Tower Unite News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for August 8th, 2022, detailing all the changes that have happened since July 25th, 2022. 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]Accessibility Suggestions[/h2]
We've created a forum post asking the community for suggestions on how we can improve gameplay for players with certain conditions such as colorblindness, dyslexia, or anything else that might affect a players ability to use the standard presentation and controls of the game.

If you have any ideas or suggestions, and possible solutions on how to solve a particular issue, please check out the forum post here.

[h2]August / September 2022 Art Contest ONGOING[/h2]
Hey everyone! It's time for another art contest!

Entries are allowed until September 8, 2022 at 11:59PM CT.

Be sure to check out the prizes and follow the rules! Submit a digital or traditional drawing, a video, 3D model, an animation, etc of Tower Unite for entry.

Prizes
1st Place - 1,000,000 Units
2nd Place - 750,000 Units
3rd Place - 500,000 Units

Prizes may be raised, and we also award participation prizes!

Check out the rules and how to participate here.

[h2]Casino: Phase 2[/h2]
Most of the work on Casino: Phase 2 has been completed. We're currently in the clean-up period, fixing some last minute bugs and conducting internal play tests. We plan on having a Public Beta Test for Casino: Phase 2 at some point in the future before the main release, so stay tuned on our Discord and Twitter for information.

macdguy finished working on Blackjack, added sounds to Roulette, and fixed bugs with Silver Saddles and Bingo. He also worked on fixing up general event logic for all the games.

Will continued working on music and sounds for the Casino.

[h3]Casino: Phase 2 Keno UI WIP[/h3]



[h3]Casino: Phase 2 Networked Bingo Selections WIP[/h3]

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[h2]SDNL: Frostbite[/h2]

Johanna continued working on SDNL: Frostbite.

[h3]SDNL: Frostbite - Map Overview WIP[/h3]



[h3]SDNL: Frostbite - Buildings WIP[/h3]



[h3]SDNL: Frostbite - Roads WIP[/h3]



[h3]SDNL: Frostbite - Crate Prop WIP[/h3]



[h2]Condo: Updated Items[/h2]

macdguy updated the new floating chat message item to support background coloring.

Nuclearxpotato added rotation settings to doors, as well as adding new functionality to sinks along with new kitchen items.

[h3]Condo: Door Rotation Settings WIP[/h3]

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[h3]Condo: New Kitchen/Sink Functionality and Items WIP[/h3]

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[h3]Condo: Color-able Background on Floating Chat Message Item WIP[/h3]



[h2]Updated Achievement Icons[/h2]

Sketchman worked on updating achievement icons.

[h3]Updated Achievement Icons[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

JJosh continued working on the Celebrations NPC.

Lifeless returned to Virus: Theme Park, working on the layout blockout.

Madmijk continued working on condo instruments.

Nuclearxpotato continued working on Virus: Altar, modeling the temple exterior and creating props.

Sketchman continued working on improvements to the AI system as well as fixing some bugs.

Wheezwer worked on concept art for Halloween Items, as well as concept art for the Central Circuit NPC.

Will continued working on music for SDNL.

[h3]Plaza: New Metal Detector Model[/h3]



[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since July 25th, 2022 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!

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! 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

Fish and earn double EXP during this weekend event starting this Friday and ending on Monday. There's also a bunch of more rare fish swimming around for you to catch this weekend as well!

Tower Unite will occasionally feature events that multiply your rewards for playing the game! Have fun fishing and stay tuned for further events!


Summer characters are visiting now, along with the return of summer classic minigames such as Booze Bash!


Work continues on Casino Phase 2, one of our largest updates to the Casino yet! We are on the final stretch with development and we can't wait to get the update out soon. We plan to have a public beta of Casino Phase 2 before it's officially launched, so stay tuned on our Discord! https://discord.gg/pixeltail




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 July 25th, 2022, detailing all the changes that have happened since July 18th, 2022. 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]Accessibility Suggestions[/h2]
We've created a forum post asking the community for suggestions on how we can improve gameplay for players with certain conditions such as colorblindness, dyslexia, or anything else that might affect a players ability to use the standard presentation and controls of the game.

If you have any ideas or suggestions, and possible solutions on how to solve a particular issue, please check out the forum post here.

[h2]Casino: Phase 2[/h2]
Work continues on the next phase of the Casino.

macdguy finished up work on Bingo, getting the logic, screen, gameplay, betting, and rewards systems finished. He also worked on updating the "Game Helper" UI from the Arcade so that it can be used anywhere in the Plaza.

Will continued working on music and sounds for the Casino.

[h3]Casino: Bingo Gameplay WIP[/h3]



[h3]Casino: Game Helper UI WIP[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

Johanna finished working on Virus: Corrosion. She also continued working on SDNL: Frostbite.

JJosh continued working on the Celebrations NPC.

Lifeless continued working on SDNL: Hinderance.

Madmijk continued working on condo instruments. He also worked on Keyboard Localization, so the game can auto convert keyboard layouts (such as AZERTY to QWERTY). For non-latin character keyboards, the system will also represent these characters on key prompts.

Nuclearxpotato continued working on Virus: Altar, converting parts of the blockout into actual meshes. He also worked on a new Condo fan item.

Sketchman continued working on improvements to the AI system.

Wheezwer worked on concept art for the Fresh NPC and other store NPCs.

Will continued working on music for SDNL.

[h3]Condo: New Fan Item WIP[/h3]

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[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since July 18th, 2022 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!

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! 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

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for July 18th, 2022, detailing all the changes that have happened since July 11th, 2022. 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]Accessibility Suggestions[/h2]
We've created a forum post asking the community for suggestions on how we can improve gameplay for players with certain conditions such as colorblindness, dyslexia, or anything else that might affect a players ability to use the standard presentation and controls of the game.

If you have any ideas or suggestions, and possible solutions on how to solve a particular issue, please check out the forum post here.

[h2]June 2022 Condo Contest CONCLUDED[/h2]
The results of the community vote are in!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the vote!

The winners are:

1st Place - 2,000,000 Units - @MuffinLink
2nd Place - 1,000,000 Units - @Fire
3rd Place - 375,000 Units Each - @Caleb and WingSilent
4th Place - 500,000 Units - @EMEUTIER
5th Place - 300,000 Units - @colin26

All participants also received 130,000 units!

You can view all of the entries here.

[h2]Casino: Phase 2[/h2]
Work continues on the next phase of the Casino.

macdguy fixed several bugs with Roulette and Silver Saddles. He added 3D bet indicators to Silver Saddles for better tracking of horse bets. He also continued working on Bingo, making the final touches. The Spin 2 Win second wheel had its graphics finished and item reward code completed.

Will continued working on music and sounds for Silver Saddles.

[h3]Upcoming Spin 2 Win Wheel #2 Items WIP[/h3]



[h2]Virus: Corrosion[/h2]

Johanna continued working on the new Virus map, Corrosion. The sound pass has been completed and the map is getting the final stage of polish before release.

[h3]Virus: Corrosion WIP[/h3]



[h2]SDNL: Frostbite[/h2]

Johanna continued working on the art pass for the SDNL map, Frostbite.

[h3]SDNL: Frostbite EARLY WIP[/h3]



[h2]New Items, Media Player Settings, and Condo I/O[/h2]

Two new Media Player items will be added to a future update, a Catsack Head TV (found via Catsacks), and a Broken TV (found via Fishing).

Media Players now have new settings, allowing the player to change the saturation, turn on/off Scanlines, and adjust glare. The new TV items will have some of these settings on or off by default, but they're adjustable in the item settings.

Persistent Connections for Condo I/O is completed. Shown in previous developer logs, this feature allows the player to connect items together in unique ways. Unlike event based connections, such as a button press, persistent connections feed data directly into another item, such as the video output of the Security Camera into a Media Player.

Finally, we've revamped our internal item settings system to allow us to more easily add small settings to individual items with low impact to development time. For example, the additional settings added to the Trampoline below took less than 3 minutes to add. This new system will also help reduce bugs as they're automatically supported by the Copycat and Undo tools. Over time, we will be slowly porting over items to the new system.

[h3]Catsack Head TV WIP[/h3]



[h3]Broken TV WIP[/h3]



[h3]Media Player Settings (Saturation, Scanlines, Glare)[/h3]



[h3]Condo I/O: Persistent Connections[/h3]



[h3]New Internal Item Setting System: Trampoline[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

JJosh continued working on the Celebrations NPC.

Lifeless continued working on SDNL: Hinderance.

Madmijk continued working on condo instruments.

Sketchman started working on improvements to the AI system.

Nuclearxpotato continued working on Virus: Altar.

Wheezwer worked on concept art for the Fresh NPC.

Will continued working on music for SDNL.

[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since July 11th, 2022 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!

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! 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

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for July 11th, 2022, detailing all the changes that have happened since July 5th, 2022. 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]Accessibility Suggestions[/h2]
We've created a forum post asking the community for suggestions on how we can improve gameplay for players with certain conditions such as colorblindness, dyslexia, or anything else that might affect a players ability to use the standard presentation and controls of the game.

If you have any ideas or suggestions, and possible solutions on how to solve a particular issue, please check out the forum post here.

[h2]June 2022 Condo Contest NOW VOTING![/h2]
Hey everyone!

It's time for another Condo Contest. The objective for this contest is to make an area for a media player!

Whether it's a drive-in, a cozy living room, a theater, or a TV floating in space- your entry just needs to be a cool spot to hang out and use a media player.

First prize wins 2,000,000 units!

The community vote is now open.

Voting ends July 14th, 2022 at 11:59 PM CT.

Learn how to vote here.

[h2]Casino: Phase 2[/h2]
Work continues on the next phase of the Casino.

macdguy fixed some bugs found during an internal playtest. He's continuing to work on "Silver Saddles" and Bingo.

Sketchman worked on art for the new Casino achievements.

Will worked on music and sounds for "Silver Saddles" and Bingo.

[h3]Casino: New Achievement Icons[/h3]



[h2]Virus: Altar[/h2]

Nuclearxpotato continued working on Virus: Altar. He fixed some issue noticed in the first internal playtest, while also adding more detail to the map.

[h3]Virus: Altar WIP[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

Johanna continued working on Virus: Corrosion and SDNL: Frostbite.

JJosh continued working on the Celebrations NPC.

Lifeless continued working on SDNL: Hinderance.

macdguy fixed some bugs with Virus and Ball Race. He also continued working on Condo I/O features.

Madmijk continued working on condo instruments.

Sketchman continued working on adding Discord Rich Presence functionality.

Wheezwer continued working on Steam Trading Cards and Badges.

Will continued working on music for SDNL.

[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since July 5th, 2022 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!

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! 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