Tower Unite News

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Tower Unite Dev Log!

[h2]Cosmic Catsack Makeship Plushie![/h2]



Bring the cosmos home with the neverending mystery of the Cosmic Catsack! Gaze into the abyss of its eyes and find a friend... or the comfort of space-time!

The campaign will be up for a limited time (18 days left!), so check out the store page to see how it all works and get one for yourself!

These limited time plushies go directly towards supporting our developers!

Check out the Makeship page here!

[h2]Humble Bundle: Madcap Multiplayer Missions[/h2]



Tower Unite is part of the Madcap Multiplayer Missions Humble Bundle supporting the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Check it out here!

[h2]Halloween 2024 Condo Contest[/h2]



Hey everyone!

It’s time again for the Halloween Condo Contest!

The theme is Halloween, so make a Condo or Game World Map that fits the spooky season! Whether that’s a haunted house full of scares or a festive and cozy Halloween party, as long as it’s in the Halloween spirit, we want to see it!

Note: Your submission can be something made any time, as long as it hasn’t been submitted to a previous contest (or, if it has been submitted, has been significantly updated).

The submission period ends on October 23rd, 2024 at 11:59 PM CT.

Be sure to look at the prizes and follow the rules here.

[h2]Halloween[/h2]



Last week, we released Update 0.18.2.0, which brought with it the 2024 Halloween Events!

You can checkout everything released with that update here!

We also worked on a few patches to fix issues discovered after the initial release, and are working on more to iron out all the bugs.

[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

Johanna continued working on a bunch of fixes and optimizations for the Plaza.

Joshua continued working on one of the new player models.

Lifeless continued working on the Zombie Massacre map, Escape.

macdguy released the Halloween update, and worked on bug fixes for the Halloween update.

Nuclearxpotato continued working on the Minigolf map, Dino Drive.

Sketchman worked on fixing bugs with the Halloween update.

Wheezwer worked on art for various projects.

Will continued working on music for SDNL.

[h3]Minigolf: Dino Drive Iguanodon obstacle[/h3]



[h2]That’s a Wrap![/h2]
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!

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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.

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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

If you like our game and want to support development, please consider getting a Supporter Pack:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2792910/Tower_Unite__Supporter_Pack

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/announcements/weekly-dev-logs/65

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

IT’S BEGUN!


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


Bring the cosmos home with the neverending mystery of the Cosmic Catsack! Gaze into the abyss of its eyes and find a friend... or the comfort of space-time!


The campaign will be up for a limited time (20 days), so check out the store page to see how it all works and get one for yourself! These limited time plushies go directly towards supporting our developers!


We hope you like this plush, and as always, we cannot thank you enough for supporting us and we can't wait to bring you more fun in the future!

Our Halloween events have begun! Enjoy the Halloween festivities and fun as well as some new items that can be found at the Ghoulcery at the center fountain!

We have plans to dish out more Halloween fun in an upcoming update as well!

Ghoul Coins

Earn ghoul coins to exchange for Halloween items! You can earn ghoul coins by playing Plaza minigames or Game Worlds, Prehistoric Remains, as well as in the Arcade and through Fishing!


Prehistoric Remains

Collect Prehistoric Remains and put them in the Cauldron. You can earn various items and some of the new items with the remains!




The Cosmic Catsack Plush Campaign with Makeship has started and will be up for a limited time!🎊 Check out the campaign and order one for yourself here:


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





Ghoulcery Store

• Batmask
  
• Carnivorous Plant
  
• Spooky Pipe Organ
  
• Cocoadaemon
  
• Exoplanetary Hatcrab
  
• Hatcrab
  
• Flying Broomstick (Witchy)
  
• Flying Eyeball Pet
  
• Following Sigil
  
• Holdable Ragged Torch
  
• Melted Candle Hat
  
• Necronomicon
  
• Necronomicon (Canvas)
  
• Personal Blood Cloud
  
• Personal Storm Cloud
  
• Swarm of Witches
  
• Throwable Rotten Tomato
  
• Toadstool Cap
  
• Trail of Flames
  
• Plush Hatcrab
  
• Plush Exoplanetary Hatcrab
  
• The Galvanizer SR1031
  
• Player Profile Backgrounds
  
• Pumpkin Background
  
• Bone Background
  
• Cat Background
  
• Princess Cat Background
  
• Ghost Background
  
• Orange Background
  
• Purple Background
  
• Halloween 2024 Background
  

Celebrations

• Throwable Tomato
  
• Holdable Ornate Torch
  
• Holdable Candy Bucket

Tower Threads

• The Galvanizer

Songbirds

• Victorian Pipe Organ

Fresh

• Pineapple

New ways to customize yourself have been added - profile backgrounds!

These profile backgrounds decorate your scoreboard profile throughout the game. This Halloween, we have exclusive Halloween only profile backgrounds. We plan to add more non-Halloween profile backgrounds in the future!

To equip your profile backgrounds, go to Appearance > Profile > Scoreboard > Background.




Hot bar had some improvements with a new feature that allows you to toggle weapons and potions. You can toggle holster your weapon by pressing the corresponding key on the hot bar for your equipped weapons, and you can toggle size potion effects on your potions as well!


Pluck-a-Pal was completely redone. The game is now 100% physics driven and the plushies no longer are inside capsules, which brings a more authentic crane game experience. We also fixed many, many bugs with it!




Billiards now has improved physics for pocketing, and lots of fixes!




A new Condo builder feature - one that has been requested many times is now available! Media Volume is a new IO Volume that builders can use to automatically toggle on Mediaplayers when players are within the volume. You can set these volumes up by connecting a Mediaplayer to the Media Volume with the Tower Glove.





In an effort to provide a safer environment for our players, we have added a Mature Only condo filter feature.

By default, condos that have certain words/tags in their title will be tagged as mature. They will be hidden by default.




When enabled, they will have a Mature Tag assigned.



When you go to host your condo, there's a new tag button to enable the Mature Content tag, which appends "18+" to the condo title.

Please be advised, if you host your Condo with mature content without applying the tag, you may be subject to moderation actions. Please use the mature content tags appropriately. Some keywords that will mark your condo as Mature Only are: 18+, NSFW, 21+, Mature. We also have a built-in list of keywords that will automatically mark your Condo, these keywords will be expanded in further updates.






We’ve added the ability to more easily remove objects from groups! This allows you to remove single items from your group without having to break the entire group apart.





Changes

• Start of Halloween 2024!
  
• Added Halloween Player Profile Backgrounds
  
• Arcade: Pluck-a-Pal Redo
  
• Weapon items now can be holstered/unholstered by pressing the hot key they reside in
  
• Size Potions now can be toggled by pressing the hot bar key they reside in
  
• You can now leave equipped vehicles with Leave Drivable key bind (default Left CTRL)
  
• Added sound effects when equipping Size Potions (clientside only)
  
• Added new Media Volume to Condo IO. Connect a media player to this volume and it will automatically turn on the media player for players who are within this volume. Players can individually disable this feature in the settings
  
• Condo: Added new space skybox condo materials
  
• Condo/SDK: Added "Remove From Group" to right click item properties, allowing you to remove individual items from a group
  

Plaza Bug Fixes

• Plaza - Billiards: Fixed various major billiards issues such as: balls not spawning, camera getting stuck in the ground / origin, etc.
  
• Plaza - Billiards: Improved pocketing, the balls now properly fall into pockets instead of floating above them or bouncing back on to the table and disappearing
  
• Plaza: Fixed milestone weapons (such as flamethrower) not doing their shoot effects after respawning in Plaza
  
• Plaza: Fixed Toy Store planes not having a wire holding them up
  
• Pluck-a-Pal: Fixed pluck-a-pal dropping item lagging
  
• Pluck-a-Pal: Crane now has physics to it (sways and swings)
  
• Pluck-a-Pal: Improved physics and friction handling
  
• Pluck-a-Pal: Removed the need for plushies to be inside orbs
  
• Pluck-a-Pal: Rework of networking
  
• Pluck-a-Pal: Fixed game not clearing prizes within the prize area sometimes
  
• Pluck-a-Pal: Fixed prizes dropping into prize area then teleporting back
  
• Pluck-a-Pal: Fixed prizes spawning immediately after prize awarded
  

Game World Bug Fixes

• Little Crusaders: Fixed issues where players would be invisible or not spawn in properly
  
• Little Crusaders: Fixed dragon light not turning off when the dragon was killed
  
• SDNL: Fixed chainsaw not always exploding on impact and spinning mid-air
  
• SDNL: Fixed hatchet not hitting players
  
• Ball Race: Fixed shoulder width player model metadata not always applying
  
• Ball Race: Fixed empty leaderboard UI showing up on custom maps that aren't payout approved
  
• Ball Race SDK: Fixed rails and tube collisions not working on ball race spline item
  
• Accelerate: Fixed various game music issues
  
• Minigolf - Sweet Tooth: Fixed hole cameras for hole 2 and 7
  
• Minigolf - Kingdom: Fixed hole cameras for a few holes
  
• ZM: Fixed pausing in singleplayer breaking game timers
  
• ZM: Fixed camera intros not playing on custom maps
  
• ZM SDK: Fixed spawn IO event spawning the previous zombie type
  

Condo Bug Fixes

• Condo: Fixed several mouse input lock issues with inventory
  
• Condo: Fixed Canvas Flags not re-applying their flag speeds properly
  
• Condo: Fixed having to double click gizmo toggle, reset, and lock scale buttons
  
• Condo IO: Fixed Canvas Button not doing delays properly
  
• Condo IO: Fixed counter not passing activator across properly which would cause %name%, etc. not to work
  

UI Bug Fixes

• Fixed settings description sidebar clearing setting information often when it shouldn't
  
• Fixed bottom left media player volume popup fading out even while you have the Q menu open (it should always stay on while Q is held)
  
• Fixed map fast travel keeping the scoreboard up after traveling (now it will close automatically)
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various issues with text hats not showing up for yourself
  
• Fixed Steam VR inputs getting grabbed on setting keybinds, causing binding issues for keyboard input

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

If you love our game and want to support its development, please consider getting a Supporter Pack! We'd be so grateful!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2792910/Tower_Unite__Supporter_Pack

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/announcements/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 this week’s Tower Unite Dev Log!

[h2]Cosmic Catsack Makeship Plushie Giveaway![/h2]



Our Cosmic Catsack Plush Campaign with Makeship is starting this Thursday (October 17th) at 2PM ET, so we’re back again to do another giveaway!

You can enter from NOW until Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 at 2PM (ET).

Once the entry period is over, we’ll use a random number generator to select 2 winners!

Check out the forum thread for more information!

[h2]Humble Bundle: Madcap Multiplayer Missions[/h2]



Tower Unite is part of the Madcap Multiplayer Missions Humble Bundle supporting the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Check it out here!

[h2]15,000 Reviews![/h2]



We've recently surpassed 15,000 reviews on Steam! We're so grateful for all of the feedback from you all, and reviews have always been a great way for us to see people's interests in the game!

[h2]Halloween 2024 Condo Contest[/h2]



Hey everyone!

It’s time again for the Halloween Condo Contest!

The theme is Halloween, so make a Condo or Game World Map that fits the spooky season! Whether that’s a haunted house full of scares or a festive and cozy Halloween party, as long as it’s in the Halloween spirit, we want to see it!

Note: Your submission can be something made any time, as long as it hasn’t been submitted to a previous contest (or, if it has been submitted, has been significantly updated).

The submission period ends on October 23rd, 2024 at 11:59 PM CT.

Be sure to look at the prizes and follow the rules here.

[h2]Halloween[/h2]

We've been busy wrapping up this next update, bringing with it the beginning of the Halloween events!

Joshua worked on some items for Halloween.

macdguy worked on the upcoming items, and preparing the update for release.

Nuclearxpotato worked on implementing the new items.

[h3]Halloween: Witch Broom[/h3]

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[h3]Halloween: Carnivorous Plant[/h3]

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[h2]Condo: Mature Only Filter[/h2]

In an effort to provide a safer environment for our players, we have added a Mature Only condo filter feature.

By default, condos that have certain words/tags in their title will be tagged as mature. They will be hidden by default.



When enabled, they will have a Mature Tag assigned.



When you go to host your condo, there's a new tag button to enable the Mature Content tag, which appends "18+" to the condo title.



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

Johanna continued working on a bunch of fixes and optimizations for the Plaza.

Joshua continued working on one of the new player models.

Lifeless continued working on the Zombie Massacre map, Escape.

macdguy fixed long standing issues with Billiards physics now that Sketchman's networking improvements made the game actually playable again. He also finished up the new Pluck-a-pal physics, fixed bugs with the Ball Race SDK, created a Media Volume item, improvements to the hot bar, and more.

Nuclearxpotato continued working on the Minigolf map, Dino Drive and a T-Rex skeleton prop.

Sketchman worked on a major networking improvement affecting large swatches of the game as well as the Arcade, which fixed a bunch of small and weird long standing issues (such as in Little Crusaders, Billiards, Tornado, etc), as well as the Arcade's new physics system.

Wheezwer worked on art for various projects and setup the Makeship giveaway.

Will continued working on music for SDNL.

[h3]New Masculine Player Model WIP[/h3]

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
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[h3]Condo: Remove from Group[/h3]


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[h3]Plaza: Billiards Fixed with Improved Physics[/h3]

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

[h3]Plaza/Condo: Hot Bar Improvements[/h3]

You can now toggle weapons/potions by pressing their hot bar key again to toggle them.

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
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[h3]Minigolf: Dino Drive T-Rex Skeleton[/h3]



[h2]That’s a Wrap![/h2]
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!

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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.

---

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

If you like our game and want to support development, please consider getting a Supporter Pack:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2792910/Tower_Unite__Supporter_Pack

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/announcements/weekly-dev-logs/65

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 this week’s Tower Unite Dev Log!

[h2]Halloween 2024 Condo Contest[/h2]



Hey everyone!

It’s time again for the Halloween Condo Contest!

The theme is Halloween, so make a Condo or Game World Map that fits the spooky season! Whether that’s a haunted house full of scares or a festive and cozy Halloween party, as long as it’s in the Halloween spirit, we want to see it!

Note: Your submission can be something made any time, as long as it hasn’t been submitted to a previous contest (or, if it has been submitted, has been significantly updated).

The submission period ends on October 23rd, 2024 at 11:59 PM CT.

Be sure to look at the prizes and follow the rules here.

[h2]Minigolf: Dino Drive[/h2]

Nuclearxpotato continued working on Dino Drive.

Dino Drive is divided into two distinct halves: an outdoor putt-putt minigolf course, and an interior monster golf area.

[h3]Minigolf: Dino Drive WIP[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

Johanna worked on a bunch of fixes and optimizations for the Plaza, including finishing the Casino building's exterior.

Joshua continued working on upcoming Halloween items.

Lifeless continued working on the Zombie Massacre map, Escape, while also fixing various bugs in other game world maps.

macdguy worked on fixing long standing bugs and issues, such as bugs with the UI, ZM and RC cars. He also worked on a Radio system for enabling internet radio streaming, halloween items, a new water system, and profile backgrounds.

Sketchman worked on fixing issues with networking and the Arcade.

Wheezwer worked on the calendar for October, setting up the Condo Contest, and re-doing artwork for the Patreon page.

Will continued working on music for SDNL.

[h3]Profile Backgrounds WIP[/h3]

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

[h3]New Water System WIP[/h3]

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

[h2]That’s a Wrap![/h2]
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!

---

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.

---

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

If you like our game and want to support development, please consider getting a Supporter Pack:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2792910/Tower_Unite__Supporter_Pack

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/announcements/weekly-dev-logs/65

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