Augmented Reality Top-Down Racing Game Now Available For iPhone
by Mike Lata
June 29, 2011
A new top-down arcade game, Paper Racer, is available for the iPhone. The game has a great art style with paper-like visuals and offers some augmented reality integration as well.
The game uses a customization system that allows players to import a wide variety of vehicles into the game and race with them. The way to create and import these vehicles is by drawing them on a piece of paper and using the iPhone's camera to snap a photo of them.
The visual style is very charming and everything in the game is made out of paper. This even includes the on-screen controls consisting of two pedals and arrows to control movement. The backgrounds are so detailed that you can see the stains on the tracks as if someone spilled a drink there.
Paper Racer offers 16 courses to race through, physics-based collisions, and online rankings among its list of features. You can even share the cars you create on Facebook and Twitter.
Paper Racer is currently available on the App Store for $.99.