Racer – fragherrnmaurer

Four open strings, four lanes. Racer is a racing game you steer with your instrument. Play the G string and the car moves to the far left. Play the E string and it moves to the far right. The app listens through the microphone and recognizes which string is sounding — there are no other controls. THE JOURNEY The track does not stay the same. You start in meadowland among fields, cows and farmhouses. Then a tunnel takes you into the jungle, where elephants stand at the roadside and macaws cross the sky. Beyond the jungle it turns dry: in the desert, dromedaries stand by Bedouin tents and mud-brick houses, pyramids rise on the horizon — and now and then a sandstorm blows in. After that the road leads into the sea: the water rises slowly past the camera and you drive on across the sandy bottom, past a sunken temple and shoals of fish. A snow landscape follows, with snowmen and piste…