Zeepkist News

View the event on Zeepkist's Official Discord server!

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

• Sunday 29th January at 10:00 PST
  
• Sunday 29th January at 13:00 EST
  
• Sunday 29th January at 18:00 GMT
  
• Sunday 29th January at 19:00 CET
  
• Monday 30th January at 05:00 AEDT
  

[h2]Super League Details[/h2]

We will be competing on 11 of the 19 level submissions from the Construction level contest held earlier this month.

The rooms will open around 10 minutes before the event starts and is scheduled to last around 1 hour and 45 minutes (7 minutes per level). The first timed level will begin on the hour.

The leaderboards in all 2-3 rooms will be tracked and will be combined into a single overall leaderboard post-event on our Discord server!

A playlist of the event lineup to quickly setup an online practice session is available to download on our Official Discord server in the #super-league channel.

You can checkout all 19 level submissions on the Steam Workshop!

Top 3 with the most championship points will receive a special role and 3,000 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. Rooms are filled on a first-come-first-served basis.

Look out for the following rooms hosted by Akane:

• Zeepkist Super League: Offroad Rally (1) - Akane
  
• Zeepkist Super League: Offroad Rally (2) - Akane
  
• Zeepkist Super League: Offroad Rally (3) - Akane (only if rooms 1 & 2 both fill up)
  

[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 for all 19 level submissions. You will be able to pick your 3 favourite levels from the Construction theme!

- Akane

[h3]THEME: V13 Omni Special[/h3]

• Build a level that incorporates the new omni-booster track piece.
  
  This new piece boosts you in the direction you are currently pointing in and can be found alongside the standard arrow booster in the Level Editor build menu.
  

[h3]DEADLINE[/h3]

• Your track should be complete and submitted by Saturday, 11th February 2023 at 18:00 UTC+0
• 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 - "
   

[h3]LEVEL RULES[/h3]

1. Scaling track pieces is permitted
   
2. Level MUST have an author time under 1 minute 30 seconds (between 30sec to 1min preferred)
   
3. Level MUST have at least 1 checkpoint. Consider adding additional checkpoints for split timing or where it would prevent a cut, as cuts do not make for good tournament tracks!
   
4. Level MUST NOT have hidden finishes or hidden shortcuts (e.g using no-collision or invisible blocks to hide a secret path that is NOT the intended route)
   
5. Level MUST meet any additional requirements set in the level contest's theme
   

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

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

- Akane

In just under a week from now, January 28th, it will be 2 years ago that Zeepkist first launched on Steam!!

[h2]To celebrate the occasion I'm going to be recording a Q&A session with Zeepkist's music guy, Duncan Steven![/h2]

You can submit questions in the comments of this news post, or in the dedicated "zeepkist-anniversary-qa" channel on the Zeepkist Discord! (https://discord.gg/kmfaaQg)

We'll be going through your best and brightest questions and upload it on the Steelpan Interactive Youtube account afterwards, on January 28 :)

We'll be recording on either friday or saturday so if you want to make sure we don't miss your question, post before then!


Happy Zeepkisting!!

- Yannic

- Tweaked the bad words filter

If you want to discuss the bad words filter, the best place to give feedback is the official Discord!

https://discord.gg/kmfaaQg

Hey everyone!!!

I've been receiving reports of users giving inappropriate names to their rooms, and generally spamming the chat with abusive words. So here's a quick update to fix that.

I've added a bad word filter to Zeepkist, which will filter out bad words and replace them with cartoon-style bad words ($%%&#!).

I want to keep Zeepkist a wholesome and welcoming place for everyone, bad actors have no place here.


Ban function

We've also added a new banning function to host controls, you can now ban abusing players from your rooms, meaning they won't be able to connect to your room whenever you are host.

You can ban players from Host Controls > Manage Players.




Omnidirectional Booster

I've also added another block!

The "Omnidirectional Booster" will boost your zeepkist forward in the direction it's facing, regardless of your angle relative to the booster. This should give you all a whole bunch of new options for level building! :D




Happy Zeepkisting!

That's the quick update! The next big update is planned to be an overhaul of the audio systems, there might be some smaller updates in between if it's taking too long. But roadmap wise, big audio overhaul is next! :)