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Take The Wheels! is a fresh, brand new take on the arcade racing genre! Using asymmetric thrust to pilot your hovercar (think rowing a boat, but with rockets!) race across a variety of worlds, from luscious forests to searing deserts. Play online or with your friends in this exciting take on racing!

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Sep 30, 2025

Hear ye! Hear ye!

A brand new track for the Take The Wheels! demo has just dropped, and just in time for the Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) Steam event!

"MedievalDay2" is a short, approx. 45 second track created for Pixel Expo 3 weeks ago, and as this track was the most popular of the weekend, I decided to feature it in the latest demo update! It also has the same Steam Leaderboard integration as all the other tracks, so go and set some blisteringly fast time!

There are also a few other improvements to go along with this update (mostly improvements with performance for the particles and changes to the "ready up" state for the game) and more reliable viewing of the online leaderboards in the menu.

Other than this update (and some new artwork) there has been some more "behind the scenes" work going on in the background (that isn't quite ready for reveal juuust yet) but there are more and more tracks being developed each day (both short, 30 second tracks and longer, over 2 minute tracks!) as well as more and more features! (I had plenty of "power up" item suggestions given to me at Pixel Expo, so some of those may be coming in the future! A few also floated the idea of making the car even faster!)

So keep setting those fast times! (and yes, there isn't many times currently set, but it just means you get to hold the world record for longer!)

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Some nice features (and a performance boost)

Feb 27, 2025

Hello! It has been a while.

I realised I never included an update log for updates 1.09 and 1.10 (and today 1.10.1) so here is what has changed with those updates!

Update 1.09

Fixed seam in track
- This was caused by the shadow of the track, and so shadows have been disabled for certain parts of the track and should be less noticeable
Lighting changes made to all tracks
- Lighting is now less harsh/bright to make the environment pop out more, but the track is still visible
Changed hover effect
- Should have less of a performance hit now and is now simplified
Added a new player model to the interior of the car
- The car is no longer being driven by a ghost
Fixed leaderboards not updating when changing level
Fixed the incorrect count for total leaderboard entries
World best times now shown on the level select
Removed old main menu theme from playing
Added new speed indicator
- This indicator can be flipped to either side depending on preference

Update 1.10

Added pop-up for when off-road for too long to tell you how to reset the car to the previous
checkpoint
Improved performance for shadows
Changed RHI from directx12 to directx11
- This should help with shadow performance and there was other issues with directx12
- This has meant that lighting has needed to be rebuilt
- Updated car model
  - This new car model has a similar look to the older one, but with less of a performance hit (the game can now run stably at 60fps on a Steam Deck with shadows enabled)
Update 1.10.1
- Fixed replay pause menu creating multiple copies of itself when the pause key was pressed several times
- Fixed world best times not showing correctly in the level select menu (it only showed after changing the selected level)
- Added more variety to tree colouration for Forest_Run
Right now I am hard at work getting all the multiplayer side of the game working as when it was last tested (over 1.5 years ago!) it worked fine (mostly), however a lot has changed over that time so testing is needed to ensure it still works (don't worry, split-screen still works! That was tested at a local playtesting event 4 months ago and the game underwent fixes).

As well as creating new and exciting racetracks (with layout and "feel" being the first thing I typically design and test before going with a visual theme) there is plenty more to show off with Take The Wheels! in the future. As of writing, there are currently 14 tracks with layouts done and of those 14, 8 have partially completed visual decoration! (although because I am primarily a programmer, visually it will have a long way to come!). A few tracks that were created for the build of the game over 3 years ago are also being re-designed for the current movement for the car (the car was originally much grippier and less engaging to drive).

Otherwise, it has been amazing seeing so many times being set in the game (as of writing this, there are 98 times set currently across all tracks) and feedback of the game has been amazing to receive!

Thank you all very much!

Take The Wheels!

Update 1.09

Dec 7, 2024

Hello!

Forgot to post this when it went live, but here are the patch notes for update 1.09!

Fixed seam in track
Lighting changes made to all tracks
Changed hover effect
- Should have less of a performance hit now and is now simplified
Added a new player model to the interior of the car
Fixed leaderboards not updating when changing level
Fixed the incorrect count for total leaderboard entries
World best times now shown on the level select
Removed old main menu theme from playing

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