Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for July 22nd, 2024, detailing all the changes that have happened since July 16th, 2024. 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.
Kalleira Plushie and Pins - 3 days left!
Since you guys are awesome and funded our previous campaigns, we were able to start two Makeship campaigns on June 28th!
For a limited time, you can grab:
3-pack of pins and/or
Kalleira (+ Cosmic Catsack) plushie!
You can order them in a bundle, so you can save, if you want to do that!
The campaigns will be running for a limited time, so be sure to keep an eye on them if you want to snag them for yourself!
Buying this merch seriously helps us with funding TU's development, and we can't thank you enough for supporting us in any way you have already.
Also, to those of you who bought the Cornelius Plush: keep an eye out! Those should be shipping out later this month!
August 2024 Condo Contest (Sci-Fi)
Hey everyone!
The theme of this month's contest is Sci-Fi!
So, think alien invaders, spaceships, laboratories, robots, high-tech cities, or anything else like that that reasonably fits the theme!
Your submission can be a regular Condo or a Workshop Game World Map. The submission should be something that was made after the contest was announced.
Winner will take home 2,000,000 units!
The submission period ends on September 2nd, 2024 at 11:59 PM CT.
Be sure to look at the prizes and follow the rules here.
New Guide Website
We wanted to share the New Tower Guide website with everyone.
The new guide website is a collection of all our guides all in one location, and covers a range of subjects, such as Condo I/O, Movers, Map Makers, etc.
This new guide website will serve as the place for players to look for help on certain aspects of the game - and people can use it to link to others if people need help with common things.
Existing guides have been updated as well. For example, the Condo IO / Movers guides have more information and now there's a guide on how to use the Spline tool.
Right now, we focused on porting and updating existing guides, as well as creating the Minigolf Map Maker guide, but we want to also cover some more simpler guides, like how to get started when first decorating your condo, and some gameplay guides on each game world.
There are videos and image examples included in most guides. We'll be updating the in-game help menu to open the guide website as well. The Minigolf Map Maker guide is on here if you want to get a preview of it before the map maker update comes out.
Check it out at https://towerunite.com/guides/.
Miscellany
Sabrina finished setting up the new guide website.
Johanna finished working on the Plaza optimizations.
Lifeless continued working on the Minigolf map, "Dino Drive".
macdguy worked on AI navigation changes required for the Workshop Map Makers, as well as adding testing support to all of the Minigolf objects. He also worked on adding information to the guide website.
Nuclearxpotato continued working on the Minigolf map, "Dino Drive".
Sketchman worked on bug and crash fixes.
Wheezwer worked on art for Virus and the Plaza.
Will continued working on music for SDNL.
Custom Map Thumbnails
You can now set a custom thumbnail for your workshop condo/maps.
Condo I/O: Camera Example
The camera volume is now complete and ready for release. We've made an example of what's possible with the new tool.
Wrap It Up
That about covers everything that happened since July 16th, 2024 at PixelTail Games.
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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
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