Stonewheel: 90s Skate Life

It's the 90s. There are ten Slamjamboree Legends wrestling figures, and Chad Bradley's dad is already buying three of everything.

Stonewheel is a life sim on the outside and a skate game on the inside. Live your days in town: school, chores, allowance, the corner store, the arcade. Then grab your board and skate sick lines across six spots to earn cred, win contests and hunt down every figure.

Features

• 50 named tricks: kickflips, heelflips, impossibles, varials, double and triple flips, 9 grabs, 12 grinds and slides (the darkslide family too), and manuals to stitch it all into one line
• You learn tricks from the town: buy Rat a cola, beat Vex's score challenges, trade with Spike, out-score the arcade Wizard, even Chad teaches you slides once you beat him
• Six skate spots: the suburbs, the schoolyard, a muddy construction site, the drainage canals, the mall after hours and the old SLAMCO toy factory
• Ten figures, ten different ways to get them: shelf finds, secret areas, contests, a three-way trade chain, an arcade high score, mail-order, a rival showdown, a timed mall run, pure domestic discipline and one golden finale
• A day and week clock, random daily events, energy, cred and heat (Officer Doug is watching)
• An in-game trick book with every input on 5 pages, and an EASY TRICKS assist that is on by default
• A CRT filter, chiptune music and synth sound, all made in code
• Keyboard or gamepad
• No ads. No in-app purchases.

Controls (keyboard)

• Town: arrows walk, X hops on or off the board, Up uses doors and people, F opens your figures, Enter advances talk, Backspace closes menus
• Skating: Left/Right push, Down crouches, Space ollies (hold for higher), X + a direction flips, C + a direction grabs, B opens the trick book, Q ends a session
• Esc pauses. F2 toggles the CRT filter, F3 the music. F11 toggles fullscreen in the desktop build.

Try it first: the browser demo on this page plays the first four days (Monday to Thursday). Going to bed on Thursday night ends the demo. The full game has no limit.

Linux: unzip and run stonewheel.sh.

Credits

• Pixel art: LimeZu (limezu.itch.io), Modern Exteriors, Modern Interiors and Character Generator
• Music and sound: made in code
• Desktop runtime: Electron (MIT)