- About this game
- System Requirements
- Game controls and Hints
- Troubleshooting and Q&A
- Contacts & Support

About this game
Hey, many thanks for downloading Savage Wheels.
Savage Wheels is a 2D car crashing arcade game, where up to 4 vehicles take part in a deadly tournament.The goal is to eliminate the other derby contestants. Player may choose from a variety of vehicles, each with it's unique characteristics: speed,acceleration,armor,damage and driver. Players can collect various bonuses to increase their speed and damage or to fix their car. All drivers have their background stories, which are uncovered in the campaign mode. Gameplay modes includes a campaign, hot-seat mode between two players or melee mode where other vehicles are controlled by fearsome game AI ;-).

System Requirements
Savage Wheels will need at least:
Windows XP/Vista or
Linux with X11 and SDL installed
200MHz CPU or better ;)
32MB RAM
Video Card able to display 640x480x16bit
Sound Card
2-Button Mouse
Keyboard
As you may see the requirements are as low as they can get ;)

Game controls and Hints

Player 1 keys:
    arrow keys to move

           UP (accelerate up)
    LEFT (turn left)   RIGHT (turn right)
          DOWN (back gear)

    INSERT - place landmine (if available)
    BACKSPACE - initiate self destruction
    DELETE - car honk
| Player 2 keys:
    	  R (accelerate up)
      D (turn left)   G (turn right)
            F (back gear)

    T (key)- place landmine (if available)
    V (key) - initiate self destruction
    Q (key) - car honk

The ingame keys are also configurable within the bindings.xml file in the game folder.
You can change the terrain by pressing F5.
During the game you can also turn on/off change the music with the F4 key.
To turn on/off the shadows use F9 key.
(Linux Only) To toggle on/off fullscreen mode use the F11 key.

| The blue bar is your armour(hitpoints) indicator. When it falls below half its size your vehicle will look smashed. The red bar is your anger indicator. The more anger you get the more damage your vehicle will do. The white numbers are your frags.

Some hints, facts & rules:
- Any inactive (not moving) vehicle is to be destroyed within 10 seconds. No frags will be taken.
- If you self destruct, you will loose a frag.
- Landmines are pretty useful if there's an enemy behind your back.
- You will not suffer any damage if you run over a landmine you put..
- To do full damage hit enemies with your highest speed.
- If you hit an enemy at low speed you will not do your full 'anger' damage.
  When you run over a bug you will get a bonus. A good hint is to always
  run for a frag or anger giving bug. Below is a table describing the bonuses.

  | +1 frag.
  | Gives anger.
  | Repairs your vehicle.
  | Speeds up your vehicle.
  | Gives +3 Landmines.

  Troubleshooting and Q&A
  1. Game sound does not work on Linux.
  Due to a common problem on Linux systems by default the game tries to initialize it's sound via ALSA driver. Try to start the game with a command line parameter -snd_alsa instead.
  2. The game always starts in a window.
  To force the game to start in fullscreen use the -force-fullscreen command line parameter.
  3. On Linux I get an error message ./savagewheels: error while loading shared libraries: XXX.so
  Either the FMod Ex shared object library or the SDL graphics library were not found. Run the game with the run.sh bash script. If this does not help you will need to install the FMod Ex and SDL libraries.
  4. The game crashes every time I start it.
  Try to start the game with software video mode using savagewheels.exe -sw.
  On Linux make sure the required shared object libraries are installed and locatable. Check if a library is missing by using the command:
  $ ldd savagewheels
  If that doesn't work ... Well. That's bad karma! ;)
  Check the debug.html log file in your game folder for some additional error messages. Report the problem with as much details as possible on the issues page.

  Contact & Support

  Official page: | Savage Wheels
  Please report bugs or errors on the | Issues page |
  KenamicK Entertainment: | www.kenamick.com

  Savage Wheels is powered by:
  FMOD Sound System, copyright © Firelight Technologies Pty, Ltd., 1994-2012.

  © 2003-2013 KenamicK Entertainment
  MIT LICENSE