Tire Friend News

A smorgasbord update.

• Improved lighting all throughout. Everywhere.
  
• Significantly reduced the game's file size, something like 20% in the full version.
  
• Snazzified the courses' Finish Lines.
  
• Reworked a few models, such as the Spike Strips and a couple of the hats.
  
• Reworked parts of Asphalt Hill and Dusty Gears levels.
  
• More stats on the hub and course UIs, especially to do with the challenges (Options > Gameplay > Challenges).
  
• Bug fixes, including to Revving Up and polling for the "safe position" (where your tire returns on dropping into a pit).
  

Please let me know what you think. I'd really like feedback on performance: has it improved? Has it... done the opposite?

And, in any case—as always, happy tiring!

This Thanksgiving, set sail for the new (hub) world! A giant play area for your second-favorite tire!

It's a work in progress and will necessarily need updates as I add levels. But I'm aiming to make the hub world much more of a playground -- and a place to showcase the tire's moves -- just as a hub world ought to be. It's also much more interconnected and consolidated.

You can bounce around, practice your jumping and rolling, speed up hills, take rides on claws, knock down cones and barrels, and.. fire chairs from a launcher.

Other updates include quite a few reworked models, under-the-hood optimizations, and rearranged level order.

The game's also on sale, so buy several discounted copies for all of your friends. Treat your loved ones to some tires, just in time for Black Friday!

Happy tiring!

A couple new items:

• A festive new hat, just in time for Thanksgiving!
  
• Graphical improvements, especially to the tire person himself.
  
• Camera improvements. Zoom out even farther or closer!
  
• Bug fixes.
  

Happy Tiring!

Hats look better without that odd transparency bug. Hopefully. Let me know if you see it again, though.

New hat for full version havers, too. And slight level tweaks and other bug fixes for all.

Happy tiring!

If you have the full version, make your way to Options > Paint to adorn your Tire Friend with a traffic cone, a garbage can lid, and (two) more!

More later, though.

Another level's coming soon.

Happy tiring!