Occupy White Walls News

Hello curators!
It’s almost a week since we launched into Early Access, and we’d love to share an update on the current status and our plans for the near future.


So the good news is that we are overwhelmed with the enthusiastic reception and how many of you like our strange vision of an upside down MMO.

The bad news is that our poor back-end servers have a very hard time, we added more machines and our devs spent most of last week with no sleep working and fixing these issues. But we are happy to report that most of them are fixed, the game is way more stable than it’s been at launch, with less disconnects and less people stuck in the tutorial - and more people creating amazing galleries (check out the screenshots!).

However it’s not entirely fixed and sadly some people still face issues at times. If you are affected by these issues, we apologize. Rest assured we are working on a totally new and sparkling backend that will sort this, it will be available SOON™. But for the time being if you have issues with ‘no permission to build’ in the tutorial - we recommend you log out, wait five minutes, and then log back in.


Sure, there are lots of bugs, Indie MMO early access beta kind of thing… However we are hard at work at fixing some issues that sometimes rear their ugly head. Including, but not limited to, crashes, comments not saving, text not saving and objects that can’t be moved back after using the move tool, not having building permissions and teleporting to the wrong place.


As you may have noticed, the price of expansion spaces had jumped up quite significantly. This is by design. We made it so that each expansion adds 100 to the price for each expansion you have purchased. We will continue to tweak and balance these numbers. But we would actually really appreciate it if you could give us some feedback about the expansion spaces over at this link: (Edit: We stopped taking feedback through that link but you can always give it through Discord)


We’re not stopping with the release. But we’re also not ready to talk about it. But please know we’re always willing to listen to feedback and ideas.


We’re also looking into better moderation tools for our game and hope to leverage our amazingly helpful community in the future to help us out in this regard.

See you on the other side,
StikiPixels

Hello everyone!

Let’s start off by thanking everyone for playing our game! We did not anticipate the amount of traffic our game about art would recieve!

As a result the servers were on fire and we functioned on coffee and cookies while searching for the error. But the good news is that our two biggest issues have been found and fixed.

No more will you teleport to the wrong gallery or have terrible connection issues. We also upgraded our servers to allows for the bigger load and removed a bottleneck in the server that caused our backend to come to a crawl.

So outside of the occasional disconnect that we are still working on the game should actually run like it was intended and we will back here soon to share more news about the future of our game!


Thank you for your patience and understanding,


- Marnick (Protobear)

We know, we know, you are all waiting (patiently?) for THE Steam release. We know it was promised a while ago, but alas, it took longer than expected - Sorry - not an easy job taming the dragon that is Gamedev.

The good news is that the new version is made almost from scratch, it has much improved performance (runs smoother now), a ton of new assets, new design mechanics + a couple of surprises...

Completely re-designing the back-end was a lot of work, because everything is interconnected (in OWW and in life in general, too). But with it came a lot of game-breaking bugs… and with each bug we fixed two more popped up… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But today we are happy to announce that Occupy White Walls will launch on Steam Early Access in October! (fingers crossed). If you haven’t wishlisted us already, what’s wrong with you? Go do that already!





So you might be wondering what’s coming up in the new version of Occupy White Walls, we had to remove every (Alpha) gallery in the game after all, so there better be some new stuff coming with the game!

Well, there is. First of all the game runs so much smoother. Like… a lot smoother. We added a bunch more assets to the game as well as a new unlock system and an improved economy system, well more like the basis on which we will continue to build.

Look out on our Steam page for more information in the near future.






A weird game about art without new art would be even weirder right? Well, we’ve added a good number of new paintings - including some new ‘living’ artists! For example, this particular piece is from Lars Kristoffer Armando Hormander Alvarez, but I’m happy he shortens it to LARSKRISTO. An American from Swedish and Guatemalan origin currently based in Guatemala with an amazing portfolio of works, most of which you can find at his Instagram (and the Steam release of OWW). There will be a lot more of that in the future.





We couldn’t have done this if not for all the amazing enthusiasm feedback you’ve given us over the last few months on Discordand we’re working round the clock to make the game even better than it was yesterday.

See you on the other side (SOON),

Whether you heard about Occupy White Walls just now or you’ve been following our adventures in art for a while now we’re happy that you’ve joined us.

And as a way of saying hello to steam we wanted to share some details


We are currently aiming for somewhere in August. But we’re perfectionists and want the game to be in its best shape yet when it launches Early Access. So there’s always a possibility that we have to push that date back a little, we hope we don’t have to - fingers crossed.

We will announce a release date once our Steam client is closer to perfection.


A lot.

Oh, you want more information? It’s been a couple of months since we released the last update to the alpha. But here’s what we’ve been up to.

We took a look at all the code we had and started tackling the largest optimization issues and bugs we could find, including those you guys have reported to us so far. Not all of them have made it in there but the game should run and feel a lot smoother now.

We made a lot of animation changes including a locomotion system with inverse kinematics, actual jumping, a teleport effect that looks damn sexy if I can say so myself. And one of the biggest additions, and this one is big and important… We finally have added running to the game. YES! No more slow walking in huge galleries. Run till your legs fall off!

Next to that the biggest change is our new economy system (more information about that leading up to release) and quite a few new assets for you to play with.

And that’s all I’m contractually allowed to say to you.


The community is a big and important part of OWW. It provides us with feedback and I got to know some seriously amazing people through it.

We welcome you to engage with us either here on the Steam Discussions, our own forum over at www.oww.ist and our discord https://discord.gg/kRfkkdy


See you in the game!