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about 2 years ago

Hi guys, I am aware of the issues the site has been having the past couple of weeks. I'm in the process of hiring someone to help me out with the backend.

The next thing I've been working on is adding non-playable characters to the level editor. You'll be able to pose and joint various pre-made characters in your levels. I'll also release a fla for the character so I will be able to take user submissions (really good ones). They will all have the same behavior, so there's no need for me to do additional programming. With this you could make things like a bus full of destructable people, a bunch of trapeze artists, or a bridge made out of people.

Ok that's it. Be sure to like the facebook page for smaller, less interesting updates. I guess I should use my twitter, but I hate twitter (a bit more than facebook).

HI
about 2 years ago

Uh, hey. In a less spectacular update, I have uploaded a few small changes. You can now add text in the editor. Currently the only fonts available are the ones that were already used in the game. Shapes now have a smaller minimum size, so things can be a tad more detailed. You can also change their level of transparency. Mixed with the "foreground" option you should be able to make some cool stuff. Don't overdo it too much... text and transparency both render slower than normal stuff.

I'm also happy to announce that Physx is the first official site moderator. There should be less spam, as I sure wasn't deleting it all myself. I chose him because he asked, and was never a dick in the forums, and is more than half of my age.

I also promised I'd link to this chatroom. Some friendly popular users show up there. I was there once. Nobody believed it was me until I showed them this old fighting game I was making. Fake me shows up there a lot.

The next thing I will do is design a goddamn T-shirt. Then I would like to add non-playable characters into the level editor. In my head, I think they would work out really well.

In other news, I saw this gif the other day and I was in tears for minutes on multiple occasions. I must have watched it 200 times by now. Why was this man so confident until impact? How did a man of this age survive this long with that particular mindset?

oh
about 2 years ago

I updated with a harpoon gun last night. It took entirely too long to make, but I am happy with how it works. Don't go too nuts with it. I may add in an option that will make it a bit less accurate in predicting where to fire. I'd like to make a quick video of it, so if anyone happens to see a horribly gruesome or funny replay involving the harpoon gun, please link to it in the comments.

Besides that, I made it so the moped couple rotates slightly faster. It's not much, but just enough that it will be easier to flip yourself over again if you are upside down. I also added a "foreground" option to groups. This will allow you to make items that will appear over the player character. You can already see an example of it in Ironhead's level, Viking Revenge 3.

After a couple weeks, I gave up on trying to find decent moped sounds and attempting to make something appropriate sounding with what I had. In order to get something correct, I may have to have my friend Jason record them on his actual moped.

Most of my recent time was spent less on this update and more on fixing the broken backend of the site. During mid-December it was at it's worst, but it should be much better now. I wanted to have t-shirts up and Santa in the game by Christmas, but there was too much other bullshit to deal with. I was going to go with cafepress, but I've heard the cheaper shirts can be low quality... and I now may have a connection with someone who could help me out.

Just so all youse guys know, I read everything and am not abandoning anyone. I will be hiring a friend or two to help me deal with shit. HAPPY NEW YEARS, and I won't wait a month before news posts again.

beh
about 2 years ago

So, last week with Thanksgiving and all I didn't get too much done. I'll be more effective this week.

I have to put in new sounds for the guy and girl moped characters. As far as voices go, I figure I could ask you guys for some help. Here's an example of a set of character voices that I currently use for the girl and the fat lady. If you realistically feel you can do decent voice acting (really just screams and groans), please send over your own version of those wavs in a zip to totaljerkface at gmail.com. This could be for future characters as well. I am aware that I will get a lot of terrible submissions, but I know some of you guys are capable.

It seems the majority of people don't want me to change irresponsible dad. I might make another version of him so there would be a choice. As for the moped character, I like how it is now (more skill oriented)... but I could see how it works if you can at least slowly lean while standing still.

We are getting used to the new server. Sean made a lot of adjustments and continues to do so. We no longer seem to have hosting problems though, so most likely any problems will end up being our fault. The way I have the mysql databases setup isn't the most efficient, so if anyone is a mysql nerd... I wouldn't mind going over some things.

Would anyone buy happy wheels t-shirts?

*if you are a dude... please do not send me sounds of you doing a female voice. also, compare with the quality of your own voice with the sounds i've provided, and if they are much much worse... do not send them to me.

WER IS CARECTOR?!
about 2 years ago

Uhhh... here is character. I spent the last 2 days trying to put in appropriate engine sounds, and I was not happy with the results. So... I will try again next week. I figured it would anger less people to release the character without engine sounds than not at all. Also, I am currently using segway guy and fat lady voices.

So the moped couple is kind of like irresponsible dad, but there are some differences. You have limited boost with spacebar, and you brake with ctrl. You can eject the girl with shift and the guy with z. If you manage to just tap z, you'll eject the guy, but the girl will still hold onto him. Also, unlike dad, you can reattach the guy to the bike after ejecting.

I might change irresponsible dad so there is less cheating in levels made for him. I only made him rotate so quickly so you'd be able to ollie without a jump button. Now I might make him control more like the new character, and make spacebar a jump button.

I'll ramble on about some other stuff once the engine sounds are in. If you've been angry at me and expressing it on my site, I haven't seen it yet. I have a lot of emails and stuff to look at.