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# Weekly Update 12/12/2022
**Game Design**
Finished Inventory and Inbox\
Added basic Push Notifications\
Started Events research and design
**Backend team**\
we worked on various projects this week. On the feature development:\
— Facility resource boosting, depending on the terrain map tiles near your village\
— Favorite map tiles: you can now add tiles to your favorites list, to access them easily\
— Collect system on facilities, so you can collect the resources generated by your resources facility\
— IAP: instant finish a facility build/upgrade\
— Updated the facility descriptors\
— Some refacto to update various rules
**The tech improvements:**\
— A new dev server with better hardware\
— Implemented the Swarm cluster in the dev server for wider tests
**Infra & middleware :**\
— Few perf updates, new servers and scalability enhancements
**Analytics :**\
— features in building and almost live (live attack count, live stolen resources, currently playing players, unique players, …)
**NFT :**\
— You were waiting for them … 5000 new apes are coming in a branch new shape just for you.
**3D team**\
this week I finalized the concept arts of the 25 monkeys, I also remodeled 2 of the monkeys armor based on the new concept art to represent the evolutions of the monkeys more correctly.
**Game Design**
Finished Inventory and Inbox\
Added basic Push Notifications\
Started Events research and design
**Backend team**\
we worked on various projects this week. On the feature development:\
— Facility resource boosting, depending on the terrain map tiles near your village\
— Favorite map tiles: you can now add tiles to your favorites list, to access them easily\
— Collect system on facilities, so you can collect the resources generated by your resources facility\
— IAP: instant finish a facility build/upgrade\
— Updated the facility descriptors\
— Some refacto to update various rules
**The tech improvements:**\
— A new dev server with better hardware\
— Implemented the Swarm cluster in the dev server for wider tests
**Infra & middleware :**\
— Few perf updates, new servers and scalability enhancements
**Analytics :**\
— features in building and almost live (live attack count, live stolen resources, currently playing players, unique players, …)
**NFT :**\
— You were waiting for them … 5000 new apes are coming in a branch new shape just for you.
**3D team**\
this week I finalized the concept arts of the 25 monkeys, I also remodeled 2 of the monkeys armor based on the new concept art to represent the evolutions of the monkeys more correctly.
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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