Pixel Wheels

Devlog

• Upcoming new feature: leagues!
  October 10, 2024 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  I am working on adding difficulty levels to the game. The idea is to add something like Mario Kart 50cc, 100cc, 150cc (and 200cc since Mario Kart 8) engine classes. I expect this feature will make the... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels 0.26.0 is out!
  September 11, 2024 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Pixel Wheels 0.26.0 is finally here. Here is a summary of the major changes. New track: “The Island” The “Pix Cities” championship has its third track. This track is called “The Island” an... Continue reading

  
• New version of Pixel Wheels about to land...
  September 07, 2024 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Quick update, I am busy preparing a new version of Pixel Wheels, should be there this month 🤞... Continue reading

  
• February 2024 update, smoke!
  March 06, 2024 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  For this February status update, I want to show the work I have been doing on Pixel Wheels “hit effect”. The “hit effect” is what happens when a vehicle is hit by a gun bullet, a missile, or t... Continue reading

  
• January 2024 update, Pixel Wheels new track
  February 06, 2024 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  This month I finished Pixel Wheels new track: “The island”. The track starts with a tight right turn around a tower. Then you drive in front of an old fortified entrance: Turn around another tower... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels 0.25.0 released!
  August 31, 2023 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Finally, after way too long, here is version 0.25.0 of Pixel Wheels! Let’s see what’s in the box. Split-screen multi-player This has been requested for a long time. Pixel Wheels multi-player suppo... Continue reading

  
• Working on a new car
  June 10, 2023 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Working on a new car for Pixel Wheels! It’s an old 60s F1. Initial version was inspired from the Lotus 33: Tires were too wide, so I introduced thin tires: I liked the visible engine, but when playi... Continue reading

  
• More progress on split-screen revival
  April 25, 2023 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Showing more players I am making good progress so far. As I said before, the game engine is now capable of showing 4 players: It also now shows a thin black line between player screens to improve read... Continue reading

  
• Progress on split-screen revival
  April 14, 2023 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Pixel Wheels split-screen mode is mostly back!... Continue reading

  
• No network play after all
  April 04, 2023 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  I have been experimenting with adding network play to Pixel Wheels, but it’s a Pandora box that I eventually decided not to open. The reason for this decision is that I want Pixel Wheels 1.0 to be o... Continue reading
• Pixel Wheels 0.24.2 released!
  February 05, 2023 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  This new version brings 3 new translations: Hungarian, thanks to Balázs Úr! Esperanto, thanks to Jorge Maldonado Ventura! Turkish, thanks to nxjosephofficial! It also fixes 2 bugs: In championships... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels now speaks Hungarian!
  December 30, 2022 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Pixel Wheels now speaks Hungarian! Interestingly, the language list got too long for the screen. I had to make it a two column list!... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels 0.24.1 released!
  December 15, 2022 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  A few bugs managed to sneak in Pixel Wheels 0.24.0, nasty creatures… version 0.24.1 fixes them. The stretched display bug The most reported one is #296 : when the display does not have a 16:9 ratio... Continue reading
• Pixel Wheels 0.24.0 released!
  November 27, 2022 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Pixel Wheels 0.24.0 is out! Just like 0.23.0, this version adds a new track and a new vehicle. New track This time, it’s the “Square Mountains” championship which got a new track: “Up, up, up... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels 0.23.0 released!
  July 10, 2022 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Pixel Wheels 0.23.0 is out! This version brings quite a few goodies. Let’s have a look at the main changes. New track First, the “Country Life” championship got a new track: “Flood”. As its... Continue reading

  
• Championship icons
  May 18, 2022 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  In the next version of Pixel Wheels, championships have their own icon instead of using the icon of their first track. The icon also shows up on the championship finished screen. I hope you like this... Continue reading

  
• Improved vehicle selector
  May 04, 2022 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  The work I started on custom tire sizes won’t make it in 0.23.0, but I backported some related work on the vehicle selector. The new selector gives more room to the vehicles. I hope you find it more... Continue reading

  
• Mac testers wanted
  April 29, 2022 by Aurélien Gâteau#testing, #macos, #libgdx

  I am in the process of updating the version of libgdx, the game library used to build Pixel Wheels. The changes are done and libgdx has been updated from 1.9.11 to 1.9.14 (There is an 1.10.0 version b... Continue reading
• New car! Introducing the Miramar
  April 21, 2022 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  The next version of Pixel Wheels (0.23.0) is going to feature a new car: the Miramar. I am switching gears (ahah) and decided not to add a big-tires vehicle to 0.23.0 because it requires more work on... Continue reading

  
• New track progress, and big tires!
  April 10, 2022 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Flood track I merged in the first version of the Flood track, making the Country championship the first one to be composed of three tracks. New vehicle I started to work on a new vehicle and decided t... Continue reading

  
• Upcoming new track
  March 27, 2022 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  This week Pixel Wheels got a new track: Flood! It still needs some minor improvements but it’s already playable. You can try it from the master builds if you want an early preview on it. Let me know... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels is now available on Flathub
  February 20, 2022 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  If you are a Linux user, you might be interested in getting Pixel Wheels as a Flatpak package. If so, I am happy to let you know you can install Pixel Wheels from Flathub now!... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels 0.22.0 released, translation galore!
  January 30, 2022 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  More translations! First Pixel Wheels release of 2022 is out, and this one brings in some serious translation work! While 0.21.0 was available in 2 languages: English and French, version 0.22.0 bump t... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels 0.21.0 released!
  October 11, 2021 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  I can’t believe it’s been 3 months since Pixel Wheels 0.20.0 release! I am going to blame, in no particular order, holidays, changing job, and some hard-to-track bugs :) “Parlez-vous Français?... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels log exporter
  September 09, 2021 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Wrote an article on my blog about the upcoming log exporter feature I recently added to understand the long standing Android-specific bug #119 . The bug is now fixed, and I am glad it is, but the log... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels featured on GitHub blog!
  August 27, 2021 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Pixel Wheels got featured on GitHub blog today, in their 30 free and open source Linux games – part 2 article. Quite cool!... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels is now translatable!
  August 26, 2021 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  The next version of Pixel Wheels is translatable. For now only French and English are supported, but hopefully more translations will follow 🤞! If you are interested in the details of making the ga... Continue reading

  
• Could use some help with bug 119
  August 15, 2021 by Aurélien Gâteau#debug

  Hi fellow pilots! For the past few weeks I have been trying to reproduce a bug reported by multiple Android users: when you finish a championship, sometimes the “Next” button does nothing ( Bug #... Continue reading
• Pixel Wheels 0.20.0 released!
  July 02, 2021 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  So 0.19.0 was supposed to be the last version before 1.0.0, then it was 0.19.1, but here comes 0.20.0! You might be wondering what’s wrong with me… What happened is I started piling in bug fixes a... Continue reading

  
• New record animation
  May 15, 2021 by Aurélien Gâteau#wip

  Been working this week on the screens which show up when you finish a race. When you break one of your personal records, there used to be a dedicated screen to let you know, but I felt this was confus... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels 0.19.1 released!
  April 19, 2021 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  In the previous devlog update I announced version 0.19.0 would be the last before 1.0.0, but Google Play started to reject the game because it linked to my support page , so I had to get a 0.19.1 vers... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels 0.19.0 released!
  February 27, 2021 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  Pixel Wheels 0.19.0 is out! This is the first release of 2021, and it might be the last 0.x.0 release: the game is a bit light on content (12 vehicles, 6 tracks, 3 championships) but I want to “fini... Continue reading

  
• Pixel Wheels gets a soundtrack!
  January 18, 2021 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  #music

  I spent quite some time on https://opengameart.org last weeks looking for some nice music for Pixel Wheels, and found some great pieces by FoxSynergy . I ended up using 5 of them: one for the menu, on... Continue reading
• Pixel Wheels 0.18.0 released!
  December 27, 2020 by Aurélien Gâteau

  New stuff New track: “River”. Now all championships have 2 tracks! Android TV support. Added “Total time” column to “championship finished” screens. Changed Do not show points in quick rac... Continue reading
• New track and Android TV support!
  November 29, 2020 by Aurélien Gâteau

  River track I created a new track called River to complete the “Country life” championship. Working on this track I made some improvements to the country tileset: it now uses the EDG32 palette I k... Continue reading
• Pixel Wheels 0.17.0 released!
  August 28, 2020 by Aurélien Gâteau

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  New stuff New vehicle: the Jeep! “About” tab to the configuration screen. Changed Lot of work on the graphics: darker roads, new trees, new city roofs, textured sidewalks, nicer bridge borders, ro... Continue reading