Weekly Dev Log for December 9th, 2019
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for December 9th, 2019, detailing all the changes that have happened since December 2nd, 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.
Hotfix 0.8.5.1
Work continues on getting Hotfix 0.8.5.1 tested and ready for release. You can read all about what is in this hotfix here.
Christmas Condo Contest 2019
We’re conducting a Christmas Condo Contest on our forums! Submit your festive and cosy contest for the chance to win 800,000 units! You can check out all the details here.
Arcade Progress
@Gloves continued working on animations for Arcade, working on improved throwing animations for “Little Birde Feeders” and “Ice Cave”, along with creating a Basketball pickup animation. He also finished working on animations for “Salmon Says”.
@Johanna modeled “Ticket Heaven” (the ticket eater machine), along with decorating the arcade with various props. She also started reworking the “Wheely Rigged” model.
@joshua continued working on plushies for the arcade.
@Madmijk continued working on “Captain Calypso’s Planetary Piano”, working on getting the demo gameplay completed, along with figuring out some replication issues.
@Wheezwer worked on art for “Ticket Heaven” (the ticket eater) and the Token Machines.
@macdguy finished the gameplay for “Mas Fuerte 2K”, as well as completing the HUD feedback for when rounds start for both “Mas Fuerte 2K” and other machines that don’t have physical screens.
For “Pluck-a-pal”, issues with physics desyncing were resolved, along with, plushies spawning frozen, and restoring physics after playing being incorrect. Implemented different types of plushies other than just the turtle plush we’ve been using for testing.
He finished up gameplay for “Bug Bytes”, also implementing the Multiplayer System and the Multiplayer Scoring System. He also improved and fixed some issues with the hammer system, which is used with “Whack-a-mole” and “Bug Bytes”.
He created an arcade attract sound system that will handle attract sounds for multiple arcade machines while they are not being played, as well as implemented the Meteoroid Mania and Ice Cave music that @Will created. Sounds effects for game timers were also added, so that the player has an audio cue for when a round is about to end.
Several optimizations and bugs were fixed which heavily improved FPS inside of the Arcade. Optimizations were done to the colliders, networking, overlaps, buttons, and to several machines themselves. One networking improvement was a system that keeps track of players around machines and only sending network updates to those players, to cut down on networking traffic.
Throwable physics objects in the Arcade now have a pullback curve, so it’s easier for the player to understand where the objects will eventually end up.
Ticket models were created, resulting in models for a single ticket, multiple tickets, and stacks of tickets. Work has begun on actually animating the tickets as they come out of the machine.
Bonus support was integrated into “Ring God”, along with the finished version of the screen.
Pluck-a-pal Gameplay WIP
More Arcade Plushies WIP
Token Machines WIP
Bug Bytes Multiplayer Gameplay WIP
Tickets WIP
1 ticket, 10 tickets, 30 tickets, 50 tickets.
Emotes
@Gloves continued working on emotes, making progress with “Face Splat”.
Face Splat WIP
Engine Upgrades
@Sketchman continued working on fixing issues with Unreal Engine 4.19 migration.
Miscellany
@Lifeless is back from mandatory two week jury duty.
@ThisIsntNath continued working on the Monthly Dev Breakdown for November 2019.
Wrap It Up
That about covers everything that happened since December 2nd, 2019 at PixelTail Games. See you all next week!
This ghost plushie is amazing.
