G+ Games Poly Track ✦ Limited Time

If you never experienced it, "Poly Track" wasn't a game itself. It was a vibe ; a structural quirk of the platform that accidentally birthed a golden age of tabletop and indie gaming discussion. To understand what we lost, you have to understand how Google+ worked differently from Facebook.

It felt like a proof-of-concept for the "kiosk racer." The physics were floaty but responsive. It captured the pure, distilled joy of racing: go fast, turn left (and right), don't hit the wall. g+ games poly track

Today, the G+ Games Poly Track is a graveyard of broken links and deleted profiles. But its ghost haunts modern social gaming in three ways: If you never experienced it, "Poly Track" wasn't