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

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[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

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
  • ...
[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] popcar2@piefed.ca 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes 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.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Hope the performance is better.

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

Sounds like it is not, see my other comment.

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

tried it yesterday on my deck, didn't notice any performance issues. has there been?

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The web version is notorious for abysmal load times, if a level loads at all.
https://totaljerkface.com/happy_wheels.tjf

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago
[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 16 hours ago

We're so back. Can't wait to see a new influx of community maps!

[–] AgentSeven@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

Huh, never saw this before. Happy Tree Friends vibes.

[–] GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

It is the original menu 35 second .ogg from 2010 (SuperPretzel.ogg). It is showing "featured levels", I don't know when that was finalized but probably around that time.