Paradise
Everything with a view of the water. Pools, palms, a yacht club with a dress code and a country club with a waiting list. The valet will take your keys. Count them afterwards.
Paloma Visitors Bureau
Paloma Visitors BureauEst. 1990
Arrive in style.
Leave in somebody else's.
Welcome to Paloma, California's most relaxed city. We have the sunshine, the coastline and the nightlife, and a police department that is second to none in enthusiasm. However long you planned to stay, you will stay longer.
The Streets
The real Paloma. Markets, motels by the week, the Galleria and the hottest slice in town. Full of character. Several of them are looking for you.
Industry
Across the tracks: freight, scrap and the port. Industry is not on the tour. Residents ask that you do not ask.
Visitor information
- Getting around
- Taxis, two bus lines, and whatever is parked nearby. Most visitors find driving the easiest way to see the city. Any car will do.
- On the dial
- HOT 97.1, WAVE 104 and RADIO X: three stations and nothing but hits. They sound best with the windows down and somewhere to be.
- Staying in touch
- Paloma Paging covers the whole city. You need not give anybody your number. They have it.
- Law and order
- The Paloma Police respond promptly and in numbers. Helicopter tours are not offered, but are sometimes provided.
- Work
- Honest work is always available. Ask at Pizza Slut on Depot Street. Own car preferred.
The Paloma Visitors Bureau accepts no responsibility for vehicles, valuables or visitors. Paloma is not a real place.
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Maps
Paloma
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Joyride
Read Me
Hotwire
Hotwire is a top-down arcade driving game in the manner of the first Grand Theft Auto, set in Paloma: a California beach city in a 1990s of its own.
You are new in town, with a motel room, a tired car and a job delivering pizza. What you do after that is up to you.
- Take any car. Motorbikes, limos, buses, a fire truck with a working hose. Each drives differently and some do more than drive.
- Run from the police. They escalate: cruisers, a spike strip, a helicopter, and a tank you can take for yourself.
- Do what you like. A living city by day and by night, with people who have somewhere to be and something to say about your driving.
- Your music. The car radio plays your own songs, as stations.
- Two ways to play. Story, where money comes from work. Arcade, where mayhem is the score.
Hotwire is in development. The first thing you will be able to play is a free demo.
Hotwire is made by Matt MacPherson.
Demo Disk
The Hotwire demo is not ready yet.
It will be a free download: one file, no account and no launcher.
Settings
For Music and the startup chime.
Volume
Clock
Most browsers allow no sound until something has been pressed, so the chime is often not heard on a first visit.
Starting up
Paloma Desktop 1.0Paloma Visitors Bureau, est. 1990
As the system: night when your computer is set to dark.
Light
Wallpaper
Slices of pizza, with wings, and a Pizza Slut car or two.
Screen saver
Start after
Press Kit
Hotwire
Hotwire is a top-down arcade driving game in the manner of the first Grand Theft Auto, set in Paloma: a California beach city in a 1990s of its own.
- Developer
- Matt MacPherson
- Genre
- Top-down arcade driving in an open city
- Setting
- Paloma, California: three districts and 45 neighbourhoods
- Modes
- Story, where money comes from work. Arcade, where mayhem is the score.
- Players
- One
- Engine
- Godot
- Demo
- Free. One file, no account and no launcher. Date to be announced.
- Full game
- To be announced
What you do
- Take any car. Motorbikes, limos, buses, a fire truck with a working hose. Each drives differently and some do more than drive.
- Run from the police. They escalate: cruisers, a spike strip, a helicopter, and a tank you can take for yourself.
- Do what you like. A living city by day and by night, with people who have somewhere to be and something to say about your driving.
- Your music. The car radio plays your own songs, as stations.
- Two ways to play. Story, where money comes from work. Arcade, where mayhem is the score.
To take away
Hotwire Press Kit.zipEverything below, in one
Hotwire Fact Sheet.txtThis page, as text
Hotwire Title Art.jpgThe picture with the name on it- Hotwire Screenshot 1 (The Beach).jpgThe Beach
- Hotwire Screenshot 2 (Pier Plaza).jpgPier Plaza
- Hotwire Screenshot 3 (The Harbor).jpgThe Harbor
- Hotwire Screenshot 4 (Paloma Hills).jpgPaloma Hills
- Hotwire Screenshot 5 (The Flats).jpgThe Flats
- Hotwire Screenshot 6 (North Street).jpgNorth Street
- Hotwire Screenshot 7 (After Dark).jpgAfter Dark
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Contact
Matt MacPherson:
On X: x.com/itsmattmac
You may use the pictures in this kit in writing and video about Hotwire.
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Contact
To
Matt MacPherson
Send opens your own mail program with this written in it. Nothing is sent from this page.
Or find Matt on X: @itsmattmac
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