Mobile controls: touch setup, assist options and troubleshooting
On a phone or tablet, Slipline Garage shows a steering pad in one bottom corner and three pedals — Gas, Brake and HB (handbrake) — in the other. All of them work at the same time, so you can steer, accelerate and pull the handbrake together. Landscape orientation is recommended; portrait works.
The layout
| Control | Where | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| Steering pad | Bottom left | Touch and drag left or right. Steering is proportional to how far from the centre your thumb is |
| Gas | Bottom right, tall pedal | Hold to accelerate |
| Brake | Bottom right, lower | Hold to brake; from a stop it reverses |
| HB | Bottom right, upper | Hold for the handbrake |
| Recover, mute, pause | Top right | Tap |
The middle of the screen and the road ahead stay clear. Speed and status move up out of the way of your thumbs.
Four settings worth knowing
Open Pause → Settings.
Steering sensitivity (Controls). From 50% to 180%. Higher means a shorter thumb movement reaches full lock. If the car feels twitchy, lower it. If you run out of pad before the car turns enough, raise it.
Left-handed layout (Controls). Swaps the sides: pedals on the left, steering on the right.
Auto-throttle (Controls). The car accelerates by itself at about 80% throttle. You steer, and hold Brake or HB when you want to slow down or start a slide. This removes one thumb’s worth of work and is a good way to learn steering first.
Stability assist (Assists and access). Adds yaw damping and stronger self-centring so slides are easier to catch. Assisted personal bests are stored in their own list, and medals count either way — turning it on is not a penalty.
Drifting with thumbs
The technique is the same as in the how to drift guide, with one difference that works in your favour: touch steering is analogue. You can hold a quarter of the lock steadily, which a keyboard cannot do.
- Hold Gas until you are above 50 km/h.
- Drag the steering pad toward the corner.
- Tap HB briefly with the same thumb that is on Gas — slide it up, tap, slide back.
- Bring the steering thumb back toward the centre, or lift it entirely. The wheels self-align into the slide.
- Feather Gas to hold the angle.
Troubleshooting
The page scrolls or zooms while I drive. The game area blocks scrolling and pinch-zoom only on itself. If the page moves, your thumb started outside the game area. Use the fullscreen option in the pause menu if your browser offers it, or scroll so the game fills the screen.
A pedal seems stuck on. It should not be possible: every interruption — a notification, a call, switching apps, rotating the phone — releases all controls and pauses the run. If it happens, pause and resume; then please tell us the device and browser.
The controls cover the road. Rotate to landscape. In portrait the camera pulls back and up to compensate, but landscape gives a wider view of the corner.
The frame rate is low. Set Graphics → Quality to Low. See the performance settings guide. Quality never changes how the car handles.
There is no sound. Mobile browsers only allow audio after you touch the page, and the phone’s silent switch can mute web audio. Tap any button once, check the speaker icon at the top of the game, and check the hardware mute switch.
My progress disappeared. Progress lives in that one browser on that one device. Private browsing, clearing site data, or switching browsers starts fresh. Export a backup if it matters.
What has and has not been tested
The touch controls are built on standard Pointer Events with a separate pointer for each control, and they were exercised in desktop browser touch emulation during development. They have not yet been verified across a range of physical phones and tablets. If something does not work on your device, the contact page is the fastest way to get it fixed.
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