Mini Motorways News

We’re so excited to introduce the newest update to Mini Motorways: Challenge City! This update features an all-new game mode, complete with handcrafted challenges for all twelve maps, each with its own unique features and geography in mind. If you’ve been searching for a new way to test your skills, now’s the time to go for a joyride and master each city’s set of challenges! This new game mode includes custom modifiers, achievements, and separate leaderboards.

In addition to the first new gameplay mode, this update to Mini Motorways also includes:

• Updates to our leaderboards! Our current leaderboards have been revamped to now include histogram graphics which show where your score places among others who have played each map. While Challenges, Surrounding Scores, and Friends leaderboards remain unchanged, we have removed the Global Top Ten display for our normal maps but they will still be available on the Daily and Weekly Challenge.
  
• Improvements to controller support. If you play with a controller, you’ll be prompted to replay the tutorial if you’d like to see the changes.
  
• New and improved colourblind options, including a colour picker that allows you to select preferred colours.
  
• The return of our Seasonal Holiday photo frames in Photo Mode!
  
• Some tweaks to performance and input for Steam Deck.
  
• New achievements for Challenge Mode.
  
• Several bug fixes, including…
  
  • Games freezing/locking at the End of Week screen. If you were seeing your screen grey out after selecting an upgrade, that should be resolved now.
    
  • Issue where the game would sometimes render a black screen with loading icon.
    
  • A handful of car stalling bugs.
    
  • Improvements to various spawning issues such as boxed-in houses and notifications for disconnected buildings.
    

2021 has been a huge year for us, and we are so grateful to all of you for helping make it that way. We’ll be continuing to develop new maps, new features, and more updates for Mini Motorways all year long through 2022.

For now, we can’t wait to see how you tackle these new challenges and we’ll see you down the road!

The Hometown Update included a minor bug which caused the Daily Challenge for the 30th of November to be impossible to play. We have fixed this challenge so it is now playable again.

The Hometown Update included a minor bug which caused the Daily Challenge for the 17th of October to be impossible to play. We have fixed this challenge so it is now playable again.

[h2]Re-posted patch notes from the Hometown Update for reference:[/h2]

Take a trip to our hometown and build the streets of Aotearoa New Zealand’s capital city! This update to Mini Motorways includes:

• A brand new map to explore! You can now recreate our hometown of Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand) and try your hand at building an efficient road network in one of the world’s windiest cities.
  
• Autosaves! Your games will save automatically at the end of every week
  
• Several bug fixes! We’ve resolved several issues including stalling cars, crashes, and issues with some of the daily challenges.
  

We hope you enjoy exploring our local roads and visiting the city that homes Dinosaur Polo Club. Kia ora!

It’s all in the name, folks! We’re so excited to take you on a tour of our very own hometown, the capital city of New Zealand: Wellington! Te Whanganui a Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand) is the home to all of our dinos and is where Mini Motorways was created. We can’t wait to see how you recreate our city! If you look close enough, you might even be able to spot our studio, located in the heart of Wellington’s arts district on Cuba St.

This update features:

• A new map! Wellington, New Zealand.
  
• Improved autosaving.
  
• Improved the way that the game submits scores to the leaderboards. If a score fails to submit, the game will attempt to resubmit the next time it can. Prevents scores from being “lost” if your device loses connection.
  
• The game will automatically save when the end-of-week screen appears.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented any upgrades from showing on the end-of-week screen on some challenges. This fixes the bug where it was possible to get to an end-of-week screen with no update choices while playing certain Daily and Weekly Challenges.
  
• Fixed an issue with traffic lights at busy destinations that prevented cars from leaving.
  
• Refactored the list of Daily and Weekly Challenges to remove "problem challenges" where upgrades and maps would result in games that ended very soon due to lack of bridges/motorways/etc.
  
• Additional bugfixes, UI improvements, and performance improvements.
  
• Updated to the latest version of Unity engine.
  

We're already hard at work on our next update and we can't wait to end 2021 on a high note! Thanks so much for continuing to play and enjoy Mini Motorways. Enjoy Wellington!

Take a trip to our hometown and build the streets of Aotearoa New Zealand’s capital city! This update to Mini Motorways includes:

• A brand new map to explore! You can now recreate our hometown of Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand) and try your hand at building an efficient road network in one of the world’s windiest cities.
  
• Autosaves! Your games will save automatically at the end of every week
  
• Several bug fixes! We’ve resolved several issues including stalling cars, crashes, and issues with some of the daily challenges.
  

We hope you enjoy exploring our local roads and visiting the city that homes Dinosaur Polo Club. Kia ora!