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Update 20 (First user-created map!)

Well, very well done to Ex3mx (Max Graw) who actually managed to finish a map within 24 hours of my launching the workshop (I didn't imagine anyone would be finishing any maps for at least a week!). The map's called "Labor" and it's a much needed "Capture The Sphere" map. You can find it in the map browser under the new "User created" section. We also now know that the process of producing a map and getting it in the game works, so that's excellent news! I'm very excited to see what else people come up with.

On a slightly less positive note, it seems like I can't actually download items from the workshop. I'm still looking into this, but I imagine it's for the same reason the items aren't publicly visible (Steam not supporting free curated workshops). I've just edited my guide to instruct people to just email me their maps for the time being. As you've probably realised, this process now doesn't actually use the Steam workshop at any step now, which I find quite amusing. Well, I suppose there's still the workshop forum...
If map making for ZGA becomes particularly popular, and people think that we need a "ready-to-use" style workshop, then I'll get back on that if I can. Had I know free-curated workshops weren't supported when I started, I'd have spent more time on it back then. As it stands, I think it would still take a long time to get in place, so that's not something I want work on unless people really think we need it.

ADDITIONS (User created):
-New map, "Labor". Created by Max Graw (Ex3mx on Steam). It's a CTS map, fairly small in size, but also quite open. In that respect, and others, it's quite unlike any of my maps, which is excellent, as I expect we can hope to see more and more variety with user made maps. Another thing to note is that Max somehow managed to work out how to make a CTS map, despite the fact that I'm yet to release any tutorials on supporting different game modes, so once again, an incredible achievement.

ADDITIONS:
-A fancy new splash screen. You might have noticed it's accompanied by fancy new branding images on Steam too. Let me know if you think they are in fact more or less fancy than the old ones.

CHANGES:
-The map browser now displays the creator (due to the introduction of user-made maps), and a recommend number of players for each map (to better support more varied map sizes). It also has a user-created section now.

-I've hidden the workshop upload menu, since it's no longer used, as explained in the wordy bit at the top.

BUGFIXES:
-You should no longer be able to "phase into" the spheres on Core. I can only assume this had been in the game since the introduction of the spheres months ago, so it's a miracle no one noticed before, since it was quite easy to do once you'd worked out how. Thanks to Islander for spotting this.