Ylands News

tl;dr
- Script Module to store scripts as compositions
- Streaming suggestions

Hey there Ylanders!

Today we’ll discuss a pretty neat feature we’re going to sneak into the Exploration 1.5 Update for Creators 🤫 It’s called the Script Module and we believe it will help out a lot of Creators in the future. In laymen’s terms, it is a kind of black box for scripts and game logics, which you can export and share with other Creators via compositions. So what will it do? Well, simply it will give a creator the ability to export any number of game logics with script as a single game logic thus saving a lot of space and helping to make the scripting more "clean" and manageable. This means the creator can then use the logics and scripts in a different map but ALSO other Creators can then pick up the composition and use it in their game, meaning you can then trade logics and scripts with fellow creators and learn from each other 😊 

Player Modules WiP

Also in scripting you’ll, of course, be able to reference a module as well incorporating it into your wider creation. And if an older version of the script and logics are detected, the module should be able to update itself while keeping all the original in and out script references, meaning, that the original creator can keep the module up-to-date and share the new version without any hassle 😁

Another topic I wanted to open today is the matter of our weekly streams. We’d love to hear from you, what YOU would like to see in our future streams. What you’re interested in, what you think should be covered and what should be addressed more. That is why you can now visit a new Topic here on the forum, where I’d love to hear your suggestions and comments to the streaming 😊

And that’s it for today, so until next time, stay safe and stay classy Ylanders!

tl;dr
- Ylands Creators Competition is now LIVE!
- Creators can win BIG PRIZES!
- Join us tomorrow at our first Stream and ask us anything

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Hey there Ylanders!

So, you might have already noticed, that we have announced our very first Ylands Creators Competition, which is now live! And let me say, we are really excited, what our Creators will come up with and what imaginative games we’ll get to play at the end of this 😁



The Competition will run till December, so if you would like to join, all you need to do is create a game in the Editor, upload it to the Workshop, start a forum thread here and then just sit back and see, if you win one of our cool prizes, be it real-world money or a bundle of Coyns 😊 Or you can start working on another game and don’t worry if you don’t finish it in time, because this is not the last competition. Far from it, it is the first from a planned series of competitions that will run throughout 2021 with the culmination of a HUGE competition at the end of it 🤩


So there’s never been a better time to try out the Editor and all its possibilities. If you would like some pointers, you can check out our tutorials and if you want some inspiration, head to Naru’s Corner to see, what can be done in the Editor.


And one more thing: tomorrow we’ll have our first ever Ylands Stream, so tune in here at 16:00 CEST if you want to chat with me about the Competition, Exploration and anything Ylands related or if you just want to chat 😅We’ll be checking out some of the cool games already out there made by some very creative Creators 😊
 


So a lot of exciting stuff is up ahead Ylanders but remember most importantly, stay classy Ylanders 😉

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tl,dr
- New Goodie Pack
- Egyptian Theme
- Improved Mummy
- Horus and Anubis
- Weapons and Armour
- Future Implementation into Exploration

Hey there Ylanders!

As you might have noticed, some new goodies have landed into Ylands a couple of days ago. The Goodie Pack #2 is here to shorten the wait for the next big update and yet again brings some pretty neat additions to the Ylands ecosystem. First of all the theme of this Goodie Pack was Ancient Egypt. Whilst last time we directed our attention to the wet Atlantean Empire, this time we ended up in the dry sandy lands of the Pharaohs. 



But before we started figuring out, what new to add, we had to address our good old friend The Mummy. A staple in Egyptian mythology and modern pop-culture, we added the mummy years and years ago...and he hadn't aged well 😅 So we decided to change his bandages for some cleaner ones and give the old chap a proper makeover and the outcome is pretty good in our opinion 😁 And what's more, we have also added a Mummy Wraps Set, so you can now pretend to be a mummy too 😄

But there are plenty of new items in the game now too, like the Bronze Weapon Set featuring a cool axe, a couple of spears a staff and a knife. To complement this, we have also added a Bronze Armour set. For the Creators out there we have also added a new Sandstone door for those old dusty crypts 😁

But the stars of the show, of course, are our new monsters, the Horus Avatar and Anubis Avatar. These new enemies will be a challenge for every tomb raider or daring archaeologist. Towering over the player they radiate power and strength and their attacks are devastating.

But Explorers, do not fret! For this update is for us as much as for you, because now we can take these assets and start working on implementing them in exciting new Random Encounters and Adventures for update 1.5 so very soon you'll be able to meet Anubis and Horus in your own travels and fight the Mummy when you get a runny nose 😁

And last but not least, we also fixed some pretty annoying issues and you can find more about it in our changelog 😊

And that's it for now, but keep your eyes peeled on this space because there are rumours of a certain competition starting soon 😉

So until next time, stay classy Ylanders.

We continue with another themed package of assets after Atlantis, this time expanding the Egyptian theme. New enemies and mummy wraps set enable you to experience some serious tomb raiding, bronze armour and weapon set to let you arm yourself as the warrior of ancient empires and all these are also getting ready to enter the Exploration world in Update 1.5 😊


New Assets

Horus Avatar & Anubis Avatar enemies
Bronze Weapons Set (axe, two spears, staff, knife)
Bronze Armor Set (helmet, chest, legs, boots)
Mummy Wraps Set (chest, legs)
Sandstone Doors (regular, big, large)
Flat seamless basic shapes


Tweaks and Improvements

Mummy reworked

Fixes

[YLD-25991] Fixed: Editor: Game Logic panel - filter dropdown missing translations
[YLD-26411] Fixed: VS: "Screen shake" did not work when no sound effect was chosen
[YLD-26108] Fixed: VS: Firing cannons through script did not work
[YLD-26351] Fixed: VS: Removed random puzzles visible in the background of the left panel
[YLD-26125] Fixed: VS: disappearing texts when renaming variables or changing literals
[YLD-25735] Fixed: Editor: rotation widget did not always show the nearest octant to the camera
[YLD-26304] Fixed: Editor: saving could stop to work when you tried to save a game through the menu panel.
[YLD-26184] Fixed: Editor: animated objects in the animated group were not always animated in exported game.

And more...

tl;dr
- Finishin Update 1.4.1 and working on Exploration Update
- Two Awards at the 2019 Czech Games
- New Games in the Workshop

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Hey there Ylanders!

While we are finishing up work on our small 1.4.1 update and also while working on our big 1.5 Exploration update, we thought we’d share a few good news snippets with you 😊

One of them being, as you might have noticed on various Social Media, that we won a couple of prizes 😁 At the 2019 Czech Games awards, which got postponed because of the covid situation, we managed to win not one, but two categories 🙂 First one being the free-to-play category for the creative freedom we give every player interested in building and creating and second for best technology solutions, mainly for our Visual Scripting tools and overall powerful Editor. We are of course very proud of our hard-working team and humbled to receive such awards, but it is also because of your help and feedback, that we got to this stage, so thank you too 😊 But as we said in previous Dev Diaries, this in no way means, that we are done or that we are satisfied, but rather, that we want to get better and better, especially now with our big plans surrounding Exploration.

Here are the awards themselves, though unfortunately, they are only in Czech and without subtitles.

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And second good news we have is, that while normally we keep the biomes of Ylands in china and Western Ylands separate, the Creators there are creating a huge amount of some truly spectacular games and projects, so we got together with our friends in China to port some of these games to our Workshop too, so you can try them out and enjoy some really ingenious games. There are a few on the workshop now, that you can try right away, but we’ll be getting some more in down the line. But this won’t be a one way street, because down the line after some of our competitions, that we are very close to announcing, the best of the best from our Workshop will be invited to share their Creations with our chums in the East and maybe at some point we could do a competition between the two Workshops 😉 But that’s for another time.


So until next time, stay classy Ylanders 👋

P.S. You can try out the games here:

https://play.ylands.com/asset/7195

https://play.ylands.com/asset/7197

https://play.ylands.com/asset/7239

https://play.ylands.com/asset/7251

https://play.ylands.com/asset/7264