Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for July 1st, 2019, detailing all the changes that have happened since June 24th, 2019. 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.
2019 Survey
We just posted a new survey asking some helpful questions to get input from the community.
Your input is incredibly helpful in deciding where we take the game! Please spend just a few minutes of your time to let us know how we're doing!
Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xRONXJWae6DEuqDNmjZ8sAAs4IJN_9srGqcW1pqTwvQ
Summer Update
Work has continued on the Summer Update, which we plan on releasing sometime this week. macdguy worked this week on the Chainsaw Deathmatch and Booze Bash minigames, while JJosh has been working on over 40 new pool tubes.
Summer Update: Pool Tube Teaser WIP
Summer Update: Chainsaw Deathmatch Gibbing WIP
A new minigame Chainsaw Death match was made for the Summer update. Gore is toggable in settings.
https://youtu.be/RfVp3vWJLAo
Summer Update: Chainsaw Deathmatch Acid Pit WIP
https://youtu.be/mb-8NcaT7iE
Summer Update: Chainsaw Deathmatch Arena FX WIP
https://youtu.be/wsjtt5oUPgs
Arcade Progress
wheezwer and Johanna continued working on the Arcade Machine art. Work was completed on the Candy Slam, Ring God, Little Birde Feeders, and Stack 'em machines. Work started on the Tornado and Lonely Gun 30XX machine art.
macdguy continued working on the 2D Arcade game base, which will allow us to quickly create 2D arcade games with multiplayer support. This new Arcade game base allows for rendering workshop player models in 2D as well. You can read more about that here: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/56k-modem-warning-tower-unite-discord-development-sneak-peek/2661/6220?u=macdguy
Madmijk continued working on the Stack 'em machine code.
Final Little Birde Feeders Cabinet Artwork
Final Candy Slam Cabinet Artwork
Final Ring God Cabinet Artwork
Lonely Gun 30XX Cabinet Artwork WIP
Tornado Cabinet Model WIP
Stack 'em Cabinets WIP
Updated Upstairs Arcade Room WIP
Arcade 2D Gamebase Demo WIP
https://youtu.be/kEBNTd5kBbM
Arcade 2D Gamebase w/ Networking WIP
Arcade Item: Drone WIP
Minigolf: Altitude Remake
Lifeless continued working on the Altitude minigolf map remake.
Minigolf: Altitude Remake Overview WIP
Ball Race: Woodlands
Johanna worked on adding 3 more new levels to Woodlands, which weren't in the original GMod Tower version.
Ball Race: Woodlands New Levels WIP
Code Optimizations
Sketch continued looking into the memory leaks and optimizations relating to Workshop.
Wrap It Up
That about covers everything that happened since June 24th, 2019 at PixelTail Games. See you all next week!