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submitted 15 hours ago by popcar2@piefed.ca to c/games@lemmy.world

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 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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
  • ...
[-] popcar2@piefed.ca 1 points 31 minutes ago

Why is this a problem?

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 47 minutes ago
[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

Hope the performance is better.

[-] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

Sounds like it is not, see my other comment.

[-] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 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 10 hours ago
[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] AgentSeven@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 5 points 14 hours ago
[-] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour 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.

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