This release contains various work to make the basic functionality work well across various test characters.

The main focus of DEMoCap is on creating Motion Capture for humanoid and especially non-humanoid game characters without the chore of existing motion capture solutions. Post-processing is mostly not required since the motion capture is applied in real-time to your game character. You can immediately examine the result and re-take capture sequences until they fit perfectly.

If you have access to VR equipment (HMD, VIVE trackers) you can get started and spare yourself complex camera setups and motion capture suits.

See the DEMoCap Wiki and the Example Characters page for additional information.

Professor Onion here, from Torment Labs ~reporting division~ part of the Schadenfreude network.

Today we are proud to announce the reopening of Stabbyland, which was closed for a time after rides were found passing inspection. Although it's rollout will be a step-by-step process ~as many things are in the Underworld~ we hope you enjoy the available attractions for the time being. Attraction. One attraction. You'll love it.


I'm looking for a publisher! Namely to help implement highly requested features, ie online multiplayer. I'm not making any promises but that's the intention. It's a laborious and time consuming process however, so information will become available as things develop! Please bare in mind I must remain relatively straight lipped about it for ~ya know~ legal reasons and stuff.

As for the rest of the update, my primary focus was to make gameplay more readable with various visual cues to help convey what's going. Please provide feedback if there are elements of the game that remain difficult to parse visually!

• Stabbyland added!
  
• New stage, "Clowning Around".
  
• Swinging iron maiden trap type added. Jump-on or throw to make it swing around.

• Shape language! Object types share simple shape silhouettes. Players are circles, shielding players are diamonds, and eventually candies will also have a shape (once I settle on one). What's going on should be more interpretable at a glance.
  
• Dreadnoodle environment overhaul! Tileset completely revised. Background animations and visual effects added. (This is very close to the final version, the only thing to be added is the rest of the band.)
  

• Offscreen players are indicated.
  
• Opponent throw direction is indicated upon charging a throw.
  
• Visual error addressed where the wrong charge bar color would be displayed occasionally.

If you encounter a crash, you may report it via a community hub discussion or in #🐛bug-reporting on the Schadenfreude Discord server. Please include a screenshot of the report like the example below or copy & paste the report text.



Tune in every Monday & Friday from 4:00-8:00PM MST on https://www.twitch.tv/onionprofessor for LIVE devstreams from the lab. If you'd like a more high level look at development progress, try the Little Hellions Development Roadmap. Finally, if you'd like to participate in Hellions' growing community, you can do so here or in the Schadenfreude Discord server.

Alright, back to the lab again, Bombpig loves you! ~ ❤

08/04/2023

This is a large patch which adds a reworked tutorial, crafting update along with some new materials, graphic options including windowed mode, traveling merchants, and more!

User Interface
-Removed the “Common”, “Superior”, “Magic” & “Rare” text from item names that had them.
-Updated the Region Map to reflect new gathering nodes.
-Added Video & Audio Options Menu to Main Menu Screen.
-Removed an unused ‘R&D’ display from some in-world elements.
-Made the ‘Assist’ line thinner.

Functionality
-Completely overhauled the Tutorial steps, flow, rewards, display and functionality.
Developer Note: This is a major rework of the tutorial from the ground up. It includes mostly new verbiage, new assist locations, new objectives in a different order, and much better rewards. We have been successful with our internal testing, but please continue to report bugs should you find any issues with the tutorial! And remember, most bugs will be solved with a game restart, but please still report. Thank you so much!
-Added a new Trading Post location near the player shop.
-Added five different Traveling Merchants who will set up shop at the new Trading Post next to your shop. Each has a chance to show up any morning, and they will stay for 24 hours.
-Removed many crafting recipes.
-Reworked materials needed to craft all remaining crafting recipes.
-Added the following new crafted compounds:
--Charged Cluster
--Lifebar
--Oily Ingot
--Enchanted Berry Bush
--”Million” Thread Count Bundle
--Glowsprig
--Swirling Orb
--Corpse Crystal
--Blood Bloom
--Lightshroud
-Added a new Tailoring Armor Crafting Recipe: Life Armor
-Adjusted pricing for the majority of raw materials and crafted compounds.
-Added the following gathering nodes to coincide with the crafting update:
--Black Cherry Grove
--Heart Pine Grove
--Foxglove Field
--Tidegrass Field
-Updated the zone reveal cutscenes to include the new gathering nodes.
-Limited Merchant Inventory to have a maximum number of items they can carry.
Developer Note: We understand inventory limitations are never fun, but this shouldn’t be so limited that it is problematic. We encourage players to make use of selling, salvaging, their Cache, and mass sales to Traveling Merchants to keep their Merchant inventories under control.
-The Mystic has been moved to a location closer to the player shop.
-Does anyone know who lives in that new tent in Terafell?
-Added the following graphics settings:
--Quality (Ultra, High, Medium, Low, Very Low)
--Screen Mode (Fullscreen, Borderless, Windowed)
--VSync
--Anti-aliasing
--Resolution
-Favor rewards now offer Research Scrolls at more appropriate values.
-Adjusted dungeon loot tables to include materials more appropriately.
-Removed Profession Trades from the game.
Developer Note: We are not happy with how Profession Trades were tying in with many of the newer features and are taking the feature back to the drawing board to find a way to make it fit better within the game. This could be as improved Profession Trades or tied into a different feature.
Added a ‘Center’ button on the Region Map.

Bugs
-Fixed an issue when opening low level loot boxes with only high level heroes would sometimes cause an error.
-Fixed an issue when certain notifications could cause the game not to close the UI overlay.

You've traveled far so we're keeping it short: you and up to 3 friends can sign up for the ASKA Multiplayer Closed Beta which starts next week on the 11th



In ASKA you get to build the ultimate Viking settlement and survive with your AI villagers. Tread in a foreign, ever-changing realm, make it your own and discover its secrets. Survive, build, craft, fight, farm and sail, but do not forget to prepare for the Dead Winter, when an ancient foe rises against you...

• Play in up to 4 players in online multiplayer co-op!
  
• Discover a total survival game, with cold, thirst and hunger. Make a camp, survive the weather, wild animals and undead enemies.
  
• Build a complete, self-reliant Viking village using bushcraft/pre-metal technology. Players will have access to the complete Tier 1 and Tier 2 Technology Trees.
  
• Organize and command AI Villagers. Build and furnish their homes, ensure they stay warm and well fed. Give your Villagers jobs, like Woodcutter, > Gatherer, Stonecutter, Toolmaker, FIsherman and much more.
  
• Construct Houses, resource gatherers and toolmakers. Your industries are inter-connected, allowing you to automate and optimise your village’s survival.
  
• Hunt, fish and forage for food. Venison, a wide variety of fish species, and a diverse seasonal flora form the basis of your survival.
  
• Fight a variety of undead enemies in skillful stamina-based 3rd person combat. Perform light and heavy attacks, combos, dodges. Includes a complete melee and ranged combat system. Use one handed and two handed weapons, shields, and bow.
  
• Craft a variety of stone tools and weapons, as well as a linen outfit.
  
• Explore old ruins, fight their inhabitants and obtain valuable resources.
  
• Tame wolves and turn them into companion Dogs.
  
• Paint your Tier 2 buildings in a variety of colors
  
• Upgrade your structures from Tier 0, to Tier 1 to Tier 2
  
• Set up warehouses and customize storage
  
• Use a cart to haul goodies from one place to another
  
• Smelt metal and explore mine systems
  
• Discover carpentry and refine raw wood into beams and planks
  
• Much more!

• Explore a large procedurally generated world, complete with a day/night cycle, realistic weather system and seasonal vegetation.
  
• Chop trees, mine rocks and gather resources from bushes
  
• Craft various tools, weapons and clothing
  
• Make a camp, survive the first nights and slowly build up your settlement
  
• Build camps, houses, production buildings, walls and fences
  
• Gain complex AI Villagers, assign them jobs, houses and make sure they have food.
  
• Villagers talk to you, sharing their issues and asking for help.
  
• Have your Villagers build structures and gather resources.
  
• Organise their schedule, balancing Work, Leisure and Sleep hours to optimise production.
  
• Set up automated production lines for food, resources and tools.
  
• Experience a complete melee and ranged skill-based combat system
  
• Defend against small occasional incursions of Revenants or wild animals. Fight alongside your Villagers.
  
• Hunt wild animals
  
• Fish a wide variety of fish species
  
• Face a variety of undead enemies and wild animals, each with their unique behavior.
  
• Build houses and decorate them with furniture and storage using a grid system.
  
• Flight System - Take the form of a raven and fly anywhere you want
  
• Proficiency System - The more a character does an action, the better they become at it
  
• Tame wolf pups and turn them in Dog companions
  
• Customize clothing with various colors
  
• Contract illnesses and heal them using the appropriate ingredients
  
• Locate and highlight valuable resources with a “detective mode” area search.
  
• Discover and cook a wide variety of seasonal food items.
  
• Discover caverns and mines
  
• Discover enemy-infested ruins

We stream every Friday and are here to answer all of your questions!

• Trophy Mode has received some upgrades.
  
  • Keybind "T" is now a on hold.
    
  • You can now give trophies by middle mouse clicking on a hero (even while not in trophy mode).
    
  • Hovering over a hero will now display their current XP.
    
  • It is now harder to "miss drag" a hero while in trophy mode, which would result in giving him a trophy by accident.
    
  • A few seconds into the preparation phase, the trophy icon will remind the player if there's a potential hero that can be ranked up by using trophies. For instance, if the player has 2 trophies (10 XP), and the hero that is closer to a rank up needs 8 XP, it will notice the player, but if the hero closer to a rank up needs 13 XP, it will not notice the player. Notification UI: The trophy will flash and slightly bounce to notify the player.
  
  
• XP required to rank up has been increased at higher ranks. It now increases exponentially instead of linearly.
  XP required per ranks
  
  • Before: 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100
    
  • Now : 20, 30, 40, 55, 80, 120, 170, 250, 500
• Fixed an issue that allowed dropping a hero to cause a bug which would not drop the hero on a hex, and all heroes would not be draggable anymore.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed the player to open menus while dragging a hero which would also cause the issue mentioned above.
  
• 100+ typos fixed, and improved and more consistent descriptions (more to come).
  
• Fixed an issue that caused visual bugs while previewing epic version of rare items.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused some items in the enchant panel to be draggable.

And some other small minor fixes!

I made some general improvements and some additions:

- some other game section/environments
- the paths you choose will affect the whole game
- added achievements, and added things to interact with
- made it clearer where the secret areas are
- some very simple puzzles
- some random event
- some other music
- other little things..

I hope you enjoy the update!
Edd

New companion type: slums brawlers.
- You'll need a murder squad. Equip them via your phone.
Anxiety is now implemented.
The crash team has had an overhaul.
There are some new supply packets.
Triage now mostly uses supply packets.
You can now bring up Your wheels from most pinned accommodation cards.
There are a couple of new clothing items.

New artwork.

Fixed various minor bugs and typos. Thanks for the reports!

Join us for our weekly dev stream!

We implemented tags so uploaded dungeons can be tagged and filtered. We'll do some testing on that and then we're going to have some fun building a dungeon by randomly choosing what items/objects/tiles I can include in each room. Should be fun!

We'll be interacting with the chat so feel free to come chat with us and share any questions or suggestions you might have about the game.

We stream Super Dungeon Designer every Friday at 8:30pm ET on Twitch and to our Steam page.

Give us a follow on Twitch to get notifications when we're live:

https://www.twitch.tv/squish_studios

Wishlist from our store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172920/Super_Dungeon_Designer/

Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/squishstudios/super-dungeon-designer

• decrease XP requirements
  
• bugfix: summoned flame active duration now pauses when it should

Revel in the wonders of Yi Ling's menacing appearance. With its sharp beak and even sharper feathers, it makes us ponder: How will Yi Ling integrate with the eclectic wildlife of Aberration? We are anxious to see how the ARK community and Aberration treat our new arrival on ARK: Survival Ascended.



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Let's take a trip down memory lane as we embark on our journey to The Center for our next Community Creature Contest. What will be the fan-voted real-world creature that will launch with the map for ARK: Survival Ascended? 

Please note that this creature will be released for The Center, so make sure your real-world submissions are in theme with that map! As previously stated, we’ll add an additional real-world creature for each expansion pack map release on ARK: Survival Ascended.

Check out the Creature Submission Guidelines for more information on the submission process, and hop over to the Creature Submission Forum to see the current entries. We are looking forward to seeing your ideas come to life!

• The entry period will end at 1 PM Pacific on August 14th.
  
• The voting will begin immediately after and end on August 21st at 1PM Pacific. 

Make sure to check our Twitter on August 14th for the RankedVote link!

*Note that the proposed features for the creatures from the submission entry are meant to inspire their design, but certain aspects may still be modified.


We've made some changes to the creature submission process that you can see below:

• A single person or entity can only win once.
  
• Posts will no longer merge with similar submissions.

Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, August 7th.
All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.

• Official Servers: 2x XP, Harvesting, Taming and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x hexagon
  
• Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, Harvesting, Taming and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x hexagon
  
• ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x hexagon
  
• Conquest: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x hexagon

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Creator: BritishTexan
The sweet gaming grandmother, BritishTexan, embarks on a journey to the icy fields in search of Prisminium Gachas that were custom-made for her 60th birthday!


Creator: Veno and Raasclark
Veno and Raasclark are back with another Dingle Cup Contest. This time, they are making dinosaur hybrids to battle them out! What kind of atrocities will they create?




Welcome to Eden by @WolfTek7


Meet Ducky and Quaks by @SoyDrys


Guess what is my fav mount! by fan-da-engraveri


Warfare by l-system-l


Managarmr by mios-axe


Tek armor by unordinarylynx


His mutton chops were predictably short-lived. by fritzmetzger




Screenshot by Wuwb(a)


Screenshot by lizard4318


Screenshot by BigMama85


Enjoy your weekend!
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