Independent project

Rush Hour: Drive Faster

Unity Game Developer · Shipped - live on Google Play

Highway driving and racing simulator with selectable cars, upgrades, realistic physics, and four traffic modes.

Unity
C#
Realistic Car Controller
Android
Blender

A driving game built around realistic car physics only holds up if traffic and mode variety actually change how you have to drive — otherwise a “realistic car controller” is just a tech demo with no game wrapped around it.

What I built

Rush Hour: Drive Faster — a highway driving and racing simulator in Unity, built on a realistic car-controller kit with selectable cars and upgrades (nitrous, engine, wheels). Four distinct modes force different driving behavior out of the same controller and traffic system: a bomb mode that fails if you drop below a threshold speed, one-way and two-way traffic modes with correspondingly different collision risk, and a casual free-play mode. Blender-built assets sit alongside Asset Store content for the vehicle and environment art.

Screenshots

Car selection screen showing a red muscle car with speed and handling bars, paint swatches, and upgrade tabs — Car selection with paint, engine, wheel, and nitrous upgrades.

Main menu with an orange sports car parked on a city street and Select Car and Quick Play buttons — Main menu and garage.

Daytime gameplay: a car on a multi-lane city highway with score, speed, and distance readouts — Big City stage - score, speed, and distance drive the run.

Night-time gameplay: a car on a neon-lit highway with speed and distance readouts — Night City stage.

Screenshots from the Google Play listing.

Outcome

A complete driving simulator shipped to Google Play with four distinct traffic modes built around one realistic car-controller and physics system. It has passed 1K+ downloads and is still maintained - the most recent pass rebuilt it on Unity 6.2 against Google Play’s current target-SDK requirements, years after first release.