Updates, insights, and community highlights
Bots got a real brain upgrade, spawn areas now come from maps, goldflow is pathfinding-driven and visible, and we tightened up placement/targeting and editor behavior.
Read More →Towers now focus the real threats, campaign income respects your level settings, range indicators are back in campaign, and lobby joins use your actual username.
Read More →Unified tiles across editor and game, water now renders in Test Map, pathfinding respects roads and water, and wall towers scaled correctly to 1.0.
Read More →In‑game tilesets now match the editor with multi‑elevation support, plus a cleaner editor workflow and big progress in the AI Training Lab.
Read More →We simplified the match HUD by hiding experimental view toggles in production, standardizing minimap mode for all live matches and reducing confusion.
Read More →Same-screen dual-board view is in, multi-board rendering is cleaned up, and lightning damage now matches the visuals. Plus a pile of fixes to input, effects, and UI.
Read More →Road connectivity upgrades, reliable map generation, smarter bots, and stability fixes across client, server, and validation.
Read More →Procedural multiplayer maps now flow through the campaign map system, castles render correctly (including the main objective), and performance jumps to near-60 FPS with major renderer and material fixes. Plus lobby and campaign HUD polish.
Read More →Tightened up the Share to Reddit flow with a clearer text overlay, true preview in the modal, strict character limits, and a screenshot upload fix.
Read More →Smarter team-aware bots, cleaner restarts with fixed VFX/audio leaks, sharper damage feedback, and a bunch of small UX wins.
Read More →Campaign now matches multiplayer for info panels and range rings, endless mode gets auto-spawns, movement precision and flamethrower DPS fixed, plus a unified Official Maps browser and deployed level editor.
Read More →End-to-end community level sharing is live in the Reddit app, campaign gets freer tower placement and a proper border, and minions move smarter. Lots of asset and data plumbing cleaned up.
Read More →Visual clarity upgrades, a new campaign wave preview, major projectile performance fixes, and a more stable Reddit single‑player build.
Read More →Campaign progression landed, roads now constrain minion paths, the level browser got a split-pane redesign, and we shipped a big batch of placement/pathing fixes and editor QoL.
Read More →Beam towers got real targeting rules, AOE towers got smarter, the minimap/UI saw polish, and the level editor hit big milestones with sprites, camera controls, and one-click testing.
Read More →Cross‑platform desktop auto‑updates are in, plus a stability fix for a crashy background service. Mostly infrastructure today aimed at keeping matches smooth.
Read More →First functional desktop build with GPU acceleration, restored music/SFX across platforms, sturdier navigation, and better crash handling. Also cleaned up some noise and added Linux packaging.
Read More →Game speed controls, smoother minion paths, smarter camera swapping, quick-add bots, a small UX cleanup, and a refreshed Jobs page.
Read More →Laser and god-ray damage now line up with their visuals, new fire/laser/flame VFX, cleaner audio, and clearer castle impact feedback. Mostly feel-and-readability work today.
Read More →Big VFX pass, level-based tower scaling, depth sorting, and a round of performance fixes for smoother PvP matches.
Read More →Big usability pass on Test Arena (free placement, unlimited gold), a new Delete key for quick sell/destroy, clearer health bars, HUD sorting/layout tweaks, and a fix for projectile upgrades.
Read More →New game mode system with a dev-only Test Arena, lobby/UI polish, four new Lord minions, selection UX tweaks, and a pass on production stability and build paths.
Read More →Parallel asset preloading, reliable XP awards, new XP header UI, audio pooling, and a rendering cleanup for smoother matches.
Read More →Today’s work focused on making sign-in flows reliable, preventing server-start failures, and cleaning up the match monitor UI. XP awards are now correctly filtered to humans only.
Read More →Guest-first login is live with optional email registration for XP, plus a database upgrade to PostgreSQL 18 and sturdier Redis handling.
Read More →New in-game music with volume controls, cleaner mobile UI across Level Up and Bottom Bar, and backend monitor fixes for smoother event tracking.
Read More →Replays now process every tick with real timestamps for accurate gold, waves, and movement. Also fixed premature game shutdowns on disconnects and cleaned up Redis log noise.
Read More →Fixed a nasty server/client desync on tower placement, added clickable castle stats, and cleaned up a handful of reliability and UI issues.
Read More →Big pass on mobile landscape UI and touch controls, cleaner HUD, better local-network connectivity, and infrastructure fixes to keep matches stable.
Read More →Critical income desync fixed, cleaner minion pathing, a first pass on sound effects, and smarter bots. Also some balance tweaks to gold and health.
Read More →Spawn points can now be destroyed, ownership highlights are consistent, bots stay in sync, and the UI gets a few clarity boosts and hotkeys.
Read More →Critical pathfinding validation fix, new level bonus choices, smarter bots, and a round of UI + performance improvements.
Read More →Massive set of changes this week, making the game more fun and bug free
Read More →Team-wide income, a smaller battlefield, cleaner level-ups with playstyle filters, auto-balanced lobbies, and big CPU/GPU wins. Plus key aura and bot fixes.
Read More →Bots now self-identify through auth, lobby controls for bot teams/playstyles, and a wider, more stable lobby with clearer server status. Backend tightened to track bot vs human consistently.
Read More →Visual clarity pass (glows, ranges, auras), minion level rework with speed and health, and a big bot logic cleanup for better castle defense and upgrades.
Read More →Fixed a nasty resync desync, clarified combat info in the UI, added minion level stars and castle health bars, and shaved off GC spikes for smoother PvP.
Read More →We cleaned up the TowerStorm website routing, shipped a stable deploy, and tidied a small code issue. No gameplay changes today—just making links and pages load the way they should.
Read More →Tower selling now works end-to-end with 50% refunds, clean projectile cleanup, UI polish on the InfoPanel and How‑to‑Play page, plus some backend housekeeping.
Read More →Time-series performance graphs landed, bot reporting got accurate, and the bot service now launches from the right place. Mostly infrastructure today to keep PvP smooth.
Read More →Stabilized metrics routing and Redis connections, fixed major bot desyncs, and made Spikes AOE behave. Plus UI polish, deployment cleanup, and groundwork for matchmaking iteration.
Read More →Minions now gain 10% max health per enemy castle your team destroys, adding momentum to successful sieges and new counterplay windows.
Read More →New Turret and Super Laser towers, on-path Spikes/Wind control, electricity visual polish, and a new balancing tool to keep PvP tight.
Read More →Lobby stability fixes, clearer server-down handling, and a new Speed Booster tower with an attack speed aura. Also some quality-of-life polish in the games list.
Read More →Introduces the Soul Eater tower, a dark-themed unit Encyclopedia, two new minions, and a replay desync fix plus a small damage rounding tweak.
Read More →Economy-first bot revamp, a 120s pick-phase timer, lean 3v3 lobbies with auto-rejoin, and a few solid fixes to keep matches moving.
Read More →MTG-style color identity with resistances, a full spawn upgrade system with real income scaling, and a sturdier loading flow that actually tells you what went wrong.
Read More →Bot tower placement now considers coverage, new tower upgrading to level 5 with star visuals and UI, plus minion economy/health rebalance and monitoring tweaks.
Read More →Wave timer and level-cost desync fixes, smarter bot tower/spawn decisions, and a big red desync overlay. Plus monitoring, autoscaling, and a few quality-of-life touches.
Read More →Interpolation for 60 FPS visuals, shared path validation to stop bot grief placements, and clearer desync handling with deeper tick logging.
Read More →Deterministic pathfinding, fairer level-ups, a clearer win screen, and an early-game ice tower tweak—plus a big push on stability and networking.
Read More →Aura visuals moved to the renderer for smoother PvP, TypeScript cleanup across the board, and our first AWS/CDK deployment with Redis in place. Plus a handful of stability fixes on server boot and UI polish.
Read More →Bots now show up in lobbies in real time, replays capture both teams, and we cut all blockchain code while landing a cleaner AWS CDK v2 deploy.
Read More →Replays are in, games recover after restarts, and bots behave better. Plus structured logging, monitoring, and a new writer tool to keep updates flowing.
Read More →Real-time matchmaking lands, bots get personalities and better decision-making, and we fix projectile timing so mortars and boulders behave correctly.
Read More →We finished the shift to a centralized server, fixed multiplayer sync and gold/income tracking, overhauled the lobby flow, and got bots running on the server.
Read More →Big pathfinding and GC optimizations, smarter bots with a new modular brain, economy tweaks, and some post-match UI fixes. Smoother matches when building and better practice games.
Read More →Economy-minded bots, a cleaner match start flow and HUD, new grass battlefield with minion shadows, tower shoot VFX, plus on-chain usernames and stability fixes.
Read More →New Laser Beam tower, real spectator mode, smarter bot defense, and a pile of stability fixes. Keyboard controls and HUD tweaks round it out.
Read More →New Ice Tower slow, God of Justice instant smite, Gold Booster economy play, and a stack of VFX/animation fixes. Castle damage logic got stricter and fairer.
Read More →Earth, Fire, and Flamethrower towers hit the arena with stuns, explosive AOE, and continuous flame damage. Plus fairness fixes for bot income, HUD clarity, and a bunch of projectile and renderer improvements.
Read More →New multi-threaded bots with better brains, a simpler win condition, cleaner tower placement, and UI hints for tower progression.
Read More →Deterministic sim and high-latency event syncing, plus new damage-boost aura visuals and build cleanups.
Read More →Smarter minion pathing, a new death-and-decay tower, cleaner UI with team colors, and smoother guest onboarding. Plus a round of fixes and alpha infrastructure upgrades.
Read More →Damage booster tower with an electricity beam and aura system, smoother gold/wave sync, and a major rendering overhaul. Plus clearer placement rules for the new 7-castle layout.
Read More →Stabilized level-ups and the action queue, added an in-game Wiki, and split the core contract to stop random state errors. Smoother matches across the board.
Read More →Individual player economies are in, blockchain actions are now queued and seamless, and the new Corpse Exploder tower brings reactive area denial. Big performance gains and a round of UI polish.
Read More →Wave countdown now respects team selections, Shadow Bolt joins the roster, and we tightened the combat/rendering loop for smoother, more deterministic play.
Read More →Deterministic wave timing tied to blockchain blocks, animated minions, a full projectile system, and a big refactor into Tower/Castle/Minion managers—plus a lot of fixes to catch-up, placement, and rendering.
Read More →Minion spawning is live, tower animations are back, and the UI now supports a clean two-board PvP flow. Plus a deterministic sim core, rendering, and lobby foundations.
Read More →First day notes. We set the foundations, expanded the map, and dropped in three castles to shape early PvP flow.
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