Weekly Dev Log for February 24th, 2025
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Tower Unite Dev Log!
[h2]February 2025 Art Contest[/h2]
Its time for another TU art contest!
This art contest’s theme is The Arcade
So, make something related to the Warp Zone Arcade, its games, and/or prizes!
Entries are allowed until February 26th, 2025 at 11:59PM CT.
You can check out all the rules and prizes available at the link below:
February 2025 Art Contest - PixelTail Games Forums
[h2]February 2025 Dev Update[/h2]
Today, we released our dev update for February 2025, going over our next update and plans before our 1.0 release.
February 2025 Dev Update
[h2]Upcoming New Items[/h2]
Nuclearxpotato continued working on a bunch of new items, working on an art pass for the Cooking Pots and Pans, as well a some new utensils and utensil racks. He also worked on some new computer items.
[h3]Upcoming New Items: Cooking Items[/h3]
[h3]Upcoming New Items: Computers[/h3]
AquaBook Laptop, OEM Computer (available as a full Libretro setup and individual pieces), Mel Laptop
[h2]Condo[/h2]
Joshua began working on the Condo Pets.
macdguy worked on adding adding Day/Night IO, allowing for events to be fired based off time of day. He also worked on reduce networking with Condo I/O, hopefully enabling more stable condos.
Nuclearxpotato worked on adding customization to certain map features. He also made some changes to the Vending Machine item.
[h3]Condo: Pet Demo WIP[/h3]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
[h3]Condo: Map Feature Customization[/h3]
[h3]Condo: Day/Night IO[/h3]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
[h3]Condo: Vending Machine Item Changes[/h3]
Soda Vending Machine now allows you to select the flavour, it now defaults to a "Random" option.
[h2]Miscellany[/h2]
Johanna continued working on Plaza optimizations.
Lifeless continued working on tutorials for the Plaza, Arcade, and Condo.
macdguy fixed a bunch of bugs with inventory, the Bowling camera, and the Minigolf scoreboard bugs. He also added a milestone/game world prop store to the Plaza. He overhauled the settings menu, adding graphics profiles. Lastly, he worked on alternative cameras for Accelerate.
Sketchman continued working on optimizations and bug fixes.
wheezwer worked on getting things ready for the 1.0 trailer and continued to go through trivia questions to approve them.
[h3]New Settings UI[/h3]
[h3]Milestone / Game World Prop Store[/h3]
[h2]That’s a Wrap![/h2]
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!
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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.
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Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! https://discord.gg/pixeltail
We love awesome people like you!
Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time: https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap
If you like our game and want to support development, please consider getting a Supporter Pack:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2792910/Tower_Unite__Supporter_Pack
Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week! https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/announcements/weekly-dev-logs/65
Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.
For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18
For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7
[h2]February 2025 Art Contest[/h2]
Its time for another TU art contest!
This art contest’s theme is The Arcade
So, make something related to the Warp Zone Arcade, its games, and/or prizes!
Entries are allowed until February 26th, 2025 at 11:59PM CT.
You can check out all the rules and prizes available at the link below:
February 2025 Art Contest - PixelTail Games Forums
[h2]February 2025 Dev Update[/h2]
Today, we released our dev update for February 2025, going over our next update and plans before our 1.0 release.
February 2025 Dev Update
[h2]Upcoming New Items[/h2]
Nuclearxpotato continued working on a bunch of new items, working on an art pass for the Cooking Pots and Pans, as well a some new utensils and utensil racks. He also worked on some new computer items.
[h3]Upcoming New Items: Cooking Items[/h3]
[h3]Upcoming New Items: Computers[/h3]
AquaBook Laptop, OEM Computer (available as a full Libretro setup and individual pieces), Mel Laptop
[h2]Condo[/h2]
Joshua began working on the Condo Pets.
macdguy worked on adding adding Day/Night IO, allowing for events to be fired based off time of day. He also worked on reduce networking with Condo I/O, hopefully enabling more stable condos.
Nuclearxpotato worked on adding customization to certain map features. He also made some changes to the Vending Machine item.
[h3]Condo: Pet Demo WIP[/h3]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
[h3]Condo: Map Feature Customization[/h3]
[h3]Condo: Day/Night IO[/h3]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
[h3]Condo: Vending Machine Item Changes[/h3]
Soda Vending Machine now allows you to select the flavour, it now defaults to a "Random" option.
[h2]Miscellany[/h2]
Johanna continued working on Plaza optimizations.
Lifeless continued working on tutorials for the Plaza, Arcade, and Condo.
macdguy fixed a bunch of bugs with inventory, the Bowling camera, and the Minigolf scoreboard bugs. He also added a milestone/game world prop store to the Plaza. He overhauled the settings menu, adding graphics profiles. Lastly, he worked on alternative cameras for Accelerate.
Sketchman continued working on optimizations and bug fixes.
wheezwer worked on getting things ready for the 1.0 trailer and continued to go through trivia questions to approve them.
[h3]New Settings UI[/h3]
[h3]Milestone / Game World Prop Store[/h3]
[h2]That’s a Wrap![/h2]
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!
---
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.
---
Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! https://discord.gg/pixeltail
We love awesome people like you!
Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time: https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap
If you like our game and want to support development, please consider getting a Supporter Pack:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2792910/Tower_Unite__Supporter_Pack
Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week! https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/announcements/weekly-dev-logs/65
Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.
For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18
For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7