Attention! Traffic Jam in the Notebook! HAH! Welcome to a digital world where traffic lights, cars, human willpower, and sometimes completely nonsensical decisions all collide. Your job in this game is to control the roads, manage traffic flow, and prevent chaos. With just a few button presses, you can consider yourself the unofficial Minister of Traffic. Be careful, though — the position is unpaid (this is not a capitalist horror game).

The main goal of the game is to manage traffic, switch the lights at the right time, and prevent cars from crashing into each other. Red means stop. Green means go. Yellow means time to make a decision in real life, but in the game, it’s a little reminder to reconsider your next move. Your job is simply to help the white cars navigate the roads safely. To do that, you need to monitor the traffic lights, keep an eye on moving vehicles, and make the right decisions at the right time. The game also takes car behavior into account. When our cars have to wait too long, things get messy. Quick reactions help, but rushing doesn’t always lead to success. Sometimes it’s better to wait a few seconds, assess the situation, make an in-game purchase, and then decide what to do.

This game wasn’t made by a giant corporation, a whole team of programmers, or an army of engineers who drink free coffee at the office every day. So please don’t break my heart over my sense of humor.

License and penalty system

Your driver’s license has 12 stars, and each star shows one penalty point. Crashes don’t go unpunished: every mistake on the road is written onto your license. The stars fill in one by one as the white cars crash. When a crash happens, 1 penalty point is written to your license. But if the cause is not your mistake but your negligence, the penalty is heavier. For example, if the white cars wait for your command for a long time and finally head out on their own and crash, 2 penalty points are written to your license. Don’t make the cars wait too long. The stars fill in two colors. Stars 1 to 9 are yellow, which is the warning stage. Stars 10, 11 and 12 fill in red. If you have reached red, you have a problem. Penalty points are saved on the device and are not erased even if you close the game. You can check your penalties at any time. Just tap the license button, and you will see all the stars and how many penalties you have. Penalties don’t stay forever, and you can erase them. The first way is to play ROAD001 again. Each time you complete ROAD001, 1 star is erased from your license. The second way is to tap the TV on the business card and watch an ad. When you watch the ad, 3 penalty points are erased. Both ways are meant to reduce your penalty, but the best way is not to crash. Players who made an in-app purchase erase 4 points when they complete ROAD001 again. The most important rule is the limit. If your penalty reaches 12 points, your progress will be reset and you will have to start over. So be careful, don’t make the white cars wait too long, and judge the situation well before you send them out.