Tower Unite News

This update addresses several bugs from the new update.

We are working with Steam on inventory, EXP, and achievement related issues.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed EXP not being given out properly for the Halloween minigames
  
• Fixed Chain String not having collision
  
• Fixed Skull item collision being just a box
  
• Fixed Eyeball Stalk not scaling properly with gizmos
  
• Fixed Fire FX item not saving its color
  
• Fixed gravestone sign and tooth items not replicating

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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

The plaza is decked out for another spooky Halloween event!
Enjoy the haunted festivities by collecting remains, finding bones, and unlocking various Halloween exclusive items. Be sure to check out the Ghoulcery, because it is back again with new items for you to spend your Ghoul Coins on. And, if you search the coast line, you’ll see that a maze has once again surfaced to be explored!


Last year we added various Halloween-exclusive achievements, EXP, and milestones, and they're back again this year. Participate in new quests and scavenger hunts throughout the plaza to earn them, and be sure to check them out in your collection book, too! You can earn Halloween EXP for participating in Halloween events such as Halloween minigames, collecting candy or remains, completing Halloween achievements, and completing Halloween quests!

As you increase your Halloween EXP, you can unlock Halloween milestones such as throwable blood wine and a drivable Minecart!


While playing games in Tower Unite during this year's Halloween event, you'll earn Ghoul Coins. These coins can be redeemed in the Plaza for Halloween items. You can earn them by playing Plaza minigames or Game Worlds. This year you can earn Ghoul Coins at the Arcade and through Fishing!




The Plaza minigames have not been left out of the Halloween fun. Participate in the Ghost Hunting and Pumpkin Smash minigames on the Event platform, and you uncover a lot of pumpkins along the way!

• Added to the Ghoulcery store: Throwable Test Tube, Alien Backpack, Test Tube Hat, Candy Backpack, SombrerUFO, The Experiment's Head, Bones Hat, Tinfoil Hat, Bubble Helmet, Gelatin Cube, Candy Particles, Blood-stained Hockey Mask, Alien Glasses, Scarecrow Hat, Ballerina Tutu, Scifi Filter Visor, Detective Hat, Moustache, Crow on Shoulder, Crow Plush, Abduction, Candy Bucket Hat, Angel Plush, Devil Plush, Angel Pet, Devil Pet, Eternal Questioning Angel and Devil, and the Spooky Wowozela!
  
• Available only from Halloween events: Candy Cane, Candy Bar, Candy Corn, Blue Cake Pop, Pink Cake Pop, Mint Cake Pop, Chocolate Milk, Cinnamon Stick, Gummie, Hot Chocolate, Ice Cream, Pumpkin Pie, Blue Rock Candy, Green Rock Candy, Pink Rock Candy, Waffle Cone, Peppermint Lollipop, Gem Pop, Round Lollipop, Flat Lollipop, Aesthetic Chips
  
• Added to the Appearance store: Hockey Mask
  
• Added to the Celebrations store: Wooden Test Tube Rack, Plastic Test Tube Rack, Chains, Eyeball Stalk, Fire, Gravestone Sign, Tooth
  
• Added to the Ball Race Upgrades store: Anime Ball Race Ball

We've been hard at work adding improvements to the condo building system and this update includes a powerful new tool - multi-select! Now you can hold down shift and select multiple items at once with the gizmo system, and drag, rotate, and even copy items all at once with the alt-drag feature! Got a desk with 15 screens on it? With multi-select you can select your desk, all 15 screens and move it into another room all without ruining their positions.



Be on the look out for more Halloween updates coming later towards the end of this month!




Changes

• New Halloween 2021 items available at the Ghoulcery Store
  
• Multi-select! Select multiple items and move them with the gizmos! You can also copy the selection with the drag copy feature
  
• Laser Projector optimizations
  
• Condo: While gizmos are open, surface editing will be disabled to avoid confusion
  
• Condo: Moved drag copy to the alt key (was shift key) to prevent accidental copying with the new multi-select
  
• Condo: Gizmos no longer lose input when dragging over other UI elements (such as the inventory UI)
  
• Condo: While dragging a gizmo, the mouse will now infinitely loop around the screen, allowing you to keep dragging for as long as you need to
  
• Condo: Gizmos now scale up/down based on camera position, keeping them a steady constant size on the screen at all times
  
• Condo: You no longer can open edit menu (with middle click) on locked items

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bonfire items not having customizable light colors and settings
  
• Fixed bonfire showing use prompt even when you didn't have permission
  
• Fixed issues with Planetary Piano inputs getting dropped
  
• Fixed the Book Pile 2 item not being available in Rob's imports
  
• Ball Race: Fixed moving platform desyncs between players in Nimbus
  
• Ball Race: Fixed moving platform desyncs between players in Oasis
  
• Fixed workshop player models sometimes assigning to workshop condo items
  
• Fixed NPC models defaulting to workshop mode when setting as a non-workshop model
  
• Fixed several weapon items not being disabled by the no weapon milestone condo permission
  
• Fixed the floating items not being synced with other clients (now float the same for everyone)
  
• Fixed Kitchen Tiles world align material
  
• Fixed candle draw distance being incredibly small

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 11th, 2021, detailing all the changes that have happened since October 4th, 2021. 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]August / September 2021 Survey Results![/h2]
Thank you again to everyone who participated in our survey. We had a whopping 6,700+ responses!

You can view the results of this survey here.

[h2]October 2021 Halloween Condo Contest BEGINS![/h2]
As we've done in the past, the theme for October's contest is Halloween!

Feel free to interpret that how you like, whether that means making a haunted forest maze, a creepy basement, a chill Halloween party, or anything else, so long as it follows the rules and reasonably suits the theme.

The contest ends on October 27th, 2021, at 11:59 PM CT.

View the contest rules here!

[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]Halloween Events[/h2]
Work is finishing up on the next update, which will include the return of the Halloween Events with new Halloween Items, as well as other bug fixes and improvements.

You can read everything planned for this update here.

[h2]Plaza: Shooting Gallery Ride[/h2]
Johanna continued working on the shooting gallery ride, focusing on the basement of the Spooky Mansion as well as the Hell dimension.

Wheezwer continued working on the paintings for the shooting gallery ride, as well as making the targets.

[h3]Plaza: Shooting Gallery Ride WIP[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

JJosh started working on the other Bowling NPC.

Lifeless continued working on the new Little Crusaders map.

macdguy continued working on coding the shooting gallery ride, as well as getting then next update ready for release.

madmijk continued working on adding MIDI support.

Sketchman continued working on the Gizmo improvements.

[h3]MIDI Support Demo WIP[/h3]

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

[h3]Other Bowling NPC Early WIP[/h3]



[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since October 4th, 2021 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 October 4th, 2021, detailing all the changes that have happened since September 27th, 2021. 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]August / September 2021 Survey Results![/h2]
Thank you again to everyone who participated in our survey. We had a whopping 6,700+ responses!

You can view the results of this survey here.

[h2]October 2021 Halloween Condo Contest BEGINS![/h2]
As we've done in the past, the theme for October's contest is Halloween!

Feel free to interpret that how you like, whether that means making a haunted forest maze, a creepy basement, a chill Halloween party, or anything else, so long as it follows the rules and reasonably suits the theme.

The contest ends on October 27th, 2021, at 11:59 PM CT.

View the contest rules here!

[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]Next Update[/h2]
Work begins on the next update, which is slated to include the return of the Halloween events and new Halloween items.

You can read everything planned for this update here.

JJosh has been working on new items for the Halloween events.

[h3]New Items: Chain String, Tooth, and Eyeball Stalk[/h3]



[h3]New Items: Alien Eyes Hat, Test Tube Hat, Hockey Mask, Ballerina Tutu, and Abduction Particles[/h3]



[h3]New Item: Gravestone[/h3]



[h3]Updated Item: Coffin (Text and Bed can be toggled)[/h3]



[h2]Update 0.14.4.1[/h2]
Last week, we released Update 0.14.4.1, which included some bug fixes and new condo materials.

You can read the full changelog here.

[h2]Condo: Gizmo Improvements[/h2]
Sketchman has been working on improvements to the Gizmos for condos. This week he worked on updating the controls so the Gizmo can be dragged (or let go of) over existing UI elements.
The build UI will also now lock while the Gizmo is being dragged to prevent accidental inputs.

[h3]Gizmo: UI Improvements[/h3]

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

[h2]Plaza: Shooting Gallery Ride[/h2]
Johanna continued working on the shooting gallery ride, focusing on the spooky mansion area.

[h3]Plaza: Shooting Gallery Ride WIP[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany[/h2]

Lifeless continued working on the new Little Crusaders map.

madmijk continued working on the Arcade shooting gallery (not the ride). He also continued working on adding MIDI support.

macdguy released Update 0.14.4.1 and started working on coding the shooting gallery ride.

Wheezwer continued working on haunted paintings for the shooting gallery ride.

Will continued working on music for both shooting gallerys.
[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since September 27th, 2021 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

This update addresses several bugs from the new update.

Changes

• Added new condo surfaces: Marble Checkerboard, Marble Checkerboard 2, Marble Herringbone White, Tile Mediterranean, Tile Catalan. Stone Floor Pattern 1, Stone Floor Pattern 2, Stone Floor Pattern 3, Bamboo Wall, Marble Cube Pattern, Marble Star Pattern, Stone Tile Pattern 1, Stone Tile Pattern 2, Marble Crosshatch Pattern 1, Marble Crosshatch Pattern 2, Marble Folded Pattern
  
• Blurred the shadows on the Tall Modern Lamp item
  
• Lock/unlock option in item properties menu no longer closes the item properties menu when changing the lock state
  
• Added open gizmo shortcut button next to items in the item finder

Bug Fixes

• Laser Tag: Players can no longer get onto the ceiling elements of the laser tag arena
  
• Laser Tag: Fixed a missing collision for one of the support walls on the 1st floor of the laser tag arena
  
• Laser Tag: Fixed a missing collision on the curved archways on the top level of the laser tag arena
  
• Laser Tag: Fixed a missing collision on the wall of the upper level team bases
  
• Fixed ocean FX extending below ocean floor in Condo
  
• Fixed ocean FX extending below ocean floor in Courtyard
  
• Reduced the extent of the ocean FX below the seafloor in Underwater
  
• Fixed ocean FX entering the top of the bowling alley interior
  
• Fixed holes in geometry in Village
  
• Fixed the Bedside Table Lamp item lampshade casting shadows on its own light
  
• Fixed the Bedside Table Lamp item light being colored from the table color
  
• Fixed the "Lamp" lamp and Wall Torch item casting shadows of their own fixtures
  
• Fixed broken lighting in Wishy Washy
  
• Fixed broken lighting in Desertion
  
• Fixed broken bamboo material in Sunrise Isles
  
• Fixed broken pizza texture in arcade and nightclub
  
• Fixed Greek Column LOD
  
• Fixed several new condo materials world align not adjusting their roughness/bump maps correctly
  
• Fixed item tags duplicating when refreshing inventory menu
  
• Fixed placeable lights not drawing from a long distance
  
• Fixed ghost milestone nametag not being above the head of the ghost
  
• Courtyard: Fixed lights being always off in the upstairs master bedroom
  
• Fixed NPCs loading in as default T pose model if you didn't have workshop character type selected
  
• Fixed Bat Hat materials
  
• Fixed various instances of skulls and skeletons fading as a player model when they shouldn't, e.g. in the Skull Bowling Ball
  
• Fixed player spawning issues with the laser tag arena
  
• Fixed ragdolls not animating sometimes due to mesh optimization system
  
• Fixed wooden hot tub water not moving with the hot tub
  
• Fixed item properties not closing when left clicking on items (now it closes out the properties popup correctly)
  
• Fixed canvas teleporters not supporting animated canvases
  
• Fixed Outdoor Trashbin using an older version of the model

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