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- Website: yogventures.com
Pledge $15 or more
7069 backers
A full copy of Yogventures on PC and Mac! You will also get access to the game during the closed BETA at the end of the year. This low price is only available to those who have kickstarted Yogventures!
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $25 or more
3404 backers
All previous + You will receive ALPHA access, a full month before the closed beta! You'll also receive exclusive registration to the development forum - where YOUR input will shape the direction and features added to the game.
Estimated delivery: Nov 2012Pledge $30 or more
759 backers
2 full copies of Yogventures on PC and Mac! One for you and one for a friend! You and your friend will also get access to the game during the closed BETA at the end of the year. This low price is only available to those who have kickstarted Yogventures!
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $60 or more
965 backers
All previous + VIP access to a special "founders" area on the development forums + Access to PRE-ALPHA development builds TWO whole months before the beta + We'll send you a beautiful POSTER featuring digital art from the game similar to the images seen here! Designed exclusively for the kickstarter campaign by our extremely talented concept artists!
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $90 or more
980 backers Limited (1520 of 2500 left)
All previous + You'll get a special T-shirt designed exclusively by the Yogventures concept artists! (available in a range of sizes/colours) + Your name will be added to the game's credits!
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $200 or more
93 backers Limited (907 of 1000 left)
All previous + You'll receive an awesome high quality print of concept art from the game SIGNED by Simon and Lewis as a thank you for your support!
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $300 or more
120 backers Limited (880 of 1000 left)
All previous + You'll receive a limited edition "Deluxe Collector's Edition" featuring a whole bunch of amazing stuff - including the following: Yogventures on DVD, Soundtrack CD, Yogventures comic book, Yogventures themed playing cards, Honeydew plushie and much much more!
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $500 or more
37 backers Limited (463 of 500 left)
All previous + A numbered and limited edition high quality collectible painted statuette of Honeydew and Xephos looking totally badass! Also you will get the opportunity to name a special weapon, NPC or location in Yogventures! It could be you who forges 'Dave!'s Axe of Axing' (+12 to Axes) for all other players to wield in their Yogventure!
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $750 or more
36 backers Limited (214 of 250 left)
All previous + Sponsor and choose a block or creature to be added to the game! We will contact you and work with you to add a custom block, apparatus, decoration, creature, NPC, weapon or other item of your choice into the game! You will be thanked in the patch notes, development videos and listed in the credits when your request is added!
Estimated delivery: Dec 2013Pledge $2,000 or more
1 backer Limited (49 of 50 left)
All previous + a personalized "thank you" video will be made specifically for YOU by Lewis and Simon with some exclusive behind-the-scenes content and posted unlisted on YouTube then e-mailed to you! (so you can choose to share it or not)
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $5,000 or more
5 backers All gone!
All previous + your Minecraft character gets to become a character in Shadow of Israphel! We'll invite you to join us while we film an episode of Shadow of Israphel and you will play a part in the adventure! Will you aid our heroes or seek to hinder their adventure? The choice is yours!
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $10,000 or more
5 backers All gone!
All previous (including walk on role in Shadow of Israphel) + 'Have lunch with the Yogscast!' You and a guest will be invited to join Simon, Lewis and members of the development team to talk about the game, SoI, the finer points of Jaffa Cake consumption and anything/everything else! You will also get the opportunity to pick up some exclusive swag, pose for pictures with the gang (we suggest practicing voguing and your 'Blue Steel' look in advance) and have the greatest (lunch)time of your life! The event can be scheduled either during this year's E3 in Los Angeles, California or later this year in Bristol, England. You will need to provide your own travel arrangements.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2012
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Show older commentsCreator Chris Holt about 3 hours ago
Its been such a long time since i've heard any news from you guys and the Beta is now 6.5 months overdue. I've pretty much lost almost all interest in the project. Yogscast hasn't posted a new yogpod since Halloween as well. Can you at least include Oculus Rift support out of the box for this game since its taking so long to get stuff together? While you're at it, implement a control scheme for the Hydra as well would be great.
Creator Winterkewl Games LLC about 10 hours ago
Hi guys, sorry there hasn't been an update in a little while. We're working on multi-player and when that's finished we're going to release it to the rest of the backers. It's certainly not finished but it's coming along and a lot of fun to play together in the sandbox.
We're also bringing on additional programming help so hopefully progress can continue to speed up from here on.
Sorry for the delays, thanks for all the support!
Creator Christopher about 12 hours ago
Has there been an update that I missed or has there just been very little activity in the alpha zone lately? I'm just afraid that I didn't receive an update link or something.
Creator ltm123 about 13 hours ago
Ok, i have been waiting for ages for new uptates, whats going on?
Creator Winterkewl Games LLC on June 7
TUG looks fantastic we happily helped back their kickstarter. The more games in the genre the better, it's not an either or thing. More games to play means more fun for players! :)
Creator Bud1980 on June 7
Well looks like you guys might lose all your players now that TUG is on kickstaters there getting the game worked on alot faster and there already getting mods ready for the game
Creator Winterkewl Games LLC on June 3
@Chops, Hopefully you've been receiving the emails with the links to the game, if not please email me at winterkewl@gmail.com and I'll make sure you get those.
If you're referring to the physical rewards, the Yogscast are handling those themselves and have setup a separate email address for questions about them: yogventures@yogscast.com. They haven't given us a ETA yet, but they are working on them and should have more information in the near future. Thanks!
Creator Chops on June 3
So is there a reason why my backer reward is taking so long to get here? I gave $300 and still haven't received anything yet.
Creator ByTheKilowatt on May 27
I still can't place a reason for why I dislike playing the Alpha builds... I've just went from complete excitement to ignoring the updates that have been released...
Maybe I expected way too much of this or it's that The Yogscast have never mentioned the game since it was successful... Like it's some sort of taboo that they don't want to talk about...
I just don't know what to think anymore, if any of that makes sense.
Anyone else feeling the same way? It'd put me at ease to know someone else is still confused about all this...
Creator spencer on May 26
Thank you : ) i cant wait
Creator Winterkewl Games LLC on May 25
@Spencer as soon as we get multi-player fully working, sorry don't have a solid ETA but we're working hard to get it out. Thanks!
Creator spencer on May 25
When is the close beta
Creator Winterkewl Games LLC on May 16
@Ryan, your reward tier is for 2 copies of the game when it hits Closed Beta. We're working on that release now, and when it's finished you, and all the rest of the remaining backers will get the notification and access to the game. Sorry for the delays, we're almost there now, we just must beg your patience a little while longer. Thanks!
Creator Ryan Wands on May 16
I haven't received any emails or gotten any links to download the game. Any help?
Creator Winterkewl Games LLC on May 13
The funny thing is, that the rest of the systems are actually much easier and less time consuming to implement due largely to the fact that we made the decision early on to use the Unity engine. As a result much of the remaining systems are already well along, it's just that without a working procedural sandbox the rest wouldn't work. That's the main reason I'm so optimistic for the future of Yogventures, now that our custom hybrid procedural voxel terrain generation engine is nearing optimal performance. Things like multiplayer and map making, crafting, dialog branching, AI etc all of these other systems we've either already implemented before or there are a lot of examples and existing API's to aid in development.
The one thing I will say is that there will never be a time when we simply throw in the towel. We're in this until Yogventures delivers on everything we want it to. Thanks!
Creator mycale on May 13
Wow, thanks for the extensive answer. Yes, the delays have been explained well. The main problem I think is that the difficulty of the technical side will increase the more the feature set is completed and the more systems interact with each other. If landscape generation currently is such a problem, and I know marching cubes are hard to implement, I dare not imagine the time it might take to get all systems implemented, especially physics.
But I can hardly stay mad after such a sincere answer. It's reassuring that additional staff will be on bord
Creator Winterkewl Games LLC on May 13
It's always hard to hear a backer is disappointed in our progress, but I appreciate and understand your sentiment mycale.
I hope and feel, that the delays in production have been pretty well explained already, so I won't get back into those here. I can only apologize for the mistakes I've made and work as hard as possible to fix the problems and get the game working as soon as we can.
I do feel like we've made a lot of progress but I agree there is a lot more left to do. The one thing I want to say is that there isn't a day since the kickstarter ended that we haven't worked hard to try and live up to and be worthy of the support all of you backers have given us.
The problems we've faced have been mostly technical in nature and for that I take responsibility. Up till now I have been the only programmer and it's true that given the schedule we tried to set I just wasn't able to fix all the problems fast enough to get features implemented and stick to that timeline.
However, we've definitely turned a corner recently on the terrain problems and are about to bring in extra help on the coding front as well.
I know this may all seem too little too late, but I hope that everyone will bear with us a little longer because I really believe in Yogventures and can't wait to see what adventures you all create and share in the future.
I can't say sorry enough, both for the initial overly ambitious promised delivery dates, and for the buggy terrain problems that have plagued us so far. All I can do is continue working as hard as possible and hopefully when we are finished everyone will agree that the work was worth the wait.
Creator mycale on May 13
I begin to seriously doubt the ability of Winterkewl to deliver on what was promised in the Kickstarter. Updates have been few and far in between and Progress seems tremendously slow. Yogventures is still pretty much in Pre-Alpha after about one 1 of development with virtually no functionality. Comparing the kind of Progress Blockscape, Masterspace or even Starforge makes to Yogventures.... Well you can probably read that I'm more than disappointed of what has been shown so far.
Creator colininchina99 on May 13
I have a mac. I downloaded the game when v.0.1 came out. I was so excited. I opened my game and created a new world. It was slowly loading in the bar then yogventures crashed. Ever since then whenever I try to open the game it crashes right away. Even after the patches it keeps crashing. Please help!
Creator ByTheKilowatt on May 12
@owmasa
What kind of bread do you bake?
Creator FallingFist99 on May 10
Feedback of the latest patch (From a mac p.o.v):
I loaded up a world, and this time, I wasn't merged in the ground. The framerate had improved from 0-1 to about 5-8, which is awesome for an alpha patch. I then loaded the game up on my brother's computer, and achieved playable speed. I ran around for a while, worrying about the lack of content in the game.
Surely, there must be more soon, but in how near of a future?
Creator Winterkewl Games LLC on May 9
@mrminiaaron the next patch should help your situation, if your mac has specs at least as good as a mac mini that is. Thanks!
Creator mrminiaaron on May 6
i have just downloaded alpha on my mac but it runs really slow and lags loads. is there any way to solve this?
Creator Nicolaj on May 6
Hey Winterkewl it could be awesome if you guys could add sharks in the water and maby add a jungle biome and monkey there are living in the jungle and a werewolf monter when its night!
Creator Avandris on April 25
Ah great, thanks!
Creator the ev on April 22
Avadris - the t-shirts haven't been made yet. i think we'll probably receive an email when they're ready to reconfirm addresses etc. there's no eta that i know of. the yogscast are handling that part of the rewards as they have more experience with merch.
Creator Avandris on April 21
Curious if anyone has received their t-shirt yet? And when we should expect to receive it?
Creator the ev on April 16
oh weird the comment went all out of order :/ disregard the last one as it's not exactly current.
nicolaj - winterkewl's fixing the memory leak, then working on multiplayer. beta will probably come not long after that. taken from the forums" "A new point release will be available soon that will help those having memory issues, and the beta is getting closer all the time."
http://kristafer.blogspot.com.au/ - check out the blog he keeps for a much more detailed explanation. all if it is over my head, but other may get more insight from it :)
Creator the ev on April 16
sadtaco - if you join the forum you'll see more of what's going on. winterkewl tells us more there than he will on the kickstarter, because that's what the forum is for. you do realise that winterkewl can't keep us updated every single say right? a month can actually pass without anything interesting to report. the lastest we've been told is that he's working on the memory leak bug.
Creator Nicolaj on April 15
Hey Winterkewl, i just wanna ask if the closed beta are on the way? :)
Creator the ev on April 8
Joshua - the physical rewards aren't ready. from winterkewl "The physical rewards are still being manufactured so none of them have shipped quite yet. As soon as we know more we'll make a proper Update and let everyone know ETA's etc. Thanks for your patience and support!"
Creator Joshua Farrant on April 7
Just realised I pledged the $60 for the poster, had totally slipped my mind! Have these been sent out yet guys or are you waiting until the game's in later stages?
Cheers!
Creator Winterkewl Games LLC on April 5
Hi Owmasa,
First, thanks very much for your generous pledge! We really appreciate all the support. Second, according to the records you selected the $30 reward tier which is good for 2 copies of the game when we reach the "Closed Beta" milestone. Right now we're in "Alpha" and working hard to get to that "Closed Beta" mark. The main feature we're working on for that is one more round of terrain optimization to try and fix the memory usage problem people in the Alpha have reported having as well as the multi-player portion of the game. Once the multi-player is in and tested we'll release "Closed Beta". That's when you'll receive the game links. Thanks!
Creator owmasa on April 5
Hi, I´m a baker since 05/05/2012 and I have not received any link yet to download the game.
Why?
Creator the ev on April 1
SM Kioko, Jr. - physical rewards are being developed by the yogscast. it's not like they had them ready to go as soon as the campaign ended. it's called patience. you need to have some. we'll get the physical stuff WHEN IT'S READY.
Creator Winterkewl Games LLC on March 31
Hi everyone,
Here are some tips to help try and get the game running on your computer.
1. If you're running Windows 8 some people have reported that the 64 bit version of the game didn't work for them, we suggest trying the 32 bit for now and will have to do more windows 8 testing. To be honest we haven't got a test machine with windows 8 at the moment but we will try to get one set up asap.
2. Make sure you are running the right version of the game for your computer. A number of players have found that they actually have windows 32 bit when they thought they had 64 bit. If the 64 bit isn't working try the 32 bit instead.
3. if the game doesn't run initially, try lowering the graphics settings. This can only be done in the Yogventures configuration screen that pops up as soon as you launch the game. Set the "Graphics quality" down to "Fastest" and then hit the play button. If the game still doesn't launch then please submit a bug report with as much information about your computer as possible.
4. Make sure you enter something in the name and seed boxes when you create a new game. Alphabetical and numerical numbers and letters are the best, punctuation and spaces are allowed as well.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working on solutions to try and make Yogventures! require less CPU and RAM but as we are only in Alpha these things do happen and all we can do is work as fast as we can to address the issue.
Thanks!
Creator SM Kioko, Jr. on March 31
Alpha isn't working for me it never responds i sent the problem to the bug forum
Creator SM Kioko, Jr. on March 31
I am a backer and i want to know what happened to all my rewards i want my stuff now it's 2013 FFS
Creator sadtaco on March 31
it is a bit laggy are you fixing that or is my computer slower than i thought?
Creator Allyson on March 31
I have a problem! I just downloaded ALPHA. I fixed my settings got everything ready.....and then it started up. Black screen and said it wasn't responding. So I tried again, same thing. I then restarted my PC and tried again....it did it again! I've been wanting to play this game ever since I pledged $25. Please help!
Creator the ev on March 30
can everybody please remember that this is an ALPHA build and that you WILL experience issues. my first go around with pre-alpha i was constantly falling through the world.
if you experience a bug PLEASE submit a bug form. they get checked a lot more frequently than the comments, emails or the forum.
http://www.winterkewl.com/games/yogscast/BugForm.html
winterkewl has been awake for DAYS to get this build out on time. so keep your rage in check. alphas and betas are for weeding out bugs. it's our job to tell him about them.
Creator Nrobria on March 30
So I have a more than capable machine, but moment I launch the game, it just stays on a black screen and doesn't do anything, gives a no response and just hangs. Any idea what is going on? There's no error code it just simply hangs and won't do anything.
Creator Winterkewl Games LLC on March 30
We're certainly going to try and support a minimum spec as possible, it's just right now the game is a very CPU/RAM intensive application. We'll continue to refine and optimize as new versions become available though. I'm really sorry the experience wasn't good for you and will do our best to lessen the burden on the computers.
Creator FallingFist99 on March 30
I'm not at all unhappy, not at all.
First thing I noticed: Upon launching the game and regenerating a new level, I started falling through the ground and couldn't move. After a restart I noticed that the game was unplayable due to my specs.
Could you possibly make a 800x600 resolution option? I'm on a mac by the way.
Creator arron simpson on March 30
THANK!
Creator arron simpson on March 30
just chacking since its the 30th being as chis said the 30th is doable is that still on has the aptha come out yet if not any clue i keep chacking the foroms and i dont see anything about it yet just woundering
Creator sadtaco on March 30
How soon is "very soon"?
Creator Winterkewl Games LLC on March 29
Hi Chris,
The reason we don't post as much here on the Kickstarter site is that any update is auto spammed to everyone on the list. The whole team is working hard to get Alpha out this weekend so there will be another big update coming very soon. Sorry for the delay, thanks for your patience! :)
Creator the ev on March 29
we get a lot more progress reports from winterkewl via the forum chris, you should sign up.
Creator Chris Holt on March 28
haven't seen an update from you guys in over 2 months. Sad Panda!