1.8 Update | Player Event Feed | Dev Diary #2
The brand-new Player Event Feed (more commonly known as a kill feed) is ready to enhance your PvP experience.
The server will now inform you if:
Watch the video to see how it looks in-game:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
But we have more than just 1.8 leaks for you today. We are also introducing a new bi-weekly concept called Flashblog where Producer Andreas Kidholm and Game Director Lasse Middelbo Outzen share insights on the development of Trailmakers.
Read the first edition now!
Greetings
This will be the first of many regular updates from the Trailmakers team. We have been wanting to be more transparent in our development for some time and with 1.8 being announced we want to kick off production updates from the Trailmakers development team every other week.
The format and lengths of these updates will change according to what is happening with the production of Trailmakers. Also, feedback and what you would like to know more about is highly appreciated.
To kick it off, let us have a look back on the last two weeks of development:
Last Monday we released Trailmakers 1.7.4 which included a refactor of blocks and a power coupling block. The block refactoring is something we have been wanting to do for a long time as it first of all aligns the look of all blocks, but also enables broader skin support and very importantly frees up memory, which again secures many more years of Trailmakers updates. It is a daunting task to change something as important as the blocks in Trailmakers, but we are very happy with the result and especially the new possibilities the changes allow for in terms of functionality.
A free “floating block” exploit was uncovered after the release of 1.7.0 by a few dedicated community members. You know who you are. We wanted to fix that glitch as it was connected to issues in the weld groups. That sparked a discussion in the office over whether we should also let people have another way to get “floating blocks.” These discussions eventually ended up with the design for the Power Coupling block. We are all very excited to see all your crazy builds using that block!
Video game development can be a long and winding road and we want to provide you with the highest possible quality. This caused 1.7.4 to take a bit longer than we had hoped for as a few crucial bugs surfaced late in the development process. Squishing bugs can be a tough job, but also an important one. In this case our players saw content creators having fun with the power coupling block before the release and kept asking when they could get their hands on it. Believe us, we wanted to release it, but it just wasn’t ready. We take pride in releasing quality content with as few bugs as possible.
Now we look toward 1.8 which has already moved into the testing phase. More to come on that in the coming weeks. We are also working on a much bigger update that will be revealed later in the year. For now, please ask questions you would like answered in the next instalment of Flashblog. It will be posted in two weeks and will provide insights in block design philosophy by our Product Architect and Trailmakers “Grand old man” Rune Holm.
Thank you for reading.
Andreas - Producer
Lasse - Game Director
The server will now inform you if:
- Player is killed by another player
- Player is ejected from their seat
- Player is blown up by another player
- Player teleports
- Player respawns (backspace)
- Player is building
Watch the video to see how it looks in-game:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
But we have more than just 1.8 leaks for you today. We are also introducing a new bi-weekly concept called Flashblog where Producer Andreas Kidholm and Game Director Lasse Middelbo Outzen share insights on the development of Trailmakers.
Read the first edition now!
Greetings
This will be the first of many regular updates from the Trailmakers team. We have been wanting to be more transparent in our development for some time and with 1.8 being announced we want to kick off production updates from the Trailmakers development team every other week.
The format and lengths of these updates will change according to what is happening with the production of Trailmakers. Also, feedback and what you would like to know more about is highly appreciated.
To kick it off, let us have a look back on the last two weeks of development:
Last Monday we released Trailmakers 1.7.4 which included a refactor of blocks and a power coupling block. The block refactoring is something we have been wanting to do for a long time as it first of all aligns the look of all blocks, but also enables broader skin support and very importantly frees up memory, which again secures many more years of Trailmakers updates. It is a daunting task to change something as important as the blocks in Trailmakers, but we are very happy with the result and especially the new possibilities the changes allow for in terms of functionality.
A free “floating block” exploit was uncovered after the release of 1.7.0 by a few dedicated community members. You know who you are. We wanted to fix that glitch as it was connected to issues in the weld groups. That sparked a discussion in the office over whether we should also let people have another way to get “floating blocks.” These discussions eventually ended up with the design for the Power Coupling block. We are all very excited to see all your crazy builds using that block!
Video game development can be a long and winding road and we want to provide you with the highest possible quality. This caused 1.7.4 to take a bit longer than we had hoped for as a few crucial bugs surfaced late in the development process. Squishing bugs can be a tough job, but also an important one. In this case our players saw content creators having fun with the power coupling block before the release and kept asking when they could get their hands on it. Believe us, we wanted to release it, but it just wasn’t ready. We take pride in releasing quality content with as few bugs as possible.
Now we look toward 1.8 which has already moved into the testing phase. More to come on that in the coming weeks. We are also working on a much bigger update that will be revealed later in the year. For now, please ask questions you would like answered in the next instalment of Flashblog. It will be posted in two weeks and will provide insights in block design philosophy by our Product Architect and Trailmakers “Grand old man” Rune Holm.
Thank you for reading.
Andreas - Producer
Lasse - Game Director
