On March 9th we will finally release Cube Racer 2! We've gathered a ton of feedback in the last couple of months in our alpha testing phase. The game is now more polished than any player can hope for, while still providing the most satisfying chaos possible.

If you want to sneak peek the game, try out the still available demo version, and if you like this masterpiece of a game, we will greatly apprieciate you whishlisting the game. Also tell your friends about it, play with them, and let them whishlist it as well. We want to see our servers burn on release date...

Although we're nearing the release date, leave us any feedback and comments you have, either on our development discord or in the community page here. We read everything, promise!

See you no later than 9th March in the most chaotic but cleanest release ever.

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The maintenance release of the first long-term support release is out !

Blender 2.83.19 LTS features many bug fixes. It is released on the 2.83 branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select 2.83.

• VSE: Implement sanity check for files with more channels than supported. (rB14b8f6c25b2)
  
• Cycles - Rendering on a Nvidia A100 crashes/fails on Google Colab. (T91879)
  
• Fix LLVM 12 symbol conflict with Mesa drivers, after recent Linux libs update. (rB90ee4b94eea)
  
• Fix potential crash opening 3.0 blend files in older versions. (rB95c82513caebe4)
  
• Channels in the Grease Pencil Dope Sheet still visible while collection is hidden. (T93194)
  
• 2.93: Crash on system with a non-English locale. (T88877)
  
• Reload Library Override file loses Constraints. (T93353)
  
• Subdividing with overlapping tri and quad crashes Blender. (T93563)
  
• Texture paint: crash when painting with clone brush. (T93117)
  
• View/Frame Selected (Vertex Paint mode) not working. (T93130)
  
• Grease Pencil Strokes drawn at 0.0 Strength still visible. (T94799)
  
• Cannot animate Object Info Color in Cycles with Persistent Data ticked. (T93007)
  
• Freestyle NPR: Unknown curve blend type Crash. (T93320)
  
• Freestyle: Sinus Displacement Division by Zero Crash. (T93322)
  
• Freestyle seed in noise modifier can be zero (leading to crash). (T89081)
  
• Shading/Normals break on array modifier caps. (T94422)
  
• Grease Pencil Blur Effect "Use Depth of Field" visible in cameras NOT using DoF. (T94262)
  
• Removing an image used for camera background from python console crashes blender. (T94544)
  
• Mirror clipping is not properly placed in sculpt mode. (T94564)
  
• hair disconnect/reconnect not working with modifiers. (T54488)
  
• Fix: connecting hair fails on meshes with no generative modifiers. (rB6570d5596be)
  
• Out-of-bounds memory access in IMB_flipy() due to large image dimensions. (T94629)
  
• Heap Buffer Overflow when viewing dds thumbnails in the file browser. (T86952)
  
• Out-of-bounds memory access due to malformed DDS image file. (T94661)
  
• Fix `PSYS_GLOBAL_HAIR` stripped even if connecting the hair fails. (rBf7b8875ed5a)
  
• GPencil: Copying keys doesn't preserve Keyframe Type. (T94903)
  
• Grease Pencil Drawing don't Update after paste. (T94089)
  
• Tilt works strangely in a poly curve (or other type with U resolution of 1) with only two control points. (T94837)
  
• Failure to import this FBX (but Unity handles it well). (T91062)
  
• FBX export error if there is an action in NLA tweakmode. (T93209)
  
• Node Wrangler - Principled Texture Setup error (with Relative Path option and blendfile and textures are on different drives). (T77022)

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Here’s what’s new in v1.3.1 of Boom 3D for Windows:



- New Feature: Sleep Timer - You can now set a timer to pause the Boom player at a predefined time.
- We have added support for 4 new languages: Italian, Korean, Arabic, and Dutch.
- Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.



We thrive on your feedback and comments, please feel free to get in touch with us on boomwindows@globaldelight.com with feedback, feature requests, or even if you just want to say hi! :)

- Fixed a critical bug with increased critical damage.
We considered the option of rolling back progress by 2 days (technically the shortest possible time). After examining the data in detail, we decided not to do this, since the consequences of the rollback will affect the work of several hundred players, while the damage from the exploit affects only two servers and several dungeon runs, which is not critical for the economy in general. We remind you that the game is in development and such cases can sometimes occur.

- Now, when leaving a hideout in a Plague city, the player receives an Appearance effect that protects against attacks.
- Fixed a bug with the number of skeletons in the daily quest.
- Reduced the reward for killing the bloody bear in the daily quest.

My name is Dmitry Glaznev, and I am the designer of Norland. We have been developing this game for several years now, and have managed to implement many interesting systems in it, such as social, environmental, political, religious, and so on. In these devlogs I will gradually tell you how these ideas work in our gameplay.

But since right now we have shown most of the visual style, I would like to focus on it first.

As you can see in the game's trailer, Norland may resemble Rimword or Prison Architect in terms of visuals. The resemblance is noticeable due to the similar camera and character style. We chose this particular style because it allows us to enhance recognizable character traits (head, clothes) by hiding their arms and legs. We had decided to hide these details mostly because the economic basis of the game is city-builder.

Traditionally, when it comes to city-builders, the realistic style allows you to control the city or interact with the buildings. Still, then the characters look like tiny ants. In other cases, you bring the camera closer to the characters, but then you will only see 1-2 structures and won't be able to control the whole city.

The style we chose for the game allows you to control objects the size of the building, as it is typical for city-builders, and at the same time well distinguish the characters and their faces without toggling with the camera.



Our reasons for deciding on the design of the buildings are similar. You can't modify them in any noticeable way because when there are a lot of buildings on the screen, they have to be recognizable. For the same reason, they always have an entrance on the same side. All the buildings need to have a clear purpose, so that you do not spend time figuring out what they are. Therefore, their entrances are positioned at the front, making the faces with signs visible, leading to them being easily recognizable. Another feature of the buildings is that you can always look at what is going on inside; you only need to move the camera closer!



In Norland's case, the gameplay that we've decided on dictates the styling and design. We have considered our opportunities and the importance of both the characters and the buildings being easily recognizable, and we've come to create the vision of Norland that you see right now.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1857090/Norland/