Hey Survivors,

We are happy to announce the Specialist Contract release in Survival.
Some of you guys know these contracts from Arcade. For the ones that don't, we created an article where you can read everything about these contracts.
https://support.playnewz.com/viewarticle?/94-specialist-contracts-in-survival

Overall there are not over 50 NEW PVE+PVP contracts and the rewards are massive. Of course, we will check for feedback and maybe change it in the future.

Just keep in mind, the blue circle means PVP and green PVE.


Rewards for each contract will be a skin recipe and a specialist coin. You need these specialist coins to exchange in Blue Ridge and receive the Specialist Crate.


Keep in mind, you have to accept the missions through the missions tab while being on the Colorado map.

We hope you will enjoy and don't forget to share your thoughts on our discord at https://playnewz.com/discord

Hey Survivors,

We are happy to announce the Specialist Contract release in Survival.
Some of you guys know these contracts from Arcade. For the ones that don't, we created an article where you can read everything about these contracts.
https://support.playnewz.com/viewarticle?/94-specialist-contracts-in-survival

Overall there are not over 50 NEW PVE+PVP contracts and the rewards are massive. Of course, we will check for feedback and maybe change it in the future.

Just keep in mind, the blue circle means PVP and green PVE.


Rewards for each contract will be a skin recipe and a specialist coin. You need these specialist coins to exchange in Blue Ridge and receive the Specialist Crate.


Keep in mind, you have to accept the missions through the missions tab while being on the Colorado map.

We hope you will enjoy and don't forget to share your thoughts on our discord at https://playnewz.com/discord

Hey Survivors,

We are happy to announce the Specialist Contract release in Survival.
Some of you guys know these contracts from Arcade. For the ones that don't, we created an article where you can read everything about these contracts.
https://support.playnewz.com/viewarticle?/94-specialist-contracts-in-survival

Overall there are not over 50 NEW PVE+PVP contracts and the rewards are massive. Of course, we will check for feedback and maybe change it in the future.

Just keep in mind, the blue circle means PVP and green PVE.


Rewards for each contract will be a skin recipe and a specialist coin. You need these specialist coins to exchange in Blue Ridge and receive the Specialist Crate.


Keep in mind, you have to accept the missions through the missions tab while being on the Colorado map.

We hope you will enjoy and don't forget to share your thoughts on our discord at https://playnewz.com/discord

Hi everyone and happy Friday! We've been busy developing Astride these last couple of weeks (as usual) and we do of course have some work in progress to share with you!



Lately we have been busy remaking animations after updating our rig. This has opened up the opportunity to go over the old animations and make them better. Because of this we have revisited the basic animations first like the walk here, where we lifted the body more as the rig allowed it more than the original. We also got to adjust faults that have been on the back burner for months, like the timing between front and back legs and the back movement. While working so long on one thing it is easy to not be able to see flaws that you are not directly working at, and posting work in progress to our discord got some new eyes to look and notice a skinning flaw that we got to fixing fast.




As we got to more advanced animations we got a perfect opportunity to show our updating workflow from old movement with deleted leg bones and remaking the animation as much as we could during a stream. You can see we got quite far during our stream, even with some tangents.




As announced on Discord, we have a technical artist working freelance to create a custom horse shader for our horses. We revisited the UV map of the horses and decided it needed an upgrade to work better with the game itself and the shader. This means that we start from scratch with colors again, but it also opens up for creating more detailed layers. There will be an article on our Patreon page in not too long about this. In the GIF above, you can see two chestnut coat variants and the equivalent coat with black and agouti. This means that if Astride has 6 different shades of chestnut/red, there will also be 6 different shades of bay/agouti. There will also be a couple more agouti versions. One with more black and one with less. This will bring the total bay/agouti combinations up to 18 different shades of bays. More and more modifiers and dilutions are being made, such as the mealy/pangare bay shown in the top left collection as well as the buttermilk buckskin in the bottom right corner.




Last time you saw a small piece of the stable textures, and this time the outside textures are done! Our vision was to make something that would make you, as players, feel that you are at an old stable that could need some love and care from you. Whether you choose to maintain the look or do a total renovation is up to you. This stable has 10 stalls available as it stands now. That should be enough for the first phase of the early access. Even though this iteration of the stable is done, it does not mean that the journey is over. Who knows what other stables you will get in the future!




Astride will have some other animals in the game in the future and one of those animals will be dogs. This is a sketch of The Norwegian Elkhound. They are commonly used for hunting and are great companions. And they are quite fluffy!




There is so much to discover when it comes to the UI, but some plans and sketches has been made. The player will have a phone filled with different apps and here is an idea of how the apps may look like. To ease the player experience and make things more accessible, this is a great solution.




Since introducing the Dole horse to the mix of breeds, we needed to make sure it would get a set of hair to match. Doles are known for growing long, full manes and this is something we wanted represented in Astride. Therefore, we found a way for wavy hair to work. This of course opens up for other horses to have wavy hair as well.




Here is an idea for some of the NPC's house. This house is made with Rini and her husband, Jin, in mind. Since they are originally from Japan and moved to Eldheim, they build the house from the ground when they moved there a few years ago. The design is a small mix of a modern japanese house and with some small nordic elements.

The house is light and bright with lots of natural lighting. The rooms are filled with green plants, art and photos. The furniture is in Rini's favorite color aswell as some light wood. Rini and Jin loves to play games together on the TV so they got a console too. In the hallway there some antique objects that Jin bought on an auction which he decorated with some of Rini's showjumping prizes and awards.

Since Rini have bunnies, the living room have been designed for some space for free roam rabbits with a few beds, feeding space and toys.



Please note that everything shown in these devlogs is mostly just work in progress and is not finished. Changes may happen and the things showcased here will have further work put into them! To see work in progress daily, join our Discord server community here!

- fix invisible crypt

Hello! I'm Stumpy the Squirrel. Let's make a game with RPG in a Box! In this tutorial, we'll create a grass tile, and then make a map with it in the Map Editor. Let's get started! 🛠️🐿️🕹️

Hello folks,

Our friends from META Publishing are excited to invite you to try the time-traveling puzzle-platformer Time Loader! Join this exciting adventure of a tiny time-traveling robot trying to save its creator by traveling back to the ‘90s.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1301950/Time_Loader/

• Subverted perspectives
  Even the most familiar objects look different when you’re the size of a toy car. Will you watch your every move or dive head-first into this dangerous new world?
  
• An arsenal to choose from
  Boosters, harpoons, screwdrivers… choose among dozens of upgrades to tackle each level and get the job done!
  
• Dynamic and branching narratives
  Don’t just relive the past: change it! Every choice you make will influence the story and may lead to a different outcome. So do us a favor: change the past responsibly!
  
• A complimentary dose of nostalgia
  Time Loader features music, references, and items straight out of the ‘90s. Relive your childhood or, if you’re too young for it, just gawk in awe at how primitive humanity used to be back then!

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V1.06 Patch Log

Main improvements and bug corrections:

- You can now manage money from a ministry slush fund you can transfer to other controlled characters and use to create cash and bribes
- You can now reconnect to a multiplayer game after being disconnected
- You can now connect to a multiplayer game through an IP adress
- You can now change the UPNP port without creating a new multiplayer lobby
- Giving or asking objects to uncontrolled characters now costs influence points, or give influence points in the case of a gift of a precious object
- Every character has access to the action « Bribe by financial transaction »
- You no longer gain score when modifying the state budget without applying the changes
- Dependancies do not display in the current conflcits panel anymore
- You can now create fake ID badges when the Director of intelligence agency is in another country
- Fixed a bug that could prevent loading a save from a previous version
- Fixed animations and other visual issues when inviting a character to a restaurant
- Fixed a bug in the SMS when the Psychoanalyst send a patient’s psychiatric information
- Fixed a bug in the SMS when a character gives cash to a Gangster
- Other minor bug fixes


We would like to thank the gaming community and especially the beta testers for their collaboration in improving this game.

The 4GW development team

We celebrate the coming of autumn with many award-winning events and campaigns at Zula!

• The Zula Gold discount you've been waiting for in the Special Offer!
  
  
  
  
• Super Login rewards - 50% XP-ZP and Material Bonus!
  
  
• Low Bullet Fun Mode!
  
  
  
  
• Surprise campaigns with lots of + in Case, Deck and Material Packages!
  
  

Welcome back ghost hunters, we've got some news for you.

Spooky Season is fast approaching, and the ghosts would love to play a game with you!



Come and join us with a Halloween-themed event!

On Nightmare Difficulty without heavy rain; enter any location decorated with a pumpkin sticker on the contract selection board! You will gain 5 sanity per candy collected or Jack-o'-lantern lit!

Collect these in order to complete each map:

1. Search for candy!
   
2. Then light Jack-o'-lanterns!
   
3. Finally snap a photo of the ghost!

Check off every pumpkin sticker and earn yourself a treat; a Halloween Trophy for your display cabinet!
The event will be available until early November

• Added window-knocking sounds to windows in Sunny Meadows
  
• Added sounds for candles being lit
  
• You can now place Jenga Blocks (It will still fall over at the start for now)

• Lowered volume and length of some female ‘out of breath' sounds

• Fixed several bugs with the global voice chat
  
• You can no longer hear dead players
  
• The truck can now be closed if a player body did not despawn when they left
  
• The Halloween lobby easter egg will now work in VR

If you experience any issues or want to give feedback, please join the official Phasmophobia Discord: https://discord.gg/phasmophobia
Thanks,