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Abstract Urban Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (UVANET) provides non-safety applications like media sharing, Internet service, file transfer, gaming, and so on. To provide better services to the users in UVANET, routing plays an important role. In this paper, a novel routing protocol is proposed for UVANET to support the non-safety applications. We have considered a non-safety application where the drivers and passengers of different parking lots can play multi-player games with each other. To play the games smoothly, the game data should reach the destination in a minimum time. Simulation results show that, when the density of the vehicles in the city area is high, then the proposed protocol fulfills the end-to-end delay tolerance of 100 ms. At last, an experimental work is performed to validate the proposed routing protocol by running a simple puzzle game in a UVANET prototype designed in an indoor laboratory environment and outdoor environment.