Happy Wheels on Steam
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Choose your inadequately prepared racer, and disregard severe consequences in your desperate pursuit of short-lived victory.

The classic flash game Happy Wheels is now available to purchase on Steam. Ahhh, nostalgia. Nice to see this game will live forever.

  • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    16 days ago

    So, what is is it? The web version + a web browser shoved onto Steam? The flash version and flash player shoved onto Steam (like “Transformice”)? The mobile version?

    The system requirements say “Any GPU with WebGL” which sounds like it’s the fucking web browser one, although the actual game uses a 2D canvas and not WebGL I am pretty sure.

    EDIT: yup it’s a browser. For a free to play browser game.

    Directory listing from BTDigg:

    • chrome_100_percent.pak 702.79 KB
    • chrome_200_percent.pak 1.21 MB
    • d3dcompiler_47.dll 4.52 MB
    • dxcompiler.dll 24.55 MB
    • dxil.dll 1.44 MB
    • ffmpeg.dll 2.97 MB
    • Happy Wheels.exe 234.94 MB
    • icudtl.dat 10.37 MB
    • LICENSE.electron.txt 1.07 KB
    • LICENSES.chromium.html 19.52 MB
    • …
      • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        0·
        16 days ago

        You waste a few hundred megs of disk storage and a few gigs of RAM to get the same shit as https://totaljerkface.com/happy_wheels.tjf but with achievements.

        Was about to mention the Flash version at happy_wheels_flash.tjf but they broke it. Ran fine at least last year, I tried it.

        The only good thing I see here is offline support, although someone could code it as a userscript using “service workers”. I know the totaljerkface won’t, because money. If you really want, you could just open the Newgrounds demo (featuring the Flash exclusive “Green hills” level) in desktop Ruffle. You will get bored of it after a bit but if you get a few dozen more Flash games it’s fine. Oh, and the actual Newgrounds page for it has controller support, it says so in the sidebar. One of the things advertised on Steam is controller support, so I guess that’s nothing new as well… On Newgrounds it’s not analog, but I don’t see why anyone wouldn’t be using a dpad here anyway.

        • popcar2@piefed.caOPEnglish
          1·
          16 days ago

          So what? Why are you acting like it’s a great scam or grand conspiracy? It is the web game - now on Steam. It wasn’t advertised as anything more than just a version of the web game you can play for a few dollars. Are you upset it’s bundling Electron instead of the game being re-written in Assembly for maximum optimization? It’s a very simple game that runs on everything. But thanks for the cynical breakdown of the technology used, I guess.