Wira Bandar PC
Build a Malaysian city and the public transport it runs on: bus contracts, BRT, rush hours, councils, elections and a federal government.
It's a fork of OpenTTD, the free transport game: OpenTTD's code with changes, free software under the GNU GPL v2.
Free · 64-bit Windows · plays your OpenTTD saves and add-ons
Wira Bandar PC (a fork of OpenTTD)
The name
Wira Bandar means "town hero": wira is Malay for hero, bandar for town. The hero is whoever makes a town work for the people who live there, and in this game that's you.
The goal
Build a city that moves people, not just cars, where the buses come on time, the air stays clean and every kampung can grow into a city worth living in.
From the bus stop to the planner's desk
Our apps answer the rider's question: when is my bus coming? Behind that question sit harder ones. Who pays for the route? Why does the bus crawl through town at five o'clock? Why does one city get a BRT and another a new highway?
Wira Bandar PC lets you answer them yourself. It takes OpenTTD, a transport game with more than twenty years of work by its community, and adds the cities and the politics of Malaysia and Singapore: town councils and their budgets, commuters who drive or ride, contracts from towns' transit authorities, and voters who judge the service they get.
Play the real playbook
Ideas from Malaysian and Singaporean transit, turned into game rules.
Bus contracts and free lines
Towns invite tenders for your bus lines, like Singapore's Bus Contracting Model and BAS.MY: bid, run the line for five years and get paid by the departure. Some lines are free to ride, like Penang's CAT, and towns give their residents free passes, like Pas Mutiara, and pay you for them.
Priority for buses
Paint bus lanes for all day or the peak hours, give buses their own signals at traffic lights, and build a kerbed busway or an elevated one with stations on the viaduct, Sunway style. Every line gets a BRT score.
Towns that grow up
Kampung houses and shophouses give way to terrace houses, HDB-style blocks, condominiums and glass towers. Councils move up from Majlis Daerah to Majlis Perbandaran and Majlis Bandaraya, and run their estates like Singapore’s town councils.
Voters who ride the bus
States elect their governments every five years, on the service voters get: traffic, transit, the air, city services, housing and taxes. Carry enough commuters and Transit First wins, and its grants fund more contracts. If it wins parliament too, the federal government pays half of every monthly pass, like My50, and its five-year plan, like the Rancangan Malaysia, pays companies to build metro and BRT lines.
Straight from the game
Real screenshots and gameplay, with the free OpenGFX graphics.
Wira Bandar PC (a fork of OpenTTD)
Wira Bandar PC (a fork of OpenTTD)
Wira Bandar PC (a fork of OpenTTD)
Wira Bandar PC (a fork of OpenTTD)
Wira Bandar PC (a fork of OpenTTD)
Wira Bandar PC (a fork of OpenTTD)
Wira Bandar PC (a fork of OpenTTD)What's in it
Each part has its own guide, with step-by-step tutorials.
Start in five minutes
- 1Download the zip (about 14 MB) and unzip it anywhere.
- 2Run wirabandar.exe. The program isn’t code-signed, so Windows may say it protected your PC: choose More info, then Run anyway.
- 3It keeps its settings and saves in Documents\Wira Bandar, copies them from OpenTTD the first time, and still finds the graphics, NewGRFs and AIs you installed for OpenTTD.
- 4Say yes to the tutorial the game offers the first time: it shows you, step by step, how to start a game and build your first bus line. The guide’s first tutorial takes the same steps with screenshots, up to the town’s transit authority.
Questions
Is it free?
Yes. Like OpenTTD, Wira Bandar PC is free software under the GNU GPL v2, and its source code is on GitHub.
Is it OpenTTD?
It's a fork of OpenTTD: OpenTTD's code with changes, not a game made from scratch. Everything OpenTTD has is still there, and the city and transit features are added on top. It isn't made or supported by the OpenTTD team, so please don't report its problems to them.
Do I need OpenTTD installed?
No. If you have it, Wira Bandar PC uses your OpenTTD settings, saves, graphics, NewGRFs and AIs, and never changes OpenTTD's folder. If you don't, it downloads the free OpenGFX graphics the first time.
How do I learn to play?
The game teaches you itself: the first time you start it, a tutorial offers to show you step by step how to start a game and build your first bus line, and it makes the button to click flash. It's always under Tutorial in the main menu. The guides at wirabandar.techmavie.digital explain every feature, in English and Bahasa Melayu.
Which computers does it run on?
There is a ready-made download for 64-bit Windows. It also builds on Linux from the source code, as OpenTTD does.
Credits and licence
Wira Bandar PC is a fork of OpenTTD: OpenTTD's code with changes, not a game made from scratch. OpenTTD is made by the OpenTTD team and its contributors, starting from Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon Deluxe, and is free software under the GNU General Public License version 2. Wira Bandar PC keeps that licence and OpenTTD's credits, and its source code is public. It is not made or endorsed by the OpenTTD team.