Editing User blog:OnePartyThisTime/Lobby Page Concept

The '''Lobby''' is the main spawn point for players to congregate and plan strategies, it includes many features such as leaderboards, elevators, matchmaking, and events.

The current '''Lobby''' has all of the features stated below:

* The Survival Statue, Hardcore Statue, Special Gamemodes Statue, the Challenge Map Statue for Matchmaking, and the temporary PVP statue.
* The Like Goal for the [[Pursuit]] Skin.
* The four Survival Elevators, and the one Hardcore Elevator.
* The Most Triumphs Leaderboard and Highest Level Leaderboard.
* The crate opening building, which serves as the area where players see what they received from their crate.
* The PVP area, which is opened temporarily.
* The event area, where its door will close during the time an event is not active.
The lobbies below are listed in order from newest to oldest lobbies.

== Spring 2025 Lobby ==
Lobby Usage: 12 March 2025—Present 

The '''Lobby''' takes place in an enclosed factory surrounding the players, it is grassy with trees. There are buildings like the survival building, the crate building, the PVP arena, and the event temple. There are other parts like the matchmaking statues, these include; the survival statue, the hardcore statue, the special gamemodes statue, the challenge map statue, and the PVP statue. Other features like the leaderboards are present around the lobby. The survival elevators have a group of four and a hardcore elevator of one. The like goal is a new addition of the lobby, which formerly included the Vendor Farm skin, but is now replaced by the Prototype Pursuit skin, as the like goal has been reached. There are statues that don’t do anything in the lobby like the bloxy award statue, a Minigunner statue, a commander statue, and a player holding an island. 

==== Ducky Revenge ====
Lobby Usage:  16 April 2025—Present

The '''Ducky Revenge Lobby''' takes place in a sink, where the players are above water, you are first greeted by a [[Mega Duck]] and a [[Ducky (Ducky Revenge)|Ducky]] when entering the portal. Walking more forward will show you a promotional area for the [[Mecha Bunny + Nerd Ducky Mini Plush]], and a milestone area for you to check rewards for beating hard mode of the [[Ducky Revenge Event]]. At the end will show you the area to play the event, with [[Ducky D00M III]] as the matchmaking statue. 

==== The Hunt: Mega Edition ====
Lobby Usage: 12 March 2025—24 March 2025

[[The Hunt: Mega Edition Event|The Hunt: Mega Edition]] '''Lobby''' takes place in a retro styled forest with dead blue trees & regular trees with different flowers on the ground. From entering the green portal, it will show you to the reused portal from [[The Hunt Event|The Hunt]], where you can choose what gamemode difficulty you want to play. There was a secret behind the portal which was a [[Ducky (Ducky Revenge)|Ducky]], teasing the [[Ducky Revenge Event]].

===<big>Music & Ambience</big>===
{{Soundtrack|
{{GalleryHeader|Main Lobby Music}}
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(Official) Tower Defense Simulator OST - Spring Lobby (Evergreen Theme)|12 March 2025—Present
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{{GalleryHeader|Event Lobby Music}}
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(Official) Tower Defense Simulator OST - Ducky Boom|16 April 2025—Present
(Official) Tower Defense Simulator OST - The Hunt|12 March 2025—24 March 2025
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{{GalleryHeader|Ambience}}
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Tower Defense Simulator Ambience - 2025 Lobby|12 March 2025—Present
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===<big>Gallery</big>===
{{Gallery|
{{GalleryHeader|Permanent}} 
<gallery>
Spring2025Lobby.png|The Spring 2025 '''Lobby'''.
PVPArenaSpringLobby.png|The [[PVP Test|PVP]] arena.
CratesBuildingSpring2025.png|The crate opening building.
EventBuildingSpring2025.png|The event temple.
LikeGoalPrototypePursuit.png|The new like goal.
SpinWheelSpring2025.png|The [[Spin Wheel]].
SurvivalBuildingSpring2025.png|The survival building.
MatchmakingStatusSpring2025.png|The matchmaking statues.
MatchmakingPersonSpring2025.png|A statue of a player.
MinigunnerStatueSpring2025.png|A statue of the [[Minigunner]].
Leaderboard1Spring2025.png|A leaderboard.
BloxyAwardSpring2025.png|A bloxy award statue.
Leaderboard2Spring2025.png|Another leaderboard.
CommanderStatueSpring2025.png|A statue of the [[Commander]].
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{{GalleryHeader|Ducky Revenge}}
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DuckyRevengeEventArea.png|The event area of the [[Ducky Revenge Event]].
NerdDuckPlushArea.png|The promotional area of the [[Mecha Bunny + Nerd Ducky Mini Plush]].
MilestonesSpring2025.png|The area where you can check the milestones of rewards you get for beating hard mode.
DuckyRevengeGamemodeSelection.png|The area where you can play the event.
DuckyRevengeEventPortal.png|The event portal where you enter and leave.
DuckyRevengeSecret.png|A secret in the event lobby where the towers enter in the first cutscene of [[Bathroom Approach]].
</gallery>
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===<big>Trivia</big>===

* This is the first lobby to include a like goal inside the '''Lobby'''.

===<big>Update History</big>===

* '''12 March 2025''' - [[v1.57.0]]
** Spring '''lobby''' added.

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