Summer is here, it's super hot, been a very eventful month. Starting with the big one...

Since about December of 2024, I've wanted to add vehicles to the game. I tried using libwheel and a bunch of other solutions, but I could just never figure it out. I tried over and over again, and it took this long to actually get a functioning vehicle base.

You can now buy vehicles from the player owned car shop, and drive it around town. Cars that are not parked when you log off will be impounded and can be released for a fee.

At the moment the vehicles are quite barebones with just fuel, but I plan on adding things like parts damage and upgrades.

You can paint vehicles using a paint gun, changing different colors using buckets. It's an early implementation without many options, but it seems to work quite well and syncs over multiplayer, persisting across sessions.

I ported this paint software from another game I was working on last year, and touched it up a bit. You can paint on it with pixel art and even import images from your computer. Everyone else can see your creations too!

A notification now appears when something happens with one of your bank accounts. All transactions are stored on the backend for future features.

Some (almost all) stackable items now auto merge when you transfer them into your inventory, or buy items. Helps a lot with keeping your inventory tidy.

It's quite simple, really. A few times a day, various items at the wholesalers will be put on a sale. You could make some extra profit by selling these.

I made a sign model for the businesses replacing the placeholder box, and added a couple background images. Makes it look just a little more professional.

You can now automate things just a little bit more. Inventory hopper consumes items into a container it's connected to, and the dispenser takes an input signal and ejects the first item it has.

It's simple, but shows either a an int, float, or a string, auto formatting to its width. Useful for showing values on a slightly larger format.

Graciously approved by the Slay Radio crew, we now have a live radio that plays free music - C64 remixes specifically. It's very hard if not impossible to find other radio stations that you're allowed to play without licensing, please tell me if you know of any.

When doing something the police doesn't like, you now get persistent warning stars, that come back even if you log off. A cop will chase you if they see you!

Seeing the same guy in the hawaii shirt started to get old, so I made citizens and some other NPCs randomized from a few presets. Makes it look less ridiculous with clones walking around.

You can now send images to the Discord bot if you are a trusted user and have your account linked, and your images will appear selectable in-game for easy uploading. Applying images are supported on selected entities.