Tower Unite News

A new SDNL battlefield has been introduced! Impress the audience with your nautical skills. Fight on the crashed Everstuck and sail your way to victory!





Changes

• SDNL: Added new map - Containership!
  
• Collection Book: Upped "Survived Compound" achievement (1,500 units > 5,000 units)
  
• Collection Book: Upped "Survived Gasoline" achievement (1,500 units > 5,000 units)
  
• Collection Book: Upped "Survived Village" achievement (10,000 units > 25,000 units)
  
• Collection Book: Upped "Survived Nightyard" achievement (10,000 units > 25,000 units)
  
• Collection Book: Upped "Ancient Mariner" achievement (1,500 units > 25,000 units)

Bug Fixes

• Condo: Optimized Teleporters extensively
  
• Attempted fix for Rocket Launcher explosion crash on AMD cards in Hinderance
  
• Collection Book: Fixed Ball Race - Oasis stats being missing from the stat page
  
• Collection Book: Fixed "Mastered Village" not being diamond tier achievement (from 10,000 units > 25,000 units)
  
• Collection Book: Fixed "The Mysterious Desert Whales" not being bronze tier achievement (from 5,000 units > 1,500 units)
  
• SDNL: Fixed prop kills only being counted for the host
  
• Fixed some collision issues in Virus: Desertion
  
• Fixed some collision issues in Virus: Subway

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for November 13th, 2023, detailing all the changes that have happened since November 6th, 2023. 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.

[h2]CATSACK PLUSH CAMPAIGN - ENDS FRIDAY[/h2]



The Makeship Catsack Plush Campaign ends this Friday (November 17th)!

Check the campaign post here to see the exact time.

[h2]November 2023 Art Contest[/h2]



It's time for another art contest!

There's no theme this time. The submission just needs to be related to Tower Unite!

Entries are allowed until December 7th, 2023 at 11:59PM CT.

Be sure to check out the prizes and follow the rules here!

[h2]Ball Race: Eruption[/h2]

Lifeless continued working on the new Ball Race map, Eruption.

[h3]Ball Race: Eruption WIP[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

Johanna worked on re-arranging, re-sizing, and re-shaping the boardwalk to accommodate future attractions. She also worked on the Bumper Cars building, added a beach to the boardwalk area, remodeled the support structures, and added new railings.

Joshua continued working on the new workshop skeleton, working on porting over the existing animations to the new skeleton. He also worked on figuring out IK and shoulder / proportion adjustments.

macdguy worked on implementing achievements for Containership, fixed bugs with the collection book, optimized teleporters, and started working on a subtitle system for when voice lines are added.

madmijk continued working on MIDI support.

Nuclearxpotato worked on some new holiday items.

Sketchman continued working on optimizations.

Wheezwer continued working on textures for the Thanksgiving scarfs, as well as working on event icons for the weekend events.

Will worked on music for Containership.

[h3]New Holiday Items WIP[/h3]



[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since November 6th, 2023 at PixelTail Games.

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for November 6th, 2023, detailing all the changes that have happened since October 30th, 2023. 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.

[h2]CATSACK PLUSH CAMPAIGN EXTENDED[/h2]

The Catsack Plush Campaign with Makeship has been extended for an additional week!

If you haven't had a chance and want to grab a Catsack, you have more time! And thank you to everyone who has supported already!

https://www.makeship.com/products/catsack-plush



[h2]November 2023 Art Contest[/h2]



It's time for another art contest!

There's no theme this time. The submission just needs to be related to Tower Unite!

Entries are allowed until December 7th, 2023 at 11:59PM CT.

Be sure to check out the prizes and follow the rules here!

[h2]Halloween 2023 Condo Contest OVER[/h2]



The results of the community vote are in!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the vote! There were 90 responses this time!

There was also a 2 way tie for 5th place, so both got the prize.

1st Place - 2,000,000 Units - The L I C H | Boss Fight
2nd Place - 1,000,000 Units - Evil Cathedral
3rd Place - 750,000 Units - Flashback Megaplex’s Fear Fest
4th Place - 500,000 Units - Sanguinem Luna
5th Place (TIE) - 300,000 Units - Untitled
5th Place (TIE) - 300,000 Units - The Trial of Myrkul

Thank you all so much for participating in the contest and vote. There were lots of really great entries this time!

Units should be distributed to all participants later today! Participants who didn't place will get 175,000 Units.

And keep an eye out for the next contests! We'll be doing another art contest as well as starting the next Condo Contest submission period soon.

Check out all the other entries here!

[h2]Halloween 2023 Events! - Ongoing[/h2]



Our Halloween events for 2023 are ongoing!

Today we released a small hotfix fixing some small bugs, as well as adding a new music track to Dark Voyage and some small gameplay changes with the Boardwalk games.

You can see the patch notes here.

[h2]Boardwalk Carnival[/h2]

Johanna worked on getting the Bumper Cars ready for the Boardwalk, as well as working on other future games.

macdguy worked on fixing up bugs to be released in the hotfix.

[h3]Boardwalk Carnival: Bumper Cars[/h3]



[h3]Boardwalk Carnival: Future Game WIP[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

Joshua continued working on overhauling the player model skeleton rig, working on a system for the legacy models to work with the skeleton, as well as porting the animations over to the new rig.

Lifeless continued working on the new Ball Race map, Eruption.

Nuclearxpotato worked on some upcoming items.

Sketchman continued working on backend optimizations, as well as fixing up old achievement icons and making new ones for upcoming maps.

Will continued working on music for Containership and Eruption.

[h3]Updated Achievement Icons[/h3]



[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since October 30th, 2023 at PixelTail Games.

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Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! https://discord.gg/pixeltail
We love awesome people like you!

Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time: https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week! https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs

Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.
For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18
For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7

This update addresses several bugs from the new update.

Changes

• Dark Voyage: New Hell music track by Will
  
• Boardwalk - Milk Jug Toss: Reduced payouts a little bit (10% decrease)
  
• Boardwalk - Balloon Pop: Decreased game start wait time from 10 seconds to 4 seconds
  
• Arcade - Meteoroid Mania: Added another meteoroid ball

Bug Fixes

• Fixed names not always showing on server lists/condo list
  
• Boardwalk: Added measures to prevent griefing
  
• Boardwalk - Splash Blasterz: Fixed water effects not showing up on low effects setting
  
• Boardwalk - Milk Jug Toss: Fixed milk jugs being counted twice sometimes
  
• Condo: Fixed Dragon Egg not finishing opening animations when the dragon is revealed to be a Shadow Dragon
  
• Condo: Fixed Hidden Seat not having edit option
  
• Game Ports: Fixed map scoreboard option existing
  
• Collection Book: Fixed remains showing up in collectibles list
  
• Arcade - The Offering: Fixed score labels not matching the actual score values

Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! https://discord.gg/pixeltail
We love awesome people like you!

We're also active on Twitter! https://twitter.com/PixelTailGames

Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week! http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs

Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.
For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18
For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for October 30th, 2023, detailing all the changes that have happened since October 23rd, 2023. 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.

[h2]CATSACK PLUSH CAMPAIGN - 10 days left![/h2]

The Catsack Plush Campaign on Makeship has started!

You can now order a Catsack Plush to fund the campaign!

This campaign is for a limited time, only 10 days remaining, so check it out at the link below!

https://www.makeship.com/products/catsack-plush



[h2]Halloween 2023 Condo Contest - NOW VOTING[/h2]



Hey everyone!

Voting has begun for the Halloween 2023 Condo Contest!

Voting ends today, Monday, October 30th, 2023, at 11:59 PM CT.

Check out the condos and vote here!

[h2]Halloween 2023 Events! - Ongoing[/h2]



Our Halloween events for 2023 are ongoing! Last week, we released the second phase of the Halloween events, which brought with it the new Boardwalk Carnival with 4 mini-games, some new items, and more. You can read all about that update here.

Johanna finished working on the art for the Boardwalk Carnival.

macdguy released the Boardwalk Carnival and worked on fixing issues that arose with the initial release.

Wheezwer worked on art for the upcoming boardwalk attractions.

[h2]Ball Race: Eruption[/h2]

Lifeless worked on a new Ball Race map, Eruption. All the basic level design has been completed, and he is currently working on art.

[h3]Ball Race: Eruption Early WIP[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

Joshua worked on overhauling the playermodel skeleton rig, currently fixing up long-standing problems and transferring animations from the current rig.

Sketchman continued working on backend optimizations and bug fixes.

Will continued working on music for Dark Voyage and SDNL.

[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since October 23rd, 2023 at PixelTail Games.

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Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! https://discord.gg/pixeltail
We love awesome people like you!

Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time: https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week! https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs

Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.
For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18
For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7