KickTraq

I just posted this on Hacker News, thought I would share here as well. The HN community was instrumental in getting my campaign funded, so I just wanted to say thank you. I also wanted to thank the investors who offered through HN, your offered... (Read More)

http://www.twitch.tv/gavanw I think we will almost definitely make it at this point so long as no one withdraws - thank you guys so much! I'm going to attempt to clean up the perspective camera a bit more and launch an announcement on Hacker News for... (Read More)

Christmas comes early this year. :D Well, it is still very rough, but a good working proof of concept.  Performance is awesome, given that this was built in a week, while running this campaign.  Much room for optimization, cleaning up bugs,... (Read More)

http://www.twitch.tv/gavanw (Read More)

So, this is just a preview image, I have to tweak a few things but I am able to load the VQ world into a perspective view like this one, I just want to clean up lighting a bit before I show that.  Here I'm showing some voxel hemispheres, without... (Read More)

I have another podcast with the Australian game site WorkInBeta.com: http://www.workinbeta.com/?p=1046(My interview is somewhere around the middle) Also, I'm happy to announce an upcoming partnership with Curse.com for our wiki hosting (I will... (Read More)

Click to visit M.O.R.E.  If you enjoyed Master of Orion (like me), you may want to give M.O.R.E. a look. This is their second time coming to Kickstarter (IIRC), but it appears they have made good use of their money so far and have quite a mature... (Read More)

Reward Additions------------------------- Topaz Badge ($50): 1 vote token Emerald Badge ($100): 2 vote tokens Sapphire Badge ($250): 5 vote tokens Ruby Badge ($500): 10 vote tokens Diamond Badge ($1000): 20 vote tokens Use these vote tokens to vote... (Read More)

Head over here: https://twitter.com/gavanw/status/527377412565114880 All you have to do is retweet the message (yes, I can and do validate the retweets) and then click the button embedded in the tweet.  Then you will automatically be entered for a... (Read More)

Hey all, did a podcast with some of the guys I met in the Limit Theory forums, tune in here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXghAfB70cwor here: https://soundcloud.com/skyfligher/the-weekly-fligher-podcast-worth-watching  (Read More)

http://www.voxelquest.com/chat.html http://www.voxelquest.com/forums.htmlChat uses Freenode.  You can also pop out the forums with the link at the top of the forum page to get a fullscreen mode, because at the moment they are a little cramped.  I... (Read More)

One of the creators has been a loyal follower of VQ, thought I would give them a tiny bit of publicity here: Click to visit Highlands  (Read More)

There are now more $100 (Emerald) rewards available, and the limit was lifted on Humble Badges (should have never been there in the first place).  This does not inflate the overall rewards, since I reduced the higher tiers to make room (reduced... (Read More)

Thanks to users Flatfingers and Talvieno for showing me this post, it really nails a lot of the mentality I am shooting for. http://laurenandlloyd.com/lloyd-stuff/i-want-to-bake-bread/ Also, a shout out (ping me if I forget to give you one, I get... (Read More)

http://voxelquest.vanillaforums.com/The domain is temporary, I'll map it to something better soon.  I tried hosting on Discourse prior, but did not really like them because they were (IMHO) trying a bit too hard to be "modern" and did away with a... (Read More)

Just wanted to say "thanks" to a few "big-swingers" who have gone out of their way to promote VQ (and really, ALL of you who have backed/promoted have my biggest thanks, I just thought you might be interested to see who else is talking/backing) -... (Read More)

Hi every, just want to let you know that I'm not going to stream for a few days because I need to concentrate on implementing a new feature.  It's going to be 99 percent me writing code, which is not entirely excited in terms of watching in a... (Read More)

Please Introduce YourselfI'm always curious to know who is backing.  Please (if you want), leave any or all of the following: Your name, your job/school (and/or stuff you've worked on in the past), your twitter handle, anything else you want to... (Read More)

http://cliqist.com/2014/10/19/gavan-woolery-voxel-based-rpg-roguelike-sim-hybrid-voxel-quest/ (Read More)

If you are running a KS campaign (or more importantly, planning to) you might find this advice helpful, or at least you can contribute your thoughts and experience to validate the hypothesis.... (Read More)

Tonight, by request, I added in some snow and glaciers (they asked for a new biome, I suggested snow).  Joining us tonight (or just lurking around) was: Jeremybanks Mystify89 Tamat(s) Teatime05 Tugimus (IronClad) Yorakki Zuleyus Bonejamon (others... (Read More)

http://www.twitch.tv/gavanw (Read More)

Voxel this, voxel that. It seems the damned things are everything there days, to the point that just hearing that a game uses voxels makes me groan a bit. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised with Voxel Quest, an expansive RPG meets Roguelike meets Sandbox hybrid from Gavan Woolery. Far from being some kid with a dream, Gavan is an experienced developer with a dream. To learn more about him, his inspirations, and his plans for Voxel Quest, we tossed some questions Gavan’s way. (Read More)

Here are a few more one-way promos (read my update on this if you have not already). Graywalkers is another one I was set to cross promo, but then decided to promote for free.  However, Russel (the creator) jumped the gun and promo'ed me anyway.... (Read More)

Just a little update from today's Twitch stream - by user request, I created a spherical brush, you can see it in action here (this is running at 1x, not sped up at all):  (Read More)

Drop on in...I'm working on a spherical brush right now for adding and subtracting voxels. http://www.twitch.tv/gavanw  (Read More)

Fellow Kickstarter, backer, and all-around awesome guy Aaron Ethridge, creator of Worlds of Magic (a 4x game by Lucid Dreamers) did something very nice.  His campaign is already long-past over, but he sent a shoutout my way, and gave me some good... (Read More)

Ok everyone, just trying to drive some additional people to the campaign, so I am testing out a service called Kickdriver (someone who works there emailed me, I get many promo offers but this one seems decent). With this promotion, you can get some... (Read More)

http://www.twitch.tv/gavanw This time I'm actually going to try and get some stuff done so I may not answer as many questions - sorry! Also now I'm streaming via direct ethernet instead of wifi, might help a bit if there were any quality issues... (Read More)

Join us at: www.twitch.tv/gavanw See the game in action, make requests, ask questions. :)  (Read More)

http://www.twitch.tv/gavanw I'll try to stream on my channel every now and then (I'm streaming as of this post, still getting setup though).  Totally new to streaming, so help me out if there is a problem please.  Thanks!  (Read More)

StatsWe have not gotten any coverage other than Hacker News and a few relatively niche blogs and forums.  Many game sites have covered my work in the past including Rock Paper Shotgun, Kotaku, and Destructoid, so I don't think its because this is... (Read More)

Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in one place will make it easier to educate yourself on the projects you’d like to back, and which ones to run from. You’ll find two types of campaigns listed, “featured” and “the rest“. Featured campaigns are those that contain a significant amount of game information, are from known developers, or are significant in some other way. The rest of the games are usually smaller campaigns that are lacking in information, are from unknowns, have unanswered questions, or have not yet stood out for one reason or another. (Read More)

First of all, a lot of these questions are answered here, but I will copy and paste the Q&A here, with some additions from Reddit.  Questions are italicized, answers are not. The original thread spawned on (and I suggest you read it there for... (Read More)

I have to say, I am truly honored by everyone's commitment to this project, whether or not it works out I am happy that I at least struck a chord with some good people. We are still early and there has been relatively little coverage, so I think... (Read More)

Hi everyone, trying to get some visibility for Voxel Quest.  I've done a technical writeup about my progress over the last six months on voxelquest.com.  Please upvote on Hacker News (news.ycominator.com) if you have an account there.  Thanks! You... (Read More)

Backer Taren Skie asks: "Regarding VQ, Is there any information you can provide about gameplay elements? Not necessarily what's in the game currently, but more of a "here's what I have in mind" aspect. " Yes, there is a design doc located here.  It... (Read More)

A lot of people have been curious or expressed concern about how the game runs at a normal playback speed, so here is a video for you.  I am only showing two of the detail settings and with a bit more tweaking you can get some pretty good visual... (Read More)

Thanks to games like Minecraft and a litany of similar titles that have followed, many gamers (including myself) suddenly believed “voxel-based” games to be comprised of blocky shapes. Voxel Quest immediately proves this notion wrong with a world that looks quite attractive (and not outwardly like a Lego set). In any case, Voxel Quest is an isometric RPG that hopes to hook players with easy to learn but challenging to master gameplay as well as an AI storytelling mechanic. The latter is definitely something of note as most RPGs try their best to craft sprawling, important narratives. (Read More)