Weekly Dev Log for December 2nd, 2024

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Tower Unite Dev Log!

2024 Snowman Contest

This is a short contest for building snowmen in Tower Unite!

So, just make a snowman in Tower Unite!

The submission period ends on December 12th (NEXT THURSDAY) at 11:59 PM CT!
PRIZES:

1st place - 300,000 Units
2nd place - 200,000 Units
3rd place - 100,000 Units

Everyone will get a 50k Units prize for joining!

Click here for rules and details on participating!

Winter 2024-25 Condo Contest

Hey everyone,

The 2024-25 Winter Condo Contest has started!

As usual, we’re doing a Winter / Festivity theme.

So, your build should be either: winter-related, themed after winter holidays / holiday activities (including New Years), or generally wintry and festive!

The submission period ends on January 22nd, 2025 at 11:59 PM.

Click here for details!

Plaza

@Johanna has been working on plaza optimizations and polish in preparation for our 1.0 release. While optimizing, she’s also been working on fake interiors for more immersion and seamless transitions between interiors and exteriors.

Plaza: Boardwalk Ice Cream Store

Plaza: Trivia Fake Interior

Arcade

@macdguy has been working on finishing the Arcade shooting gallery in preparation for our 1.0 release.

Arcade: Shooting Gallery

New Player Models

@Joshua continued working on the new player models, focusing on new outfits.

New Player Models

New Items

@Nuclearxpotato has been working on highly-requested furniture for Condos to help fill out our catalogue, this week working on some new Laundry Machine items.

New Items: Laundry Machines

New items are a Basic Dryer, Basic Washer, Combo, and Commercial Dryer.

Both “Basic” machines have the option to add coin slots. The commercial dryer has an option to make it an “upper” machine for stacking.

All machines have spinning drums that can be enabled.

Miscellany

As last week was our Thanksgiving break, we had a shorter worke week. We’re back in normal development starting this week.

@Joshua worked on some upcoming holiday items.

@macdguy fixed some bugs relating to leaving vehicles. He also updated the VR bindings for Oculus and Vive, which should hopefully fix Oculus controllers.

@Nuclearxpotato continued working on the Minigolf map, Dino Drive.

@Sketchman worked on fixing bugs released in the patch last week.

@Wheezwer finished the December calendar and started the new contests.

@Will continued working on the 1.0 trailer music.

That’s a Wrap!

Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!


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The dress moves…THE DRESS MOVES! I know it’s common in other games, you guys really out done yourself!

And Yes! Laundry Machines! Another off the check list not using workshop item for something more generic stuff!

The shooting gallery looks fun!

Can’t for the ice scream if only it means the Plaza feels complete!

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oh my GOD! O____O THIS LOOKS SO GOOD!!! i’m looking forward to this!!! OHHHH THIS LOOKS SO GOOD

excellent work on fake exteriors as always, they look great! shooting gallery looks absolutely fun too!! :slight_smile:

also last thing- i am saying this with all of sincerity from my heart- amazing job on the skirt physics- i mean that. i worked with skirt physics for VRChat in the past and it is absolute nightmare to work with. lol

my only concern is impact on performance if everyone wore dress/skirt with physics on; would it be client sided on your character for your screen only? or will there be setting toggles?

also super excited about new house items i NEED all of them so bad!!!

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You guys have a wonder sense of nostalgia when designing items. love the new washers

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Finally! Shooting Gallery!!

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Love how the new playermodel outfits are coming along - Hoping we can wear any clothing sets regardless of which of the two you use.

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