Zeepkist News

View the event on Zeepkist's Official Discord server!

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

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

• Sunday 18th June at 10:00 PDT
  
• Sunday 18th June at 13:00 EDT
  
• Sunday 18th June at 18:00 BST
  
• Sunday 18th June at 19:00 CEST
  
• Monday 19th June at 04:00 AEDT
  

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

• Sunday 18th June at 19:00 PDT
  
• Sunday 18th June at 22:00 EDT
  
• Monday 19th June at 03:00 BST
  
• Monday 19th June at 04:00 CEST
  
• Monday 19th June at 12:00 AEDT
  

[h2]Super League Details[/h2]

We will be competing on 15 of the 72 level submissions from the Gravity 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 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: Gravity (1)
  
• Zeepkist Super League: Gravity (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

[h3]THEME: Under the Sea / Marine Life[/h3]

• Build a level that has players racing underwater or amongst marine life.
  
  
• Looking for ideas? How about a track that weaves through a vibrant coral reef; take players to the depths of the abyss; build a track around a sunken shipwreck; or discover the lost city of Atlantis!
  

[h3]DEADLINE[/h3]

• Your track should be complete and submitted by Sunday, 2nd July 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. Scaling track pieces is permitted
   
2. Level MUST follow any theme requirements set
   
3. Level MUST be under 4000 blocks
4. Level MUST have an author time above 30 seconds
5. Level MUST have an author time under 1 minute 30 seconds
6. 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!
   
7. 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
  
• Top 3 in the community votes for Best Decor and Best Track Layout will each win a special hard hat cosmetic in-game. Discord users will also get a `Level Contest Winner` role and 3,000 chat EXP in our Discord server.
  

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

The theme is Under the Sea / Marine Life and ends at the same time as this level contest!! View the banner contest event details on Discord

- Akane

- Limited amount of feather particles able to be spawned per single feather block (100)

- Feather blocks now also affect dynamic objects

- Fixed Z-Fighting on feather forcefields

- Disabled "Filename" input field in level editor loading screen, to avoid confusion

- Added "Use Legacy LOD Calculations" toggle in graphics settings, enabling it causes big-scaled objects to no longer appear "further away" for the LOD calculation. (The way it used to be before the LOD update a while ago).

- Added Banner & Level Contest winners

- Added "Feather Forcefield" blocks

- Added feather primitive

- Moved road physics blocks (fans, tilt blocks, feather forcefields) to the roads folders

- Placed an extra podium back into the statues folder




Hi everyone!!

Zeepkist 2D and the sound update are still taking a while, so I figured it was time to give Zeepkist another neat cool fun feature while the big stuff isn't done yet.

Introducing: Feather Forcefields!!



Feather forcefields are built as a solution for cases where you made a biiiig yump, but the landing doesn't quite fit right and Unity throws you some occasional landing bugs.



Feather forcefields will slow down your velocity along the forcefield's local Y axis (green), while not touching your velocity along the X and Z axis (red & blue).

There's settings for slow down force and max-slowing-speed, so they're highly customizable for your specific situation!



In game, they don't look like big blue transparent forcefields, but instead display as a bunch of white feathers floating around where the forcefield is active.




If anything's broken, let me know in the Discord!! (the blue-purple button in the main menu)

Happy Zeepkisting!!