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Yogventures! ALPHA v0.01 is released!

Update #23 · Mar 30, 2013 · 25 comments

Hello Everyone!

We're happy to announce that today we are releasing the ALPHA version of Yogventures!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy90s0bAEp0

 The team and I have all been working very hard to reach this milestone and we're happy to be able to deliver this update. There have been a lot of improvements but the main thing this release adds is the very first look at character customization in Yogventures!

We promised there'd be "more than just changing skins" and to that we've held true. Many aspects of your player and non-player characters will be customizable and this release gives just a taste of what's to come in the future releases.

We simply can not thank you enough for all of the support and patience the community has shown us during this development process! We know it's hard enduring through missed deadlines and unplanned delays and we thank you all for sticking with us and giving us the time we need to develop the many difficult and demanding, yet super fun features of Yogventures! In the coming weeks we're going to be showcasing more, but for now please enjoy Yogventures! Alpha v 0.01 and if you have any questions please send them to

help@yogventures.com 

and please please report any bugs to

http://www.winterkewl.com/games/yogscast/BugForm.html


 We may not be able to answer each email, or fix any of the problems right away, but I promise we read each and every report and we're using your valuable feedback to keep help shape the list of tasks we have to fix as the game development continues.

 Until Next Time, Thanks Once Again, and Enjoy!

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Yogventures Pre-Alpha v0.05 is released! :)

Update #22 · Jan 20, 2013 · 23 comments

Hello and welcome to the Yogventures! Kickstarter Update #22!

Just wanted to make a quick announcement that Yogventures! Pre-Alpha v0.05 is now released and the links have all been sent to the "Founders" level backers. : )

http://youtu.be/o03SMxsds_4
Some of the things fixed and added to this version are: 
  •  Re-Worked Spawn location finder. 
  •  Re-worked saved data, might be able to reduce save size by 10 times. 
  •  Added the ability to delete saved games. 
  •  Fixed "duplicate grass" at ground level bug. 
  •  Added Corner Slant blocks 
  •  Added "wall" blocks 
  •  Added "wall corner" blocks
  •  Added "half short" blocks 
  •  Added "half tall" blocks 
  •  Added "quarter tall" blocks 
  •  Added "quarter tall" blocks 
  •  Added support for separate collision mesh for decoration blocks (optimized) 
  • Added 64 bit PC version of the game.

Thank you so much for your support! None of this would have been possible had it not been for the generosity of all of the backers!

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Pre-Alpha v0.04 is Released! (DOH!)

Update #21 · Jan 5, 2013 · 14 comments

A major bug was found by some awesome Backers almost as soon as we launched v0.03 so v0.04 is out way ahead of schedule! 

Everyone should have gotten the links now. Sorry about that everyone, welcome to software development, work's never done. :)

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Yogventures Pre-Alpha v0.03 is released! :)

Update #20 · Jan 5, 2013 · 4 comments

Hi everyone, Pre-Alpha v0.03 is released!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ylb6Wy7ZVI

One step closer to getting to the Alpha release. :)

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Pre-Alpha v.02 is Released!

Update #19 · Dec 27, 2012 · 14 comments

Hello Everyone,

We're happy to announce that Yogventures! Pre-Alpha v0.2 has been released to the "Founders" level backers. This update fixes a fair few of the bugs already reported to us by the players. There is a long way to go with the development of this game but we're very happy to have the assistance of the backers to help us identify and prioritize the bugs! This is exactly how we'd hoped the interactions would go, we'll release a version, you the backers test it and report back to us what bugs you find and what you like and dislike about the game, then we go back and keep making changes and improvements until it gets finished!

Again we can't thank you all enough and we're now working hard on fixing bugs and adding Alpha version features. The two main features we want to have finished for Alpha is:
Character Customization and Non-Cube blocks. When we have those two features in and as bug free as possible we'll release Alpha. We can't honestly predict how long that is going to take yet but soon as we have progress to show on both fronts we'll make another update and video. 

In the mean time please enjoy our 8th Video Log for Yogventures Pre-Alpha v0.2! and thanks again for all your help, without the backers NONE of this would be possible, so Thanks!

http://youtu.be/QKV9veMjVoc

ONE FINAL NOTE! The download links are in "The Cloud" and sometimes some servers don't update right away, if you download the link and you end up with the same v0.01 then please wait about 1/2 hour and then try the links again. The cloud service tells us that should be enough time to make sure all the servers get up to date files. Sorry / Thanks!

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