Weekly Dev Log for July 16th, 2024

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for July 16th, 2024, detailing all the changes that have happened since July 8th, 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

Since you guys are awesome and funded our previous campaigns, we were able to start two Makeship campaigns on June 28th!

This time the campaigns are for a 3-pack of pins and a 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!

Miscellany

@Sabrina worked on setting up a new guide website.

@Johanna finished working on the Plaza optimizations.

@Lifeless worked on the Minigolf map, “Dino Drive”, as well as some screens for the Game Worlds Ports.

@macdguy worked on finishing the Minigolf Map Maker, finished the Unit approval tag for Workshop Maps, worked on a Live Surface Previewer, worked on the new guide website (Minigolf Map Maker guide), and the VR menu and VR IK arms.

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

@Sketchman worked on bug and crash fixes.

@Wheezwer worked on Makeship marketing and helping with the guide website.

@Will continued working on music for SDNL.

Condo: Live Surface Preview

Now when you hover over a surface, it’ll update the in-game surface as you hover allowing you to preview it live (works with your color settings as well).

Minigolf: Dino Drive Prop

A souvenir shack with some Dino Drive accessories. The accessories are unlocked with the usual Minigolf map-specific achievements (Played, Mastered, etc).

The shack has the same scale as the other Booth-style condo items and will be available as an item.

Game Worlds Ports: In-Progress Board

A new board that will show you all currently in-progress games across all game worlds, allowing you to quickly jump in an active game.

Wrap It Up

That about covers everything that happened since July 8th, 2024 at PixelTail Games.

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That “in progress” board is pretty dang neat!

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Will this be in the plaza, Game World Ports, or both? I think if this is found within the plaza, it’ll be a GAME CHANGER for making lobbies way more active.

Also, will this also support custom lobby names as well?

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It’ll be both in the Plaza Game World Ports and the separate Game World Ports server.

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The game board looks awesome, and I’m still so excited for the Minigolf/BR SDKs!

Will the board eventually be organized by game world? That one Ball Race game just being in the middle of a bunch of Minigolf games feels a little out of place to me

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The world if we had this as a condo item :weary: (that maybe let you filter gamemodes). Would be nice for the gameworld ports in Resort, like for community condos.

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It’s currently based only on player count. I could look into grouping by game worlds.

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what is this guide website going to be? i’m hoping it’s the one that comes with all sorts of guides including a new guide for rigging models using new workshop rig 3.0 :slight_smile:

that asides- i really REALLY like the new games in-progress board; that’s literally a game changer right there!! also i’m super happy with live surface preview feature and new shack item!! i’m also happy we’re still getting new items that comes with achievements- we need more imo!!

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Mac has already mentioned its currently by player count and we may adjust it, however I do plan on also having smaller screens next to each game world port which has only that game worlds list of servers to help too.

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OMG Yes!! the Game ports update to show in progress games!

Always wanted to be able to join running games from game ports.

This will also make a huge difference with newcomers I think, I hear people say they come on TU and try to get a game started but there’s not enough people… they don’t realize that you can do it through the menu’s I suppose.

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Everything here is juicy! Can’t Wait!

I hope MacD lets us give people the juicy middle finger with the hand/arm IK :stuck_out_tongue: (jk jk)

I love the Dino hut prop! Looks cute and cuddly! The amount of excitement I have for the minigolf creator is beyond words!

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Does it means we are getting kinda new look for gameworld ports?

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A way to view active gameworld games from the plaza is exactly what it needed! Also the park style booth and tacky merch is simply adorable and I’m excited to get my hands on it lmao.

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The game world board is such a huge addition, but not as big as a dino themed mini golf course <3 Im so excited and thank you for letting us have that stall, it looks so good! Also you mentioned us getting the cosmetics when playing, so that means I can wear the dino hat?!!

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The plan is to have the Accessories in Tower Threads, but locked behind the main map-specific achievements so that the player has actually visited the park before they own the souvenirs. I thought it’d be cute to make in-universe souvenirs and have them be exclusively unlocked from the map itself.

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this might be good for the virus theme park map being worked on as well?

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I love this idea and I agree with Goop! I think that is something you could do with anything game related, kind of like the upgrades for gameworld games.

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Hello devs. I know i don’t talk on here much but i have a question. What is the song you have playing in the plaza speakers during the christmas event? I know its early

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this sound is on sound emitters list, named Christmas or something. Im pretty sure you can do something with it. I don’t know what’s the original music comes from though

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Totally missed this dev log but that Game Worlds Board is awesome!

HUGE agree here. I don’t know how difficult this would be to implement in Condos, but I would absolutely love the ability to see on-going games while building my condo. It’s a bit of a pain having to back out to the main menu to check what is going on.

Honestly, while Global Chat was a chaotic mess, I miss the ability to see game-wide when a Virus match started up. I feel like I ended up playing Virus a lot more, and it kept me from sitting in a Virus lobby waiting for players while being totally oblivious to the fact another Virus match started that I could have been playing the entire time.

The gameworlds port is fantastic for starting new games, and this board looks like a great innovation to join on-going games. I would love if it were even accessible outside of the gameworlds port. Anything besides having to back out of Plazas/Condos to the main menu to get a pulse on what activities are going on.

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