SPUR: Draw Your Race

You draw the line. The car drives it. SPUR is a racing game with exactly one input: a finger on the glass. Before the lights, you trace your racing line over the circuit — and the speed you draw at becomes the speed you drive at. Quick down the straight, slow into the corner. Then the race plays itself out, and you watch what your hand decided. THE CAR DOES NOT BRAKE FOR YOU That is the whole mechanic and the whole challenge. Ask a corner for more than the grip allows and your line lights up red while you are still drawing it — and afterwards the car visibly runs wide of it. Hold one steady pace all the way round and you lose about a tenth of the lap without it ever looking like a mistake. After every race the game tells you where the time went: which stretch, how many seconds, and whether you were too fast there or too slow. THIRTEEN CIRCUITS THAT ARE REALLY DIFFERENT No circuit is a…