More parameters!

Changelog:

• Removed debug messages in the terminal
• Fixed fast spinning from v0.1.2-alpha
• Changed the name of car.json to settings.json (the file lives in _internal/assets)
• Changed the key for the type of car, from "car" to "CAR"
• Added 2 new keys
  • "FPS"
  • "MUSIC_VOLUME"
• You can change the "FPS" to anything from 1 to 2000
• You can change the "MUSIC_VOLUME" to anything from 0.0 to 1.0, with 1.0 being the highest

Installation process:

Windows:

• Install the .zip file
• Extract the .zip file to a folder of your liking
• Double click the .exe file.

Linux:

• Install the pixel-wheel-linux.tar.gz
• Extract the contents of pixel-wheel-linux.tar.gz
• Double click on the pixel-wheel file or open it from the terminal:

  $ ./pixel-wheel

From Source

• Clone the games repository locally. And clone the Tleng Game engine Locally

  $ git clone https://www.github.com/Omada-Plhroforikis-17o-GEL-13o-GYM/pixel-wheel.git
  $ git clone https://www.github.com/tl-ecosystem/tleng.git

• Create a symbolic link inside pixel-wheel from the tleng repo:

  $ ln -r -s ./tleng/tleng2 ./pixel-wheel/src

• Change to the game directory

  $ cd pixel-wheel

• Create a virtual python enviroment and then activate it:

  $ python -m venv venv

  • linux

  $ source ./venv/bin/activate

  • Windows

  $ .\venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

• Download the requirements:

  Using pip:

  $ pip install -r requirements.txt

  Using your package manager manually (apt, dnf, pacman ...):

  $ sudo 'your-package-manager' install pygame3-'your-package'

• Run the game.

  $ python main.py

Linux Support

This Release aims to bring:

• Support for Linux Systems (to stop the need to run the game through wine or from source)
• Independent Framerate (code change, the game will stay fixed at 60 fps for now)
• New technique to create the binaries (using venv to reduce unnecessary bloat)

Nothing special changed yet. This release I want to test how good is the support for Linux.

Installation process:

Windows:

• Install the .zip file
• Extract the .zip file to a folder of your liking
• Double click the .exe file.

Linux:

• Install the pixel-wheel-linux.tar.gz
• Extract the contents of pixel-wheel-linux.tar.gz
• Double click on the pixel-wheel file or open it from the terminal:

  $ ./pixel-wheel

From Source

• Clone the games repository locally. And clone the Tleng Game engine Locally

  $ git clone https://www.github.com/Omada-Plhroforikis-17o-GEL-13o-GYM/pixel-wheel.git
  $ git clone https://www.github.com/tl-ecosystem/tleng.git

• Create a symbolic link inside pixel-wheel from the tleng repo:

  $ ln -r -s ./tleng/tleng2 ./pixel-wheel/src

• Change to the game directory

  $ cd pixel-wheel

• Create a virtual python enviroment and then activate it:

  $ python -m venv venv

  • linux

  $ source ./venv/bin/activate

  • Windows

  $ .\venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

• Download the requirements:

  Using pip:

  $ pip install -r requirements.txt

  Using your package manager manually (apt, dnf, pacman ...):

  $ sudo 'your-package-manager' install pygame3-'your-package'

• Run the game.

  $ python main.py

Known bug:

• It is not a bug, but the angular speed has been increased. Will be fixed in next release.

PixelWheel 0.1.1-alpha Release Version

New PixelWheel release. v0.1.1-alpha

Yes we know, only a day has passed and yet we changed something.

Changelog:

• You can change the car you have. Step by step instruction below.
• Better hitboxes with the map.
• Removed unnecessary junk from the assets

How to change the car:

• Go to assets/ (the assets/ directory is in _internal/ if you are on windows)

• Find car.json

• Open it with the text editor of your choice (an IDE is kinda overkill)

• In "car" change the "RED" to something from this list.

  • "RED"
  • "BLUE"
  • "GREEN"
  • "YELLOW"
  • "formula"
  • "formula2"

  And if you are silly, you can change to this:

  • "ROTONTA"
  • "LEFKOS"
  • "buildings"

Controls:

Controls for the alpha build are:

• WASD to move
  • WS Is acceleration and de-acceleration
  • AD is turning
• Esc to go back to the menu

Windows

• Install the .zip file
• Extract the .zip file to a folder of your liking
• Double click the .exe file.

Linux

• Using Wine:

  • Follow Windows How-To.

• From Source:

  • Clone the repository locally.

    $ git clone https://www.github.com/Omada-Plhroforikis-17o-GEL-13o-GYM/pixel-wheel.git

  • Change to the game directory

    $ cd pixel-wheel

  • Download the requirements (delete if you have the pygame library and not pygame-ce)

    Using pip:

    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
    

    Using your package manager manually (apt, dnf, pacman ...):

    $ sudo 'your-package-manager' install pygame3-'your-package'

  • Run the game.

    $ python main.py

Alpha Build of PixelWheel

Download:

• Install the .zip
• extract it
• run the .exe file

Controls:

Controls for the alpha build are:

• WASD to move
  • WS Is acceleration and de-acceleration
  • AD is turning
• Esc to go back to the menu

Description

This release is in no way finished, there are a lot of bugs and unoptimized code. Though we are proud to release this version as it has it's foundation almost finished.