Tire Friend

Tire Friend is a pretty simple and straightforward 3D platformer at heart.The creator deity Kevin created a brand new world and set it up as a proving grounds, via a series of obstacle courses, for the single living creature that inhabits it. And so, in this g…

Tire Friend has been slimmed down and given a wheel, and now he actually looks like a really real tire.Some in-game and store page things still need to be updated, pending any other tweaks I want to make to his look first.Hub world's been optimized more, too, …

The Hub World has been optimized for performance, and open courses are more clearly shown.The Hub World has also been drastically enhanced with much more to play with!Next up is probably a better way to traverse the Hub World, more optimizations to it, and mor…

Navigate a deceptively simple course filled with blocks somehow hovering in the sky! Many of them rotate, which can throw you off, reveal goodies, or change your bounce angle.There are also some bug fixes, including earning T-Ranks without actually having to m…

Among other things, an arrow appears on the ground while you're bouncy, showing you exactly how you'll bounce. It's a definite improvement. The arrow will also flash if your bounce angle—and speed—would kick you into Overdrive.Also, you can now set the game sp…

What a find! Tirechaeologists have translated the first tablet of Qāt Kēwini—or Hand of Kevin—from its original Tirekkadian! Now, we have some partial insight into how Tire Friend—and the whole of Tire Friend Planet—have come to be! Wow, how exciting!Okay, oka…

The Battery Acid Basin course has been completely rebuilt. From scratch, even. It was long overdue.Either way, you'll brave a rising and falling pool of corrosive acid through quick timing, smooth moves, and some brain stuff, too. Use that Spin Grip off of the…

Most significant is that the Spin Grip move (Hold Jump -> Rev Up -> Touch a wall) has been greatly improved in ways that ought to lead to even more creative movement.When you latch onto a wall, it becomes your new "ground", just as if you climbed onto it from …

Finally, you can rebind controls! Navigate to... well, Controls... in the Options menu. It should handle pretty oddball key/button configurations.The appropriate dialog will pop up whether you're using a gamepad or keyboard/mouse. If there's another way that y…

Previously, save files were tucked away in a menu on the title screen. Now, you'll be able to select one on hitting "Play" instead.There's also a "percentage completion", which is more of an estimate until the game itself is actually 100% complete.Also,Menus a…

The Tire Friend's Twist 'n Tow course has seen a significant upgrade: much more twisting and towing!Also:Lighting has been improved all throughout.You can cancel out of a Quick Dodge with a Double Jump.The Level bubble in the upper right corner grows and shrin…

"SKY-HIGH HAUL", the 20th course so far, has you navigating rockets, explosives, flame, spiked logs, tilting platforms, and more on an airborne frigate.You'll also be able to haul blocks, flamethrowers, and more to make creative use of the airship's floorplan.…

"Bumper-to-Bumper Bouncer" sees Tire Friend using pinball flippers and bumpers to navigate through obstacles in a flashy 2.5D outing—a perfect complement to his already bouncy, speedy, stylish movement. There are more than a few opportunities to chain moves to…

A new course (the 18th so far!), "The Tirebetan Plateau", is now available.It's the most vertically-oriented course in the game. Combine that with a tire that can (a) bounce from and back up to great heights and (b) roll straight up steep walls at high speed, …

The super-low quality option (Options > Graphics and Sound) should be even friendlier to potato computers now. There's also a separate "draw distance" option, which can be set very, very low. These should boost performance.That's not supposed to be a cop-out. …

A couple things.Courses are easier to open in a couple ways:You'll get 6 Golden Hubcaps rather than 4 when completing a Course. (There are now 12 total in each Course, and also you're retroactively awarded the 6 for any Courses you've completed.)Course entry r…

Among those minor improvements are:Some more visual improvements—better tire tracks, scratch marks, kicking up grass and dust, burns, stuff frozen in the snow and covered with grass and dirt, completely retextured terrains, and so on. You can deface a course w…

A bunch of little changes here:Enhanced lighting all throughout!A much more powerful—and much more fun—"Spin Grip" (aka "Wall Roll"), which lets Tire Friend use angular momentum to launch himself right up a wall!New course "themes" to differentiate some of the…

In Pipe Plunger, Tire Friend will... well, plunge through pipes. They scoot and shoot him all over the place. He'll also have to avoid many, many spiky things.*There's another new course that's also technically in the game, but it's impossible to get to at the…