“We have dozens of unique, beautiful tracks with great physics that are really pushing the limits of what the iPhone can do. That’s out motto for this game,” says Lak. To remain true to the classics, the team has also incorporated four-player local multiplayer. Individual car characteristics are upgradable, including grip, top-speed, acceleration, and nitro, with specific cars favoring certain upgrades. The game spans a variety of richly detailed locations, and each of its four different vehicles has its own handling characteristics, including Sports, Hatch, Big-Rig and Pick Up (the sports car hugs the road, the hatch allows for drifting, etc). Unlike its forebears, however, it’s designed for iPhone, iPad and Android, and built entirely in 3D. Like the aforementioned inspirations, Mini Motor Racing is an isometric, top down racer punctuated by tight turns, dirty tracks and liberal use of nitros. The developers had been wanting to work on a project like Mini Motor Racing for a long time, and that time finally came when it wrapped up work on its first game, the 2010 iOS shoot-‘em-up, Assault Squadron.

“ thought it was time someone paid those fantastic games homage by recreating the excitement and fun that they did back in the day when we were kids.

“We’re all huge fans of retro racers like Super Off Road and RC Pro Am,” says Binary Mill director Ingmar Lak, referring back to the late 1980s arcade racers that so many of us grew up with. Take, for instance, The Binary Mill’s newest mobile project, Mini Motor Racing. It’s often the driving force behind videogame development, and with the ubiquity and convenience of mobile devices in our always-connected modern day lives, the desire to revive classic ideas for contemporary hardware is particularly acute.

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