Weekly Dev Log for July 30th, 2024

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for July 30th, 2024, detailing all the changes that have happened since July 22nd, 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.

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.

Minigolf

@macdguy worked on a mutator that adds collision to the Minigolf balls.

Minigolf: Collision Mutator

SDNL

@macdguy worked on adding outlines to players to help with visbility, as well as mutator support.

SDNL: Mutators

Players can now select different mutators / settings in SDNL (will also be in other game worlds in the future).

SDNL: Player Outlines

Virus: Theme Park

@Johanna continued working on the Virus map, Theme Park.

Virus: Theme Park





Virus: Theme Park Ice Cream Van WIP

Miscellany

@Joshua worked on getting the Workshop Skeleton V3 ready for release.

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

@macdguy worked on fixes for the Minigolf Map Maker, had a breakthrough with adding VR support, fixed some issues with SDNL, and finished Virus Horde Mode.

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

@Sketchman worked on bug and crash fixes.

@Wheezwer worked on a demo map made using the Minigolf Map Maker to demonstrate it’s capability and flexibility.

Minigolf: Dino Drive Props

These will be future furniture sets.

Wrap It Up

That about covers everything that happened since July 22nd, 2024 at PixelTail Games.


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who is living under the sea?

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oho i’ve always been a fan of carnival maps in zombie games like left 4 dead so i’m happy we’re getting one for Virus!!

so that makes me wonder; would we also get carnival map or a new map for Zombie Massacre sometimes in future?

Edit: FURNITURE SETS!!! that’s one of things i really wanted tower unite to have!! can’t wait to see more!!

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I hope we can get those cushions. Would be huge

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I am so excited for the Theme Park map!! The wait is almost over!!

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I didn’t include them in that photo, but there is an individual cushion clutter item. All the Tiki items with that cushion also have a fabric Pattern property based on the curtain items.

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Had a breakthrough with adding VR Support

@macdguy Can you elaborate on this please :smiley:

Also the Ball collision on Minigolf is gonna be chaotic and wild… and will make people rage so so bad hahaha!

Amazing work on the Theme park map! Great detail!

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2 major components were resolved:

IK arms (minus wrists but they are close)
90% of UI elements ← the breakthrough

I was able to intercept how the UI gets created for many of the interactive UI, prompts, etc. and they now have full VR support without a ton of extra work. Cuts down hours of work.

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Ah~~ I wish I had theme park rides in Plaza …Yes, I said it once on steam messages and I have to say it again on forums… HaHa. :joy:

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Very excited for the new Virus map! Will the carousel spin around??

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It’s finally time! I have been eagerly awaiting this since mutators first got announced, can’t wait to make all my friends hate me :slight_smile:

(Please tell me this is coming soon!)

Edit: Just saw it listed for 0.18 on Trello, woooooo

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