come on. The clock is the only rival, and the only way to feed it is to pass close.

Traffic racer in 3D: drag to weave through highway traffic and pass cars close to win seconds on a clock that never stops. Three roads.

Drag anywhere on the screen. Where your finger is from left to right is where the car is on the road, and how high it is sets the speed: near the bottom is 60 km/h, near the top 190 km/h. Let go and the car keeps its line and speed. On a keyboard the left and right arrows steer and the up and down arrows change the speed. The clock starts at 32 seconds (42 at the junctions) and runs down all the time. Pass a car with less than about a metre between your sides and you win a second; every close pass in a row raises the Close multiplier up to x1.5. A wider pass, up to about two metres, wins less than half a second and resets the multiplier, and so does a crash. A checkpoint every 400 metres adds three seconds. A crash costs three seconds and slows you right down. The light on the road ahead of your car is exactly your width: a car inside it lights its brake lamps, and you will hit it if you hold your line. On the dual carriageway, roadworks turn the left lane into an oncoming lane for 700 metres every 2 km; a close pass there pays two seconds, and so does one in the oncoming lanes of the two-way road; at the junctions a close pass between crossing cars on a red light pays two seconds too. The run ends when the clock reaches zero.