Post Void news & patch notes

Hi again everyone! Christopher and Josef here again.

Firstly, a massive thank you to everyone for the feedback and such an amazingly positive reaction to Keep Driving. We have been completely blown away by your comments, especially on Twitter, where things absolutely blew up! Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun and PC Games even gave us a shout out already!

You can watch the reveal trailer below if you missed it.

Today, we're excited to let you get hands-on with our first-ever demo for the game. You’ll get a taste of things to come as you spend a weekend driving to your friend's house to play a video game, encountering hitchhikers, taking odd jobs, and keeping your vehicle running on the way. You’ll get a sneak peek into our procedurally generated world with its naturalistic pixel art, a couple of endings including a specially made main story for the demo, and an awesome but limited (for the demo) soundtrack by local indie bands Westkust and Crystal Boys! We’d LOVE to hear what you think of the demo, so feel free let us know on Twitter, or join our Discord, which will become more active in the coming months. Cheers! Christopher & Josef

Hey! As some of you may know we are painfully business savvy. So with that in mind we decided to, instead of building on a game and aesthetic that sold really well; instead of making a post void 2 or something similar, we decided to make a game that's completely the opposite. A game that's slow, with muted colors, and no murdering things. Anyway, It’s been in the works a long time (directly after post void) and we’re pretty excited to be able to reveal it now. Featuring: a procedurally generated world, a naturalistic pixel art, multiple endings, a soundtrack composed by local indie bands, and more. You’ll embark on a journey on the road, where you’ll pick up hitchhikers with their own personalities and stories. You’ll also customize and repair your car so that you can solve the challenges of the road using a pretty (we think, at least) unique turn-based ‘combat’ system. Hope you guys take a look at the new trailer even though it's so different from Post Void. We’ll be sure to provide all updates to keep all of the game’s followers in the loop on the actual game page. Any questions or thoughts that you have about our reveal trailer – let us know! Be sure to follow us on Twitter and join our Discord, which will become more active in the coming months. Until next time! Cheers! Christopher & Josef

PS5 and Switch limited edition physical boxes - stickers, trading cards and an artbook. Comes as a standard box or steel-book with a cover drawn by us. Unfortunately no PC box. I suppose, however, that the steelbox is multipurpose. More info here: https://superraregames.com/collections/post-void {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37527017/d76d4ca2af521780d4432c75978b0be210ca4bcb.png xox Y/CJ/Y

We're happy to announce the release of Post Void 1.4. This version of POST VOID adds some features that were created to the recently released console release of POST VOID.

UPDATE:

It seems this build was somehow crashing for a lot of players. We have temporarily reverted back to the older version, but will try to resolve this asap. For now, if you want to try the new version you can choose the public beta-branch to access it. Build is now live again and should not cause crashes anymore. Sorry for the inconvenience!

NEW FEATURES:

GAMEPAD SUPPORT

POST VOID now supports gamepad controls. We're very happy how the gamepad controls ended up and worked closely with porting developer Zach Reedy who did an amazing job with them. All buttons are rebindable and the game works perfectly on the Steam Deck. (Verification on deck should soon be approved, but it works very well already)

LOCALIZATION

New languages are now available in the options menu, the following languages are available: - English - French - Spanish - German - Dutch - Korean - Japanese - Traditional Chinese - Simplified Chinese - Arabic - Russian Thanks to Super Rare games for letting us use the localization for the console version for STEAM. Extra thanks to Isla Pleasure Partridge for the Russian translation and Malek Al-R. and Montassar Ghanmi for the Arabic localization.

MONTHLY LEADERBOARDS

As an extra little feature we decided to add Monthly leaderboards to POST VOID. These will be reset at the start of every month. Looking forward to compete with everyone for the top spots every month!

IMPORTANT NOTES

This new version should run better overall as it's been optimized very well. You might, however, notice that the game will start with the tutorial again and you will need to re-apply any settings you've set in the old version, as the saves are handled differently. Don't worry about your high-score though. As long as you've submitted to the leaderboard once, your game will load your high-score from the steam servers and set it locally. There is no way for your score to be overwritten on the main leaderboard. Thanks for everyone who plays and enjoys POST VOID Cheers, Christopher & Josef

Finally POST VOID is available on consoles! Playstation 5 version will release as soon as possible. Playstation 5 users can still purchase and play the PS4 version and upgrade to free when the PS5-version releases. We're very happy with the implementation of the controls and worked alongside Zach Reedy who developed the port of the game and did an amazing job! There will be a new patch released soon which implements gamepad controls for the PC version! More info on this very soon! Cheers, YCJY

As some of you might know, POST VOID was developed in the game engine Game Maker Studio 2. We're very happy to announce that we've been nominated for BEST GAME in the Game Maker 2021 Awards! You can go in and help us win by voting here: https://www.yoyogames.com/en/blog/gamemaker-awards-2021-vote-now (all games are made with game maker) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37527017/f18383ae58caf0f72671c0625b59aa6ef718ba1d.png Super stoked for this! Thanks for all the love and support for POST VOID! Cheers, Christopher & Josef Y/CJ/Y

M M U U S S I I C C V V I I D D E E O O

7" SINGLE VINYL PRE-ORDERS

https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/240060 https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/240060 https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/240060 Love, J & C

Today we're celebrating made it in the TOP 250 best rated games on Steam! and TOP 15 in the under $5 category!

https://club.steam250.com/app/1285670 No idea how legit this is but we're super happy either way.

Post Void is on sale!

AND restock on merch! https://merch.whycjwhy.com/ https://merch.whycjwhy.com/ https://merch.whycjwhy.com/ AND, this is fun, we want to make a physical 7" Single LP of the soundtrack: https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/240060/ycjy-x-karlflodin-post-void (if it doesn't work yet, hopefully it will soon, when it goes live) THANK YOU EVERYONE! (seriously, you made life better) But, we shall remember: Do not stare too deep into that fair world where desire is reality and pain is unfurled by the dripping tongues of admiration. It is but a reflection without your eyes and without your voice, without your lies and without your noise; a silver ocean under a sky of unrecognizable bodies countless unknown gods gathered for shared stories. Bathe, but do not drown; cleanse yourself, but do not exhibit nor parade; keep the fear hidden and keep going past the fair world and into The Void. xo Christopher & Josef Y/CJ/Y

We think we can win the "SIT BACK AND RELAX AWARD" ...BUT if not, then maybe: "BEST GAME YOU SUCK AT AWARD" "OUTSTANDING VISUAL STYLE AWARD" {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37527017/547f6d36b37bbe578851179e7f29df6134b93f1d.png Cheers / J & C

POST VOID Hello, Christopher here, programmer and 1/2 of YCJY. First of all I want to thank everyone for all the great reviews given to POST VOID! We finally have a new patch out for POST VOID. It has some smaller fixes that should up the performance and enjoyment of the game without removing anything. NEW PATCH Here are the patch notes: -fixed a bug which sometimes made enemies spawn on top of each other -fixed a bug which would make the player get out of bounds (and sometimes crash the game) -fixed so you can pause in the tutorial (so you can invert your y-axis at the start of the game etc) -added some major improvements to how the memory is handled (should reduce lag) -added an artbook with Josef's concept art and some early ideas we had for the game. You can find this in the game files (right click game in library -> manage -> browse game files) -added a reworked grain shader made by our good friend Jonatan Söderström of Dennaton Games (Mostly known for Hotline Miami 1&2). Be sure to check it out!(by enabling grain in the video options) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37527017/e4190fc10cf5001cc478c944b3dfd7f32f3da120.png (Preview of a page from the artbook) FUTURE We've had quite a few requests of extra game-modes like endless modes or some kind of survival-mode etc. At first (when we just had released the game) we thought about maybe adding something like this, but the more we thought about it, the more we realized it would go against the main vision we had with POST VOID in the first place. With POST VOID we wanted to make a focused, cheap and intense little game were we could focus on iterating and improving a simple game loop as much as we could. Endless mode (which is probably the most requested feature) would require some major re-balancing and could easily end up being more of an endurance-test rather than a test of the player's skills. We believe the identity of the game could easily be lost by adding and forcing new modes and features onto it. As of now, we've already started working on a new, much bigger, project, that we've planned for quite some time. It will be VERY different from POST VOID, or any game we've previously worked on. Thanks again, everyone who as played and enjoyed POST VOID. We're really proud of what it became and that so many seems to enjoy it! Cheers, Christopher & Josef, YCJY Games Oh and by the way, we have a merch store: https://merch.whycjwhy.com/ Most of the stuff is sold out but we will order more stuff soon! (More posters and T-shirts!)

INDIE ARENA BOOTH

The time is has come for free, virtual, game festivals. This seems to be the biggest there's ever been. To check out our booth and over 180 other games you just have to make an account here: https://online.indiearenabooth.com/ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37527017/d461b40fd88bc6ed0e01cbe3688de64b45891d4a.gif

Twitch

If you want to watch us stream we'll be on here hanging out playing post void drink beer and checking out other games. we don't have any exact times, so follow us on twitter and facebook for when we go live. https://www.twitch.tv/ycjygames

MERCH

We've had a few questions about merch and now we finally got a site. unfortunately all the posters are already sold out but we will order some more + t-shirts and something else. https://merch.whycjwhy.com/ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37527017/6284c78de535dfac2debab7c13b3f7a1a2dd7f45.png

TRADING CARDS

At last we got the trading cards, badges, profile backgrounds and emojis up on steam so you can unlock all that. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37527017/4175c7ba550a76b51c769823a5b06786d8695078.png Hope to "see" some of you this weekend Cheers, Josef & Christopher twitter facebook twitch discord

POST VOID Now available for purchase! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37527017/7b2a78ca151657725ccc7e2f6c43aecb976d9457.gif Run fast, keep your liquid and try to reach for the top of the steam leaderboard! The game is 33% off on the launch week! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37527017/f26ab7500eee842361484309554b7f5437177541.gif