CydandClaude Fable 5 467934c968 RP412: fork from RP411 — Steam + internet-multiplayer line
Consumer port of Red Planet: sellable on Steam, internet multiplayer,
playable without cockpit hardware. Adds the project README and
docs/RP412-ROADMAP.md covering the three workstreams (vRIO-derived
input/display, TeslaConsole-derived session UI, Steamworks networking)
and the Steam logistics assessment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-12 11:08:48 -05:00

Red Planet 4.12

Red Planet is the VWE pod-racing game built on the in-house MUNGA engine (Win32 / DirectX 9, MUNGA_L4 platform layer). The 4.12 line is the consumer port: a version of Red Planet that can be sold on Steam and played over internet multiplayer, without cockpit-pod hardware.

Forked from RP411 (the arcade/cockpit 4.11 line) with full history preserved.

Goals

  1. Steam distribution — Steamworks integration, SteamPipe builds, store-ready packaging.
  2. Internet multiplayer — take the engine's LAN-era WinSock networking online (NAT traversal, matchmaking, latency tolerance).
  3. No cockpit required — keyboard / mouse / gamepad input and on-screen replacements for the pod's RIO panel and plasma display, drawing on vRIO.
  4. Self-hosted sessions — in-game race setup/join replacing the operator-driven TeslaConsole flow.

See docs/RP412-ROADMAP.md for the plan and the Steam-multiplayer logistics.

Building

Unchanged from 4.11 for now — see BUILD.md (VS 2005/2008 + DirectX SDK June 2010, Release|Win32, output Release\rpl4opt.exe). Toolchain modernization is a roadmap item.

Repo Role
RP411 Upstream arcade source (this repo's base)
VRIO Virtual RIO panel + vPLASMA display — input bindings and display emulation to fold in
TeslaSuite TeslaConsole / Launcher / vPOD — the arcade session-control stack 4.12 replaces (and a reference for the Munga control protocol, TCP 1501)
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