Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for December 7th, 2020, detailing all the changes that have happened since November 30th, 2020. Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.
Update 0.13.1.0 (Karaoke Rooms)
Work continues on the next update to Tower Unite, Update 0.13.1.0. Snow has fallen with this update, as the Winter Plaza and Holiday Events return. This update will also contain Karaoke Rooms, which are rent-able private nightclub rooms you can reserve for you and your friends. This update will also include bug fixes and new features, which you can read about here.
December 2020 Condo Contest Begins
This month, we're running a winter / festivity theme condo contest! This contest runs through the entire month of December, ending on December 31st. First place winner takes home 1,000,000 units, and participants may be rewarded 75,000 units! You can read more about the contests, as well as the rules here.
Miscellany
Johanna finished working on the player fade system, which will fade players from your view if they get too close to your camera, preventing griefing. She also finished up the Nightclub Karaoke Rooms, and updated the Arcade to include the Arcade Billiards.
Lifeless continued working on the Virus map, "Theme Park".
macdguy worked on implementing the Karaoke rooms, along with changes to the Snowball Battle minigame, and implementing the player fade system and fixes for various Billiards bugs.
Madmijk worked on trying to resolve Soundcloud sync issues with the Nightclub.
Sketchman continued working on crash fixes, adding a fix for a crash related to workshop icons, and another fix for a workshop related crash. He also added LODs to some lobby and character meshes, and recomposed the workshop code to further reduce hitching when loading a model.
Wheezwer started the condo contest, worked on concept for the rail shooting gallery tunnel, worked on concept art for a future feature, art for the Karaoke Rooms and dialogue for the Karaoke Room NPC. She also worked on finishing the Steam trading card stuff to get it wrapped up.
Karaoke Room: Lobby WIP
Karaoke Room: Menu WIP
Upcoming Achievement Icons WIP
Sample Upgrade Icon (Fire Little Crusaders Dragon Skin) WIP
Wrap It Up
That about covers everything that happened since November 30th, 2020 at PixelTail Games. See you all next week!
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for November 30th, 2020, detailing all the changes that have happened since November 23rd, 2020. Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.
The Nightclub Update (0.13.0.0)
Last week, we released the long awaited Nightclub, which features a fully fledged visualizer with YouTube and Soundcloud support, along with Billiards.
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You can view everything that was released in this update here.
Additionally, we also released Hotfix 0.13.0.1 which fixed some issues that cropped up with the original release, which you can find more information about here.
Little Crusaders: Mystic Grove
In the Nightclub update (0.13.0.0), we also released the new Little Crusaders map, Mystic Grove.
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Accelerate: Wishy Washy Waterfall
Lifeless worked on getting the map ready for release.
Will finished working on the music.
Accelerate: Wishy Washy Waterfall
Miscellany
Chris finished working on a new gun for Slaughterday Night Live.
Johanna continued working on the rail-based shooting gallery. She also started working on a fade system that will fade out other players from your view while playing a game, preventing players from blocking your view.
JJosh continued working on the new Plaza NPCs.
Lifeless continued working on the Virus map, "Theme Park".
macdguy worked on resolving bugs that occurred from the original Nightclub update.
Madmijk worked on trying to resolve Soundcloud sync issues with the Nightclub.
Sketchman continued working on crash fixes and issues with time synchronization, while also helping fix issues with Billiards.
Wheezwer worked on concept art for the building which will house the rail-based shooting gallery. She also worked on new designs for the Redbubble.
Will finished working on the music for the Lighthouse store.
Slaughterday Night Live: New Gun
Plaza: Rail-based Shooting Gallery Building Concept Art WIP
Plaza: Arcade Pizza NPC WIP
Wrap It Up
That about covers everything that happened since November 23rd, 2020 at PixelTail Games. See you all next week!
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Yes, it's here! The Nightclub features a full fledged visualizer with YouTube and Soundcloud support. Order drinks at the bar, or play billiards in the pool hall. Soundcloud music is fully visualized and synced with the lights of the Nightclub.
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New Multiplayer Game: 8-Ball Billiards
Featured in the Nightclub (and soon Arcade and Casino) is 8-ball Billiards. Play with a friend or by yourself. Chalk not included (not a joke, we haven't added chalk yet to the game).
New Little Crusaders Map: Mystic Grove
Mystic Grove takes place in a dark and foreboding forest that holds special power. Only those who are worthy enough can wield the sword and use it against the powerful dragon.
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Sneak around and use your lanterns sparingly, for the Dragon is hungrier at night.
Changes
Nightclub is now open
Billiards is now available to play in the Nightclub
Nightclub bar is now open
Little Crusaders: Mystic Grove
Sync your dances to the music: You can now adjust the speed of your emotes by holding CTRL and using the mouse wheel to adjust the speed of your current emote
Plaza: Upped AFK timer from 60 seconds to 3 minutes in Plaza
AFK HUD now shows up in Plaza
AFK HUD now warns you when you are about to go AFK
Added media volume slider to the bottom left of the HUD when you have any media player being watched
LC: Added a dynamic light when knights are on fire
LC: Added depth shadow for dragon so you can see the dragon at all times as the dragon
Moved Haunted Painting item to DIY store
LC: Knights now have longer sprint durations, and higher rank knights get slightly longer sprint durations
LC: Increased dragon sprint speed by 10%
LC - Knightsend-by-Sea lighting pass
Bug Fixes
Fixed emote camera offsets not colliding with the floors, which allowed the camera to clip through the ground
When you view yourself, the camera now remembers where it was before and interps back to that position instead of rotating the player into a new rotation after finishing viewself
Plaza: Fixed Lighthouse lamp not always being on at night
Plaza optimizations and misc collision fixes
Plaza: Fixed interior atmospheric fog enabling when streaming from one interior to another interior
Fixed player action UI (the C menu) always recreating itself, which would cause bandwidth usage as it reloaded the workshop information each key press
Fixed Movie Theater Seat item being off center
Known Issues
Due to the visualization system, Soundcloud in the Nightclub currently does not sync when players enter late. We are working on resolving this
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for November 23rd, 2020, detailing all the changes that have happened since November 16th, 2020. Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.
Hotfix 0.12.2.2
Last week, we released Hotfix 0.12.2.2 which brought an end to the Halloween Events, as well as some bug and crash fixes. You can read more about this hotfix here.
November 2020 Condo Contest Ends
The November 2020 Condo Contest has ended, and congratulations to "twitch.tv_caat96", "Kalandor", and "CalculatorSpoon" for their first, second, and third place wins. You can view all of the entries for this condo contest here, and stay tuned for future condo contests!
Little Crusaders: Mystic Grove
macdguy continued working on the upcoming Little Crusaders map, "Mystic Grove".
Lifeless and Johanna worked on finishing the art pass for "Mystic Grove".
Little Crusaders: Mystic Grove WIP
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Miscellany
Johanna worked on collision and level streaming optimizations for the Plaza, worked on the rail shooting gallery, and worked on the secret upcoming update.
JJosh continued working on the new Plaza NPCs.
Lifeless continued working on the Accelerate map, "Wishy Washy Waterfall", and the Virus map, "Theme Park".
macdguy worked on general fixes for the game, and continued working on the secret update.
Madmijk fixed some bugs with Accelerate, and continued working on the secret update.
Sketchman continued working on crash fixes and issues with time synchronization.
Wheezwer continued working on art for the Arcade cabinet, "Galaxy Time", creating projectiles, level art, and explosions.
Will continued working on music for the Accelerate map, Wishy Washy Waterfall, along with music for the Lighthouse store.
Plaza: Billiards Spin WIP
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Wrap It Up
That about covers everything that happened since November 16th, 2020 at PixelTail Games. See you all next week!
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Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's Halloween events! The events are now over and our next holiday events to look forward to are the Winter Holidays 2020!
Finished New Lighthouse and Sea Store Stores
The new location for the Sea Store is now complete with new music and atmosphere. The new lighthouse interior was also completed in this update. These were mostly complete during Halloween events, but now they are fully finished.
Changes
Removed Halloween 2020 events
Plaza: Optimizations and visual improvements
Accelerate: Optimized start line screen
Bug Fixes
Virus: Fixed hit effects/damage notes not showing up if you headshot virus
Virus: Smoothed view bob tilting
Workshop thumbnail crash fixes
Chat crash fix
Other misc workshop crash fixes
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for November 16th, 2020, detailing all the changes that have happened since November 9th, 2020. Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.
Pine Valley Track 2 Update 0.12.2.0 & Hotfix 0.12.2.1
Last week, we released Update 0.12.2.0 which included Track 2 of the Accelerate map, Pine Valley, along with several crash fixes for Workshop. You can view everything included with that update here.
We also released a Hotfix (Update 0.12.2.1), which included general balancing and bug fixes for issues identified with Update (0.12.2.0). You can read more about that hotfix here.
Halloween Event Ending (Update 0.12.2.2)
We're currently working on Update 0.12.2.2, which will bring an end to the Halloween Events, as well some crash fixes. We're hoping to get this update out tomorrow or Wednesday. You can read more about this update here.
November 2020 Condo Contest Begins
This month, we're running an autumn-themed Condo Contest! This contest ends on November 23rd, so make sure to get your submissions in ASAP! Winner takes home 1,000,000 units! You can read more about the contest, as well as rules for Co-op condo submissions here.
Slaughterday Night Live (SDNL)
macdguy started working on prototyping movement and gun-play for Slaughterday Night Live. This includes Camera Bobbing, Jumping, Double Jumping, Air Strafing, the Gib system, and more.
Slaughterday Night Live: Sliding Demo WIP
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Slaughterday Night Live: Movement Demo (Air Strafing, Double Jumping, Air Dashing) WIP
JJosh started working on the new Seasons NPC based off the concept art by Wheezwer.
Plaza: New Seasons NPC
Miscellany
Johanna continued working on the rail shooting gallery.
macdguy worked on the HUD for Billiards.
Sketchman worked on several bugs and crashes relating to Workshop, fixed a long standing bug with hit detection on servers, worked on a crash relating to Workshop Icons, and touched up the Jetpack ad artwork.
Wheezwer worked on podium banners for the Accelerate map, Wishy Washy Waterfall.
Will continued working on music for the Accelerate map, Wishy Washy Waterfall, prototyped music for Slaughterday Night Live, and prototyped music for a few arcade machines.
Plaza: Billiards HUD
Wrap It Up
That about covers everything that happened since November 9th, 2020 at PixelTail Games. See you all next week!
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Track 2 of Pine Valley is now ready to play! We've also balanced Accelerate gameplay in this update.
Keep your eyes peeled when you hit the road on Pine Valley’s second track. In this new addition to our forested raceway, rocky roads lead to sharp turns and ramps where timing is everything! A scenic river runs through the whole track with water from the many waterfalls that flow over the cliffsides.
Addressing Workshop Crashes
In this update we focused on crashes relating to Workshop player models. There were a few crashes that started to crop up relating to various user generated content.
Halloween 2020 Events End November 16th
We'll be concluding our Halloween 2020 events very soon! Make sure you grab as many Ghoul Coins as you can before the event ends!
Changes
Accelerate: Pine Valley Track 2
Condo: Added fish support to the Resort suite aquariums
Accelerate: Sun item will no longer be given to players if a sun item was just recently used
Accelerate: Players who aren't racing no longer get items
Little Crusaders: Added use prompts to pickups and Birb
Media player UI now has an updated look
Bug Fixes
Several crash fixes for Workshop
Resolved issues relating to game timers being desynced
Adjusted Ball Race/Minigolf platform synchronization rate to reduce jitters
Fixed crash related to loading workshop items in the workshop editor
Fixed game world menu for 4:3 resolution. Now when it's in that aspect mode, it'll automatically hide the server list on the right and add a find server button so everything can fit
Made lots of little spacing adjustments for 4:3 resolutions
Adjusted scaling of create map list to fit for 4:3 resolutions
Fixed leaving Songbirds or Toy Stop leading to a soft lock
Fixed some big flat fish from getting stuck inside small pools
Fixed the fish drag slot in the Highrise pool not working
Fixed issues with purchases failing often in the Ghoulcery store
Accelerate: Fixed speed effects displaying after finishing a race
Accelerate: Fixed empty items in your inventory after finishing a race
Virus: Fixed TNT being able to kill survivors in some cases
Little Crusaders: Fixed an exploit
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for November 9th, 2020, detailing all the changes that have happened since November 2nd, 2020. Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.
Pine Valley Track 2 Update 0.12.2.0
We're currently working on getting Update 0.12.2.0 ready for release. This update will contain Track 2 of the Accelerate map, Pine Valley, along with several crash fixes for Workshop and other bug fixes in general. You can view everything included with this update here.
Priority Survey Results Are In! - October 2020 Survey
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Priority Survey for October 2020. You can view all the results of the survey here.
November 2020 Condo Contest Begins
This month, we're running an autumn-themed Condo Contest! This contest ends on November 23rd, so make sure to get your submissions in ASAP! Winner takes home 1,000,000 units! You can read more about the contest, as well as rules for Co-op condo submissions here.
Miscellany
Caboose700 continued working on implementing various new items and finalizing the upgrades items.
Johanna worked on getting the Winter Plaza prepared and continued working on track 2 of the Accelerate map, Sunrise Isles.
Lifeless continued working on the Accelerate map, Wishy Washy Waterfall.
macdguy worked on getting the Pine Valley: Track 2 update ready for release, and also started working on Billiards and bug fixes/balancing for games worlds.
Madmijk fixed various bugs pertaining to fish, while also fixing other reported bugs.
Sketchman worked on several issues pertaining to Workshop crashes, worked on reducing hitching with loading Workshop models, worked on some fixes with the game timer system, created a fix for transaction issues pertaining to Sea Dollars and Ghoul Coins, and made general touch-ups to the advertisement artwork in the Plaza.
Wheezwer continued working on concept art for NPCs.
Will continued working on music for the Accelerate map, Wishy Washy Waterfall, as well as music for the Lighthouse store.
Plaza: Seasons Store NPC Concept Art WIP
Plaza: Billiards Demo WIP
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Something Around the Corner?
You may be wondering why this Dev Log was a bit smaller than usual. That's because we've been putting the final touches on something special in the background. We don't want to spoil the surprise, but don't worry we'll be showing it off very soon, so stay tuned!
Wrap It Up
That about covers everything that happened since November 2nd, 2020 at PixelTail Games. See you all next week!
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