Hello and Welcome to the SCP:SL Creation Contest 2019!
This event will allow you to show off your skills and share them with the world (SL Community)! The winners will also receive some special rewards and one extra lucky winner will get Redacted Wow!
There will be 7 winners overall, one for each category. What are these categories? They are:
Artwork
Music
Video
Literature
Meme
Other
But wait... that's only 6 categories you say, well the runner ups for each category will receive a special voting by the Northwood Team to decide the 7th winner.
For Steam, only the Artwork category will be available due to limitations, if you wish to submit other work you can head over to our Discord and enter there! Click here for the Discord.
We have a small update from our wonderful Security Team for you :)
Hello there!
We have recently purchased a new central server, this new server is much more powerful than our previous one. We have upgraded the server to improve overall connection to servers and increase the player count in preparation for MP2. The server should be fully functioning within the coming days, we don't expect any downtime however if we do run into issues we apologize.
SCP-173's Model and Future Game Monetization
Hey folks!
Recently we've been teasing you with a big change we're implementing in one of the next updates and a huge part of the community realized that we're planning to change the SCP-173 model. We've seen a lot of misconceptions and rumors related to that topic, so we'd like to explain the situation.
First things first, don't worry - the game will remain free and we are only changing the model because of legal issues. The appearance of SCP-173 is copyrighted and the original author is hard to reach. This is the exact reason why nearly all SCP games are changing it. We understand your attachment to the current model, but the law is the law - we don't want our game to be taken down, do we?
The other rumor was related to microtransactions. SCP:SL development is expensive, and that's not because we're hungry for money. The more solutions and professional software we use - the higher the costs. We want the future updates to be kept on the highest quality we can afford. Many games have started their crowdfunding sites, including ourselves. We currently have a Patreon page which is enough to cover most of our costs and keep the development going. We'd also like to grow, thus we are trying to stash some money away for a rainy day, or to make more projects in the future. Making a multiplayer game is a difficult task, and the majority of the staff works voluntarily. We are definitely not adding microtransactions in the next update, but we do believe in your understanding, that it might be needed in the future. We'd also like to add, that the new SCP-173 model was planned a long time before we ever thought about monetizing the game - these are two independent things. We want this system to not be invasive and to not affect the gameplay in any possible way, so we need to be very careful in terms of adding cosmetic items. We are making multiple discussions with our patrons and the rest of the community more and more often, so we'll be sure that everyone is satisfied with it.
Thanks for understanding Hubert Moszka (Northwood CEO)
TwitchCon 2019
From the 27th to the 29th we will be attending TwitchCon! For those of you attending, you'll be able to meet;
Welknair (CoO)
Maverick (Marketing Director)
SkullOG (Business Development Manager)
Arxela (Content Supervisor)
DoggDemon (Voice Actor)
We will be walking around the convention in Northwood shirts, containing the SCP:SL Logo. Feel free to approach us and say hi, we'll be happy to meet everyone and we might even have a few goodies to give out!
If you can’t make it don’t worry because we will also be streaming on twitch.tv/SCPSL_Official where we will be doing Q&A, meet and greets, and showing off the convention. Hope to see some of you guys there!
Stream Reminder!
Hello again!
We'd like to remind you about our stream which is starting in 20 minutes!
It'll be a short Q&A stream, in which we will talk about our new channel:
https://www.twitch.tv/scpsl_official
If you don't have enough time right now, you can always watch the video itself when it's released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3gRz0vxSo
Please note that it's not the release date of the new update yet, more information in the video.
We've launched our YouTube channel! Megapatch video tomorrow!
Hello guys!
We want to tell you all about everything that it being included in Megapatch 2 with the first DevLog on our new YouTube channel!
The premiere date may change, you can check the current one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3gRz0vxSo
We will also make a short Q&A information stream on Twitch 30 minutes before the premiere! Hope to see everyone there!
https://www.twitch.tv/scpsl_official
Please note that it's not the release date of the new update yet, more information in the video.
Ban policy and EULA changes
Attention all personnel!
We have recently added a new section in our Ban Policy.
The new section entails information regarding griefing and community raids.
As well as a new section, some changes were made on already existing sections within the ban policy.
A link to the ban policy has also been added to the EULA.
Tomorrow at 2PM EST Partner Doggdemon will be playing with viewers and studio staff on his stream. Be sure to join in and have fun!
https://www.twitch.tv/doggdemon
And whats this? A feedback form that was actually planned! We want to hear what you think about how we interact with you and what you want to see from us in the future.
https://forms.gle/3PBqJSti5SewpS3s6
MP2 - Status Update
Attention Foundation Personnel
It has been a significant amount of time since our last correspondence and since then we have had our share of ups and downs. Our silence has been unacceptable and we hope to shed some light on the current situation within Northwood Studios.
Where is the update? - Current Issues
For those who are unaware, we have had many ongoing issues with our networking service and Unity itself. These issues include: The game failing to load, connection issues, game crashes, and Linux builds failing to work.
When it comes to Unity Builds and the bugs encountered from them, we have tried our best to deploy workarounds to these issues. We also made sure to report our problems to the Unity team directly in hopes of later builds resolving the problem. The issues given to the Unity team were confirmed by their QA staff and were forwarded to the Dev Team.
For the networking side we decided it was best to move onto another networking solution. Initial tests on the Windows version of the game showed everything to be functioning correctly. After some time though, we noticed that on a Linux server it would stop receiving data after a few minutes and cease to function. Working closely with the networking library creator, they were able to determine the problem and noted it was only in Unity version 2018.3. Unity version 2019.1 is free of this issue however another problem was found, the project would crash on startup with Linux builds due to an engine bug.
This new issue is not only affecting our game but others as well and we have reached out on the Unity forums to hopefully find more insight to the issue.
What's happening now? - The Future
With everything said, we are still actively working on the game by improving gameplay mechanics and fixing some security issues. We also have that juicy MP2 update ready to go as soon as the networking issues are fixed.
From everyone at Northwood Studios we would like to thank;
Vis2k for helping immensely with trying to fix the networking issues.
The people on the Unity forums for helping wherever they could.
Our wonderful Patreon supporters for sticking with us during these trying times.
And finally everyone who has continued to play the game and make the community a wonderful place, we can never thank you enough.
Community Spotlight
It's been a while since we had one of these, after searching the artwork tab for a while, I believe I found our winner!
Be sure to visit the original and leave a comment and like if you enjoyed it as much as we did!
SCP-096 by EK♡crazycheese
Attention all personnel.
A Q&A Livestream will be held tomorrow (28th of April) at 8:30PM GMT on twitch.tv/scpsl_official
Any questions you may have towards the game or our staff team will be answered in the stream.
Ensure that you attend.
Be aware that personnel who are caught not attending this Q&A seminar will be placed on Keter-Duty for a week.
That will be all. On behalf on the Northwood Staff team, we hope for your presence!
