Dev Log for May 12th, 2025
Hello everyone! Welcome to the Tower Unite Dev Log for this week, which will have a new format!
Current Roadmap
If you missed it, here is our Post 1.0 Roadmap featuring the major updates to come. Not every update is listed in this graphic, but you can see more detailed development progress on our Trello or Discord!
What’s New?
Tower Unite Version 1.0 was released on April 19th, 2025! We are so appreciative for the response from you all! And thank you for any bug reports, reviews, feedback, and support!
Since the release, we’ve been making progress on the roadmap updates slated for post-1.0. Progress is being made on the various roadmap projects all at once.
Next Update: Update 1.0.0.1
This next update will be a brief interlude before the Workshop Rental Store to fix some bugs, improve controller support, and prepare for future beta tests.
Controller Support
With the release of 1.0, controller support is a feature near and dear to our hearts. This next update includes great improvements for controller support in Plaza and Game Worlds to the benefit of controller and Steam Deck users alike!
Here is an overview of the controller support features that will be added:
Game World Controller Support (ALL GAME WORLDS)
Menu Controller Support (Game World Select, Workshop Browser, Character Customization, Collection Book)
Force Feedback (Rumble)
Controller Icons
Scoreboard Controller Support
Settings Controller Support
Plaza Map Controller Support
Force Feedback (Rumble)
Controller force feedback will be improved across the game, adding rumble to various aspects of gameplay for all the Game Worlds. In Ball Race, bumpers will rumble like a bumper should, in Minigolf you’ll feel the slight taps of the railings and the HIO rocket, and in Little Crusaders you will feel the Dragon’s roar!
Controller Icons
With this update, we’ll also be adding controller icons that support multiple types of controllers. It will support Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, and Steam Deck controller icon sets.
Menu Controller Support
We’re also adding controller support to the majority of the menus, so you can enter and play game worlds, browse workshop maps, enter your Condo or other Condos, customize yourself, or check your collection book progress all with your controller.
This has been a huge undertaking and project! We’re still working on controller support, so some of the various aspects of the game such as the hot bar are still lacking full controller support. Support for those are still being developed, as they require more work than other parts of the game.
We are also working towards full compatibility with the Steam Deck and will have more news on that soon!
We will continue to add more controller support to the game in each upcoming update!
Public Betas
About a week and a half ago, we started our first public beta as a test run to help get feedback on the 1.0.0.1 update. The beta testing went very well and we’ll continue to use public betas going forward.
We’ll have more formal announcements that these are going on in the future now that we’ve done this initial try!
To learn how to participate in the public betas, and to give feedback before an update goes live, check out: Tower Unite Public Beta Branches!
Workshop Condo Rental Store
The Workshop Rental Store grand opening is just around the corner! This will be our next Major update!
A new expansion to the Condo Hub, the Workshop Rental Store displays both popular and recently released Workshop maps made by the community, allowing players to quickly grab them off the shelves and transport players to the map for easy browsing.
We are currently putting the final touches and will provide an open beta, so stay tuned and feel free to join in our open beta when announced.
Pets!
We’ve also been working on the new Condo pet system! We’ve made great progress on the pets, as they now have traits such as love and energy, and commands such as sit, follow, eating/drinking, and sleeping.
We’ll have more information on the big pet update that comes out after the Rental Store update!
Community Condos
Community Condos are dedicated user-hosted Condos. Since the 1.0 release, we’ve made great progress on the backend changes needed for the server browser required for Community Condos in the game. Work will continue to be done on this feature.
Surprise Planet Panic Updates?
If you follow our Trello, you may have noticed work has resumed on a Game World, Planet Panic! Planet Panic was one of our earliest game worlds, but we had complaints about the gameplay design and the vehicle networking. The game simply wasn’t up to our standards. Since then, Planet Panic has been in development hell, constantly getting pushed aside due to lack of interest both by our community polls and developers. But all hope is not lost…
We’ve recently discussed some new exciting designs for the gameplay, got some inspiration, and now have developed fully working UFOs with network prediction! With the new gameplay, we hope to add more fun and challenge to the original concept while keeping the cute style.
Progress is also being made on reworking some of the old maps as well.
That’s a Wrap!
That’s going to do it for this week’s dev log! Be sure to keep an eye out for the next one. We’ll be changing from our weekly schedule to a more biweekly announcement with more information than our old dev logs.
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