# Weekly Update 05/12/2022

**Game Design**\
Created Inventory Wireframes and Mechanics + created new ticket for it Added Main HUD Bottom Menu logic and ticket Added Inbox (Messaging) Mechanics and ticket Updated Map Block logic and ticket<br>

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**Backend team**\
We worked on various projects.\
On the product development part:\
— Main Hall ! It’s one of the key features in the game and some cool stuff are coming very soon\
— Stone resource: the stone is now one of the main resources in the game\
— Building Queues: we finished it this week, now a builder system is implemented\
— Reworking the resources generation: it will soon be a click-to-collect system with various boosts coming from the Terrains, Main Hall and other boosters\
— Terrains and Tiles rules: some new tiles are coming in the map like forests, mountains etc… That could boost some part of your village\
— Map generation script, to bootstrap a new map easily\
— Limited Time Features are still in progress

**On the tech part**\
— A new Analytics internal system, based on a MongoDB database, that will help us track key events\
— CI improvements\
— Tests for an Infra on Swarm\
— We’ll soon add a BullMQ implementation to have a good task queue (on top of Redis)

**Concept art**\
I worked on concept art for the 25 monkeys of the game, it should be finished soon, meaning that we will start the modeling of all of them.

**3D team**\
this week we released a video in 3D, giving more information on the lore of monkey empire and a secret group of apes.

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The whole Monkey Empire team wishes you a nice day!

See you next week for the new devblog episode and don’t forget to ape!

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