Author: 0xc3e3d13d98b84e1808c4145355c0cade20a2fc98
Update Status: On Time
Project Health: 
On Track
Introduction
In the third month, our IWB game creator teams were highly productive, implementing significant updates that enhanced the experience for both builders and players.
Highlights
Our 3D team has continued creating candy-themed fantasy assets in addition to new steampunk themed assets. To date over 99 3D assets have been completed and all of these highly detailed 3D assets are currently available to the public for use on our Github. A number of these assets have 1 or more animations, adding more options and customizability for creators to use in their scenes. 3D also optimized the 3D colliders on existing Game Creator assets in addition to renaming animations for more consistency.
Coding updates!
- Export Scenes to Genesis City
- Updated God Mode
- Added “New” filter for catalog assets added within the last 7 days
- Improved optimization and deployment times by removing catalog assets and introducing a new way to search / add assets to your World
- Added “show height limits” indicator for your worlds
- Added dropdowns to the Scene Asset panel for better searching and filtering of scene assets
- Added a backup feature to save your Worlds
- Added more actions and triggers
- Mini map is now clickable and expandable to see your entire world
- Added a “Live Show” component to manage your live events, messages, triggers, actions, screens, animations, from within your scene live
- Multiplayer lobby joining, team balancing, and game starting
- Game variables, player variables
- Custom UI fonts for on screen texts
- Added new “Grab translation” so while holding an asset you can move it, rotate it, scale it
- Enabled scene privacy / enabled modes
- Bug fixes && ui improvements
- UI text can now hook into scene variables
- Improving scene ↔ server listeners
- Added game types (solo, multiplayer) and lobby settings, spawn locations, loading screens
- Add dialogs to your scene
Our Game Design team came up with a new way to optimize the loading experience for IWB worlds and exported IWB scenes. Creators can now select which catalog assets they would like to build within IWB without needing to load all 900mb worth of assets every time they build. This change massively speeds up IWB world deployment times and scene loading times.
Our User Interface and User Experience team has continued their work with coding and game design to provide a robust UI and toolset while keeping the game creator as simple as possible for creators to build their own gamified experiences.
Our QA and Testing team has been working through our QA script testing document. This Test Script document has over 500 test scripts which thoroughly test a large percentage of Game Creators features. Throughout testing this month, our QA team has discovered over 40 bugs which have been added to our Trello to be fixed by our coding team and then retested by QA. QA began testing on our new 3D assets.
Blockers
We do not have any known blockers at this time.
Next steps
Over the next month our 3D team will continue creating steampunk themed 3D and animated assets. Our coding team will finish core backend design and begin the final testing for many of Game Creator’s features. Our Game design and User Experience teams will continue working with our coding team to design the best functionality and flow of our new game creator features. QA will continue testing in addition to testing new 3D assets and animations. We will be updating our existing In World Builder in the next week or two with new features from our Game Creator toolset for the public to use for building. Bug testing will still ongoing for actions and triggers, so these features will not be complete when released to the public in month #4. (August 2024)
Additional notes and links
Helpful links
Game Creator 3D Github
In World Builder - Coding Github