Tower Unite News

The Dark Voyage: Hot Fix

This update addresses several bugs from the new update.

Changes

Dark Voyage: Improved legibility of scores on the screens
Dark Voyage: Reduced volume of other player's guns
Dark Voyage: Increased hit box size of the pop up ghosts
Dark Voyage: Increased hit box size of the minecart ghosts
Dark Voyage: Increased hit box size of the flying hell demons
Rolling pets now sit with you if you are in a seat

Bug Fixes

Dark Voyage: Fixed pop up targets sometimes being up before they even pop up
Dark Voyage: Fixed doors often not opening
Dark Voyage: Fixed a hole in the Plaza

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The Dark Voyage (0.16.3.0)

THE DARK VOYAGE IS NOW OPEN!

The Dark Voyage
Now open! Experience an interactive dark shooting ride that takes you on a journey through time and monsters! Enter your time vehicle with up to 4 others and face off against the terrors that await you in various corrupted locations. This ride is a permanent attraction.

Haunted ghouls and ghosts try to spook your face off in this adventurous and dangerous ride that is set to chill your bones to dust.

Hit targets with your blaster to rack up points to contribute to a group total, and compare scores with friends! With a sharp eye and good aim, you may even uncover hidden secrets.

Extension of Halloween Events
We'll be extending out the Halloween events for another week. We've added a few new items to the Halloween Ghoulcery store to unlock. This is also your last chance this year to earn ghoul coins and get the newly updated Ghoulish Spender achievement!

Changes

Added the Dark Voyage (Shooting Interactive Dark Ride)
Added Used Cleaver, Used Hatchet, Used Machete, and Decorative Remains to the Ghoulcery
Added Second-Hand Axe, Second-Hand Machete, Melty Candle, Wall-Mounted Bell, Gas Lantern, Prop Barrel, Prop Crate to Rob's Imports
Added Campfire, Firewood to the Seasons nature store
Added Spikeboard to the DIY store
Condo: You can now drag grouped items with standard drag/drop
Condo: Added group copy support to Copycat. When you copycat a group, it'll also keep it as a group on duplication
Condo: Alt-drag group copying now regroups the copied group together so it stays as a group on duplicate
Plaza: Ghoulcery now has categories for each year
Plaza: Map boards now have maps on both sides
Plaza: Halloween remains spawn amount increased from 10 to 20
Ghoulish Spender achievement now only requires 20 items for it to be unlocked
Condo: Physics items no longer simulate physics on respawn by default, with a setting to override that and simulate physics on respawn
Updated Collection Book navigation tabs to be more visually distinct when they are active
Arcade - Sunlight Roller: Increased the texture resolution for Sunlight Roller's cabinet art
Arcade - Candy Slam: Tweaked Candy Slam's target materials to be more readable/clear
Condo: New Barrel item model
Condo: Reduced lights on Billiards table

Bug Fixes

Plaza: Fixed several fast travel teleports not working
Plaza: Fixed remains sometimes spawning in the stairs leading to the maze
Plaza - Halloween: Fixed remains spawning inside the haunted maze's staircase
Arcade: Fixed wrong collision in coin pushers
Arcade - Little Birde Feeders: Fixed collisions not always toggling on when playing
Arcade - Avalanche: Fixed cats being colored wrong
Arcade - Avalanche: Fixed cat hit animations not playing properly
Arcade - Gears of Coin: Fixed coin not always falling down the funnel
Arcade - Dragon's Treasure: Removed extra giant peg that was intersecting with one of the Dragon's Treasure machines
Arcade: Fixed Cold Slushy cups having no textures
ZM - Gasoline: Fixed missing gasoline pumps and sign
Minigolf - Kingdom: Fixed an area that would not correctly mark the player as out of bounds
Virus - Corrosion: Fixed spawn points intersecting with map geometry
Virus - Corrosion: Fixed several collision issues
Virus - Subway: Improved post processing effects that would cause certain weapons to look without color
Virus - Hospital: Fixed chairs being made of entirely wood
Condo: Fixed Turkey item not replicating to other clients
Plaza: Fixed a collision issue with the dueling arena building
Fixed a bug with collection book when switching between Arcade/Fishing categories if you were inside the list of items when switching categories
Condo: Workshop NPC models no longer t-pose/unset on condo reload

Optimizations

Plaza: Optimized reflection capture maps. Decreased memory footprint from ~360MB to ~80MB, and removed redundant or extra capture points
Plaza: Removed redundant fog particles from the Halloween Plaza to increase performance
Optimized the materials/draw calls on the devil pet, flying skull pet, UFO pet, flaming skull pet, flying sun pet, and the angel pet
Reduced drawcalls (optimization) for the rope fence, dock lamp, and tall standing candle lamp
Optimized various pet materials
Optimized several condo items
Optimized Halloween maze

Weekly Dev Log for November 14th, 2022

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for November 14th, 2022, detailing all the changes that have happened since October 31st, 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]Dark Voyage[/h2]
We're working hard on getting "Dark Voyage", the shooting interactive dark ride, ready for release. We're aiming for sometime this week provided everything goes well.

macdguy continued working on "Dark Voyage". He finished up the events and is working on getting the ride ready for release.

Madmijk continued working on "Dark Voyage", making sure the carts perform their duties correctly.

[h2]Virus: Altar[/h2]

Nuclearxpotato worked on replacing the block out with terraces and cliff faces. He also worked on the serpent tunnels in the back of the map.

[h3]Virus: Altar WIP[/h3]

[h2]Condo: Item Grouping[/h2]

macdguy worked on support for grouping items together in the Condo, so that many objects can be moved around at the same time.

[h3]Condo: Item Group Demo[/h3]

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[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

JJosh continued working on the new Plaza Store NPCs, working on the Electronics Store NPC.

Lifeless continued working on game world maps.

macdguy continued working on Condo I/O, and added controller support to the Graphics Settings Menu.

Sketchman worked on backend improvements and fixes.

Wheezwer worked on UI icons for the emotes.

Will continued working on music and sounds for SDNL.

[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since October 31st, 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

Weekly Dev Log for October 31st, 2022

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for October 31st, 2022, detailing all the changes that have happened since October 24th, 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]October 2022 Condo Contest OVER[/h2]
Thanks again to everyone who participated in the vote.

There were 130 responses this time, and votes were very spread out between participants!

The winners of the community vote are:

1st Place - @medai, Lolo-Chan, Nykane Mundoe, CorpseCutieDana
2nd Place - @Baby_In_A_Pipe
3rd Place - @Tut.exe
4th Place - @Assault

Because the vote was so spread out this time, and there were so many amazing entries, we wanted to highlight some of the exceptional Condos that didn't place in the community vote.

These highlighted condo builders will receive 400,000 Units in addition to the 100,000 Unit participation prize.

The staff highlights include:

For Theming:
@CalculatorSpoon - Abducted

For Storytelling:
@Frasler - Fyrstaden

For Unique Gameplay:
@fruzstrated - The Midnight Faire

Honorable Mentions:
@TheGreenKing - Horror Towers
@GoopGoop - Castle Pixelwick

You can read all of the entries submitted for this contest here.

[h2]Halloween[/h2]
We're working hard on getting "Dark Voyage", the shooting interactive dark ride, ready for release.

Johanna continued working on getting the Plaza setup and ready for "Dark Voyage".

macdguy continued working on "Dark Voyage". He finished adding targets and events to the Western and Hell sections, while continuing to work on the Mansion section. He also worked on finishing the gameplay logic, the game coordinator, along with designing sound ambience / musical events in the ride.

Madmijk continued working on "Dark Voyage", finishing the cart logic and other related tasks.

Nuclearxpotato worked on adding more Halloween items.

Wheezwer continued working on signage for "Dark Voyage".

Will worked on music and sounds for "Dark Voyage".

[h3]Halloween: Spikeboard Item[/h3]

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[h3]Halloween: More Items WIP[/h3]

[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

JJosh continued working on the new Plaza Store NPCs, working on the Electronics Store NPC.

Lifeless continued working on game world maps.

macdguy fixed some bugs and continued working on VR support.

Nuclearxpotato continued working on the Virus map, Altar.

Sketchman worked on backend improvements and fixes.

Wheezwer worked on UI icons for the emotes.

Will continued working on music and sounds for SDNL.

[h3]Emote UI Icons WIP[/h3]

[h3]Electronics Store NPC WIP[/h3]

[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since October 24th, 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

Weekly Dev Log for October 24th, 2022

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for October 24th, 2022, detailing all the changes that have happened since October 17th, 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]October 2022 Condo Contest ENDING SOON[/h2]
It's Halloween month, so it's time to open up the submission period for the Halloween Condo Contest!

As usual, feel free to interpret that however you like! Whether you make a secret lab, grave yard, haunted mansion, or a fun Halloween party, anything goes as long as its related to the Halloween spirit! First prize is 2,000,000 units!

Learn how to participate here!

CONTEST ENDS OCTOBER 26th!!!

[h2]Halloween[/h2]
With the Halloween events out, we're now entirely focused on getting the Shooting Gallery ride ready for release.

Johanna continued working on the Halloween plaza and working on the shooting gallery ride.

macdguy continued working on the shooting gallery ride, working on targets and getting a name figured out. He also worked on planning the queue system.

Madmijk continued working on the shooting gallery ride, working on targets among other things.

Will worked on music and sounds for the shooting gallery ride.

[h3]Shooting Gallery Ride Logo WIP[/h3]

[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

Johanna continued working on Plaza optimizations.

Lifeless continued working on game world maps.

macdguy fixed some bugs and continued working on VR support.

Nuclearxpotato continued working on the Virus map, Altar.

Sketchman worked on backend improvements and fixes.

Wheezwer worked on UI icons for the emotes.

[h3]Emote UI Icons WIP[/h3]

[h3]Updated Barrel Model[/h3]

[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since October 17th, 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