Venture the Void

Devlog

• 1.5.5 - Huge invisible code refactoring
  September 08, 2021 by Kitty Lambda Games

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  #cancelled, #not cancelled

  Huge update, months in the making! It doesn't improve or change anything at all :P I did a ton of refactoring to make the code base more managable. This update includes those changes. Please tell me i... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.4 - New World File "Sofu" + some fixes
  August 18, 2020 by Kitty Lambda Games

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  #vtv, #space, #development, #sofu

  This update adds a new world file, "Sofu", and also fixes a bug relating to destroying transports. Because there are now more than 4 world files, you'll need to scroll down to see it when you create a... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.3 - World file "Sof"
  May 07, 2020 by Kitty Lambda Games

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  #venture the void, #world generation, #procedural generation, #variables what do they do

  I've been mostly working on Paradise Never the last month, so just a new world file this month. The universe generation has an input "difficulty" parameter. I don't know what it controls. I don't know... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.2 - World file "Shellie" + some fixes
  April 07, 2020 by Kitty Lambda Games

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  #frustum, #fustrum, #fustum, #frustrum, #culling, #debug, #evil spirits, #flavour code

  First up-- this release has bug fixes in code as well as a new world file, "Shellie". Your old saves and old world files from 1.5.1 will stil work. View frustum culling-- or is it view fustrum culling... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.1 - New World File "Tenebrae"
  February 29, 2020 by Kitty Lambda Games

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  #happy spacefaring, #venture the void, #space exploration, #opengl, #boredom

  Today's release will include a new world file, "Tenebrae". Other than that, it's identical to 1.5.0. About Tenebrae: The world generation parameters are the same as for Zephira; only the seed is diffe... Continue reading

  
• Venture the Void 1.5.0 - How to keep your saved games
  February 01, 2020 by Kitty Lambda Games

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  #see you space janitor

  This update is a shader compatibility test. It replaces the OpenGL 1.2 fixed-pipeline renderer for the starfield with an OpenGL 2.x shader-based one. I would love to know: Does the game run for you? D... Continue reading

  
• 1.4.4 Fixes, Flying Into Outer Space Tutorial
  May 04, 2019 by Kitty Lambda Games

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  #outer space, #moon, #magical gem

  Pushing a 1.4.4 release today-- I accidentally pushed a couple updates without the fixes in place, so if you saw the game update a couple times already please hang tight, the "real" 1.4.4 should be co... Continue reading

  
• Tutorial Vid: Flying Around Planets
  April 29, 2019 by Kitty Lambda Games

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  #tutorial

  Here's a new tutorial video showing how to fly around planets. Might work as a nice little unscripted gameplay-o-dio-dio if you were curious about the game. I'll be making more of these as time goes o... Continue reading

  
• Fixed: Vaccines, Dialog Traps, Aspect Ratio
  April 25, 2019 by Kitty Lambda Games

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  I've been picking away at this fixing things and then pushing updates; before I launched I made sure I had a "press one button to update the release" thing and it's been really great. It's so easy for... Continue reading

  
• CommLink bug fixed
  April 20, 2019 by Kitty Lambda Games

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  Just a quick update here! There was a really bad bug where if you had CommLink open and you entered a building, or vice-versa, one or the other would become unusable and you'd have to exit the game. P... Continue reading

  
• OpenGL 1.2 => 3.3 Hmm
  April 19, 2019 by Kitty Lambda Games

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  #opengl

  The fun thing about VtV for me is: No pressure; I'm already happy to have just gotten it out there Kind of a crazy canvas to mess around with There are a lot of things I can do to mess around with Vt... Continue reading

  
• Veture teh Vod - Starting to Fixing Things
  April 18, 2019 by Kitty Lambda Games

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  Just a quick bump here as to what I'm doing. When I set up VtV to release on itch I made it so I can easily push updates and fixes, and I even intentionally left some really obvious bugs so I could ha... Continue reading