To play Car Town, create a free account at cartown.fbgamesweb.com, close the welcome windows and follow the tutorial with your neighbor Rusty: you do a first job at your station, collect your pay, paint a car any color and run a practice race. This guide goes through each step in order, explains what is on the screen and lists the slips beginners make most often.
Keep the game open in another tab and follow this guide step by step, starting with your free account.
Buy cars, paint them any color, put them to work in your garage and race your neighbors in friendly reflex races, in this classic Facebook car game.
In beta: some parts of the original game are missing and you may run into bugs.
Open cartown.fbgamesweb.com and use the sign-up form. Pick a username of 3 to 24 characters (letters, numbers, dots, hyphens and underscores) and a password of 8 or more characters. The email is optional. There is nothing to download, and Facebook is not involved at any point.
The account is yours alone: your progress is saved on the server and tied to your own Car Town account. Starting from your old Facebook game is not possible, because progress from it is not imported.
Right after you sign up and enter, a few welcome windows appear one after another. First comes a magazine page saying Welcome to Car Town!, then a Garage Value window announcing your first title, Flimsy Garage, then an event notice and finally the Daily Bonus. Close each one with the X or the OK button.
The Daily Bonus hands you a reward in blue points, and a strip of eight days shows Today, Tomorrow and Day 3 to Day 8. The game adds an extra bonus for each consecutive day, so logging in daily pays off.
Rusty is a neighbor who is already on your list. He greets you and explains that this is your garage, where you can do jobs and decorate it however you like.
From there the tutorial walks you through the real loop. Customers queue in front of your garage; you click one to see what they need, start the job at your station and return when it is finished to collect. It then moves on to a customer on the street, the card of a car, Customize and paint, a practice race against another neighbor called Axel, the customization of your avatar and, to finish, your missions and the GPS button.
Take the tutorial all the way through. It is the quickest way to learn the controls, and it ends by pointing you at the missions.
At the top left you find the LEVEL meter, with the garage value bar beneath it, and beside it your coins and your credits, which the game also calls blue points. At the top right is the fuel indicator, which reads Full. Friendly races need no fuel.
Along the bottom runs the bar with My Garage, Edit Garage, Buy Cars and Glove Box, together with your neighbor list, where Rusty and your own garage are already waiting. On the right are the buttons for friendly races and neighbors. On the left, two goal icons with a NEW GOAL! sign lead to your missions.
Buttons in the corners control the photo (Picture), sound, music, quality, full screen and zoom.
A job is a task with a timer. Some are done at your station, the lift, and others with a car. You start it, do something else, and come back once it finishes: nothing is paid until you return and collect.
Click a car to open its panel. Under Customize, Picture and Sell you get four activities. Friendly Racing is a free challenge. Road Trip is a long trip where you earn for each passenger. Car Show is a long contest with a prize for first place. Deliver Pizza is a short job.
Do not leave a job at your station waiting for too long: one left for more than twice its duration is spoiled and the work is lost. Collect first when you come back.
Open Buy Cars, browse or search by name and click a car to see it in the showroom. Compare its class, its performance score and the experience you gain, then press Buy. A few cars warn about maker restrictions, for example that you cannot add tinted windows.
To paint it, click the car, choose Customize and open Paint & Graphics. Pick any color on the palette, or type its RGB values or hex code, and the car changes on screen. Confirm the purchase with your coins and press Done. Painting also earns experience.
The cars and customization guide covers every tab of the editor.
Click a car and choose Friendly Racing, or use the races button on the right. The window lists your neighbors with a GO! button, an Invite Friends! box and a Practice button for training without a rival. Start with Practice: nobody is waiting for you.
Click Start to light the signals. Wait on yellow and click the green button the moment it turns green. Then shift gears three times, as close as you can to the green line without passing it. Your score appears at the end, and you can press Practice again or Exit.
The racing guide has the complete rules and some ideas for scoring higher.
The usual slips are small. Some players forget to collect a finished job, or leave a job at their station so long that it spoils. Others press the green button too early and get a foul, or go past the green line when shifting and end up with a negative score.
Another one concerns neighbors: the Neighbors panel warns that changes show up when you reload the game, so reload after sending or accepting a request before you assume nothing happened.
If the game is slow to appear or stays blank at first, read the no-Flash guide before giving up.
Three steps and you're in.
From this home page. Each game opens at its own address, with its own start screen.
A quick sign-up inside the game. Your progress is saved on the server, not in your browser.
You play in your browser, with no Flash and no downloads, on a computer and, depending on the game, on your phone too.
Create a free account at cartown.fbgamesweb.com and follow the tutorial. In Car Town you click customers to see what they need, start jobs at your station, collect your pay, buy and paint cars, and race neighbors in reflex races. Your level rises as you earn experience, and each level unlocks more of the shop.
Use the sign-up form at cartown.fbgamesweb.com. You need a username of 3 to 24 characters and a password of 8 or more characters; the email is optional. Car Town does not use Facebook, so you never enter a Facebook password, and there is nothing to download.
It is a reward window that appears when you log in. In Car Town it shows a strip of eight days, from Today and Tomorrow to Day 8, and gives an extra bonus for each consecutive day you log in. It pays in blue points, and you close it with the OK button.
Rusty is a neighbor who is already on your list when you start Car Town. He welcomes you, explains that your garage is where you do jobs and decorate, and leads the tutorial. Another neighbor, Axel, appears later with a racing challenge for your practice race.
Follow your missions: the NEW GOAL! icons on the left show them. In Car Town, keep serving customers at your station, buy your next car in Buy Cars, paint and upgrade it in Customize and try Friendly Racing again. Every level you gain opens more cars, parts and decoration objects.
Click the car, press Customize and open the Paint & Graphics tab. Choose any color from the palette, or type its R, G, B values or a hex code. The car updates as you pick, and Car Town asks you to confirm the purchase with coins. Press Done to close the editor.
Click a car and choose Friendly Racing, or use the races button on the right. The window lists neighbors with a GO! button and a Practice button to train alone. Press Start, wait on yellow, press green when it appears and shift three times near the green line.
Car Town greets a new account with a short series of welcome windows, and the Daily Bonus is one of them. They are announcements, not errors, and each one closes with the X or the OK button. The tutorial with Rusty takes place in your garage.
A job finishes on its own, but you must come back to collect it. If a job at your station sits for more than twice its duration, it is spoiled and you lose it. In Car Town the safest habit is to collect your finished jobs as soon as you come back to the game.
Brand notice: Car Town is an original game by Cie Games. Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc. FB Games is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cie Games, Facebook or Meta. This is a browser edition, in beta.
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