OpenWheels v0.3.0

Downloads

• Windows: OpenWheels-windows.zip, unzip and run OpenWheels.exe.
• Android: OpenWheels-release.apk, installs over v0.2.x (same signing key).
• Linux, macOS, iOS: build from source, see docs/DESKTOP.md and docs/IOS.md.

New

• Linux, macOS and iOS. Native Linux (x86_64) and macOS builds (tools/fetch_engine.sh,
  tools/build.sh) and an iOS app (Xcode project from tools/build.sh --ios; game files bundled
  or copied onto the device with Finder). See docs/DESKTOP.md and
  docs/IOS.md.
• Restored character campaigns. Lawnmower Man, Explorer Guy, Santa Claus, Irresponsible Mom and
  Helicopter Man each get a chapter of six new levels made for OpenWheels, with their own
  main-menu portraits (rendered from your own copy of the browser game, or from the already
  generated sprites).
• Re-grab your vehicle. After ejecting, grab your own vehicle and you climb back on and keep
  riding, as often as you like, with all 11 characters (QOL "re-grab vehicle", on by default).
• A real PC port. The window is resizable, starts maximized and goes fullscreen (F11) at the
  monitor's resolution with no black bars at any aspect ratio. The mobile touch buttons are hidden
  on PC (QOL "touch controls"); key hints replace the tutorial arrows and label the restart
  button; held keys carry over when the controls change (hold Space through an eject to grab);
  Esc and R work right after a death.
• Browser physics for online levels. Browser levels step like the Flash game: one 1/30 s step
  per frame, its iterations and contact solver (no block solver). Balances, stacks, "don't move"
  levels and joint stiffness behave as in the browser, and browser replays are re-simulated one
  input per step (QOL "browser physics", on by default).
• Online levels: change character on levels that force one (QOL "any character"), NEXT plays
  the next level of the browser list, and leaving a level returns to the browser or Your Levels.

Fixed

• Missing scenery everywhere: every static polygon and art shape (trees, roots, cliffs,
  windows, walls...) was drawn far off-screen. The swamp level alone lost 262 shapes.
• Neon / outline levels showed black: shape outlines are drawn, outline-only shapes are kept,
  concave polygons draw with their real outline, circle cutouts work, and polygons whose
  triangulation fails get a fallback fill instead of vanishing.
• Vehicle miniguns didn't fire: arrow guns on user-built vehicles fire straight on Space; every
  fixture of a vehicle's handle can be grabbed; Space reaches user vehicles in every layout.
• Random "death" with no controls on deep browser and user levels: the fall-off check now
  follows the level's geometry instead of a fixed height.
• Your chosen character is no longer replaced by a level's forced character; stale browser-level
  state no longer leaks into character select.
• Timers and per-step values of the restored vehicles, browser items, particles and passengers
  follow the physics step.

Legal

OpenWheels is an unofficial fan project. Happy Wheels and its assets belong to Fancy Force / Jim Bonacci. See NOTICE.md.