Zeepkist News

The first Zeepkist Super League event of Season 2 concluded yesterday and now it's time to vote for the best themed levels from the City level contest!

Builders were tasked with building a level that has players racing around a city environment.

For example, a level that takes place on rooftops, in a subway, a city park, through a busy street lined with skyscrapers or in a post-apocalyptic city ravaged by kaiju!



Voting is open until Saturday 3rd June, 2023 at 18:00 BST

[h2]Play the level submissions[/h2]

All of the submissions are available in the Zeepkist Super League - City level pack on the Steam Workshop!

[h2]Other Contests[/h2]

The Gravity level contest and Beach banner contest are underway with just under 2 weeks left! Head on over to the #level-contests or #banner-contests channel in our Official Zeepkist Discord server to join in! (make sure you pick up the Level Contest or Banner Contest roles when joining the server)

[h2]Super League Event Results & Season Standings[/h2]

You can view the complete season standings for season 2 on the Zeepkist Records website!

The results of the City Super League tournament held yesterday is also available now: View event results

- Akane

- Awarded ZSL Winner Hat

- Youtuber TwoFace bullied me into giving him a hat

View the event on Zeepkist's Official Discord server!

[h2]When is the Super League tournament?[/h2]

[h3]Timeslot 1 (2 Rooms)[/h3]

• Sunday 21st May at 10:00 PDT
  
• Sunday 21st May at 13:00 EDT
  
• Sunday 21st May at 18:00 BST
  
• Sunday 21st May at 19:00 CEST
  
• Monday 22nd May at 04:00 AEDT
  

[h3]Timeslot 2 (1 Room)[/h3]

• Sunday 21st May at 19:00 PDT
  
• Sunday 21st May at 22:00 EDT
  
• Monday 22nd May at 03:00 BST
  
• Monday 22nd May at 04:00 CEST
  
• Monday 22nd May at 12:00 AEDT
  

[h2]Super League Details[/h2]

We will be competing on 15 of the 39 level submissions from the City level contest held earlier this month. You can checkout all submissions on the Steam Workshop!

The rooms will open around 10 minutes before the event starts and is scheduled to last around 2 hours (7 minutes per level) with a rest period half way through. The first timed level will begin on the hour (~10 minutes after rooms open)

The leaderboards in all rooms will be tracked and will be combined into a single overall leaderboard post-event on zeepki.st/super-league!

Top 3 with the most championship points will receive a special racing helmet IN-GAME, a Discord role and 3,000 chat EXP in our Discord server!



[h2]Who can join?[/h2]

The Super League is open to all! Open Zeepkist and hop in to one of the Super League rooms hosted by Akane (Timeslot 1) or Socks242 (Timeslot 2). Rooms are filled on a first-come-first-served basis.

Look out for the following rooms hosted by either Akane or Socks242:

• Zeepkist Super League: City (1)
  
• Zeepkist Super League: City (2)
  

[h2]Level Contest Community Vote[/h2]

After the Super League event, we will be opening the community vote to everyone on Steam and our Discord server. You will be able to pick your 3 favourite levels from the City theme!

- Akane

I went ahead and took a shallow dive into the online photo mode "camera mode" code, to see if there were improvements to be made!

And there were! In fact the whole thing can probably use a big overhaul in the future, but for now I figured I'd just slap on some extra better options to improve usability in the meantime!

SO


[h3]New Camera Modes![/h3]

I've added 2 new camera modes to online photo mode!
Static Follow and Dynamic Follow

Static Follow follows your target player statically, from a fixed point behind the other player.

Dynamic Follow does much the same, except the camera will stay level to the horizon.

Static:

Dynamic:

The difference isn't super big, but they're nice options to have.

You'll need to hop into the keybinding settings to bind keys to "Camera 6" and "Camera 7".


[h3]Only Spectate Favorited Players[/h3]

kAN and the boys also told me they were interested in a way to only spectate players they'd favorited, in order to more easily watch what their friends are doing. So I made it so you can "spectate priority" people from the leaderboard now!

By default I've bound them to Ctrl+N and Ctrl+M. (The bindings for looping through all players are M and N)

You can change these in the keybinding settings if you'd like!


[h3]Favoriting People From Leaderboard[/h3]

To aid with the new "Only Spectate Favorites" feature, I've added "Spectate Player" buttons to the Leaderboard view!



This should make it a lot easier to spectate people!

Remember, favorited people will always be able to join your lobbies, overriding the "max allowed players" in a lobby!


[h3]Patch 17:[/h3]

- Someone found a bug in singleplayer which I fixed!
- Improved Dynamic Follow camera
- Press Camera 6 and Camera 7 multiple times to toggle between looking forward and backwards!

Looking backwards:


[h3]Patch 18:[/h3]

- Fixed favoriting people not working as non-host


[h3]Patch 19:[/h3]

- I had to decouple the "spectate favorite" system from the "join room priority" favorite system because it doesn't work on the backend. Uhh anyway these are now separate systems! The "spectate favorites" can be set through leaderboard view! :D

Eyes emoji for "spectate favorite"

Eyes emoji for "spectate favorite"


[h3]Patch 20:[/h3]

- Small fixes


[h2]Happy Zeepkisting!![/h2]

[h3]THEME: Gravity[/h3]

• Build a level that has players racing under the power of gravity only
  
  
• Level MUST NOT have any boosters, fans or slowsters (or other forms of propulsion - e.g hammer or windmill blade boosts)
  
  
• Looking for ideas? How about a steep downhill course or recreating a real life soapbox racing course!
  

[h3]DEADLINE[/h3]

• Your track should be complete and submitted by Saturday, 3rd June 2023 at 18:00 UTC+1
  
  
• Submissions will be combined into a single workshop item after the deadline above
  

[h3]SUBMISSION RULES[/h3]

1. You can only submit one level (you can modify or replace your submission as much as you like until the deadline)
   
2. Level collaborations are permitted (this counts as a level submission for each individual creator)
   
3. The name of the level MUST start with "ZSL - " (e.g "ZSL - My Level")
   

[h3]LEVEL RULES[/h3]

1. Level MUST NOT have any boosters, fans or slowsters (or other forms of propulsion - e.g hammer or windmill blade boosts)
   
2. Scaling track pieces is permitted
   
3. Level MUST follow any theme requirements set
   
4. Level MUST have fewer than 4000 blocks
   
5. Level MUST have an author time above 30 seconds
6. Level MUST have an author time under 1 minute 30 seconds
7. Level MUST have at least 2 checkpoints. Consider adding additional checkpoints for split timing or where it would prevent a cut, as cuts do not make for good tournament tracks!
   
8. Level MUST NOT have hidden finishes/shortcuts (e.g using no-collision or invisible blocks to hide a secret path that is NOT the intended route)
   

[h3]HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR LEVEL[/h3]

1. Join our Official Discord server
2. Upload the level to the Steam Workshop
   
3. Link the workshop item in the theme's thread in #level-submissions
   
   Don't have Discord? You can submit your entry by linking it in the Steam forum thread for this announcement!
   

[h3]WINNERS & PRIZES[/h3]

• Up to 15 of the submitted levels will be used for the next Zeepkist Super League event
  
• The community will vote on their favourite maps from the theme after the ZSL event
  
• The best themed level and the top 3 from the community vote will get a `Level Contest Winner` role and 3,000 EXP in our Discord server and a special hard hat cosmetic in-game!!
  

[h3]BANNER CONTEST[/h3]
We're also hosting a themed banner contest for our discord server banner image!

The theme is Beach and ends at the same time as this level contest!! View the banner contest event details on Discord

- Akane