Traverse The Void

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Richard Hoagland · RalphVR

Planned release: Coming soon
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 11:59 GMT

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17 Feb 2021Developer post
Demo v3 is now out!
New demo available! Significant changes and updates to go through. Major Changes Checkpoint system - you can now set checkpoints during levels to save temporary progress Key and lock system - you can now add keys in levels for players to collect in order to unlock doors and dynam
New demo available! Significant changes and updates to go through.
Major Changes

Checkpoint system - you can now set checkpoints during levels to save temporary progress
Key and lock system - you can now add keys in levels for players to collect in order to unlock doors and dynamic paths
Inventory System - each hand has an inventory slot. health, keys, etc. can be placed in slot
Treasure System - can add treasure to levels to be collected.
Locomotion Updates

Camera based walking - now is the default, with option to switch to controller direction
Coyote Jump - preparing for jump you know enter a slide state which keeps momentum if jumping fast enough. This allows for increasingly longer jumps when chained together, and the ability to maintain momentum upon landing from a jump.
Level Editor Updates

Snapping - turn on grid snapping to more easily align agents to each other and terrain
Locked Doors- requires key to unlock
Dynamic Paths - set a path in the editor that will generate terrain during the level when the player places a key on the pedestal
Treasure Chests - add treasure chests to levels for optional challenge
Spiker - new obstacle
Crusher - new obstacle
General Updates

4 new levels
Tracks time of completion for levels
Tracks treasure collected per level
New graphics and textures for agents
FX updates and audio updates
Bug fixes
Starting next week I will be implementing a new method of distributing updates so folks interested have access to more current builds. Stay turned for more info!
As always, for more info join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/NHjARMVtKG
Thanks for reading,
-r
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01 Dec 2020Developer post
Traverse The Void Demo 2 is now available!
Second demo of the game is now live. Below is a list of additions and fixes. As always, I am very appreciative of feedback. Demo 2 v0.1.3 Additions Voxel Types: Terrain can now be painted different textures. Each texture or "type" has different properties of: durability, climbabl
Second demo of the game is now live. Below is a list of additions and fixes. As always, I am very appreciative of feedback.
Demo 2
v0.1.3
Additions

Voxel Types: Terrain can now be painted different textures. Each texture or "type" has different properties of: durability, climbable, dps.
Parenting: Dragging an agent on top of another parents them together. This is how you can make a moving path. The UI for parenting needs some work, which will be in the next update.
Paths: You can now draw paths (for now only strait lines). An agent attached to the path will move along it.
Player movement updates: players movement is faster, with some improvements to grab detection.
Info Spheres in levels: Yo can now add text in levels using info spheres.
Added 4 new levels
Save migrations. As I will undoubtedly break old saves quite a lot early on, the game detects an older save and will migrate the file to the new version.
Fixes

Fixed issue where player would launch into the sky...:P
Fixed choppiness of walking
Added strafing
More info spheres in Hub
Added info spheres to level editor
Reset gravity on level exit
general bug fixes and things I forgot I fixed
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13 Nov 2020Developer post
Notes from the developer.
Hey folks, Richie here, developer of Traverse the Void (TTV). I have been meaning to write this post since the first TTV demo went live in October. How Traverse the Void started TTV began as a prototype for an interactive art project. The prototype was an infinite procedural terr
Hey folks, Richie here, developer of Traverse the Void (TTV). I have been meaning to write this post since the first TTV demo went live in October.
How Traverse the Void started
TTV began as a prototype for an interactive art project. The prototype was an infinite procedural terrain to fly around...and it was boring :) With more work it may have led to interesting art, but it felt like a poor use of VR, and more fun when I climbed the terrain! So I built a second prototype, taking the code for procedural terrain generation and turned it into a simple level editor. This proved interesting, so for the past six or so months I have been expanding the level editor and terrain system, while I work on the player locomotion and mechanics for the game.
How I am developing Traverse the Void
The reason I am explaining the origins of the game is explain why I am approaching development the way that I am. After several years of spinning wheels with prototypes that never saw the light of day, I decided I needed to fundamentally change my method of development. My new method can be summed up with three maxims:
Maxims for development

Get the game into players hands early and often for feedback, and don’t be afraid to look stupid.
Game development is a marathon, not a race.
Let the systems and mechanics co-design the game.
The first demo of Traverse the Void was released in October.
It was rough, had dull visuals, and was played by all of 38 people! Importantly though, it led to me learning a lot about things to fix in the game and how to interface with folks about the game. The second demo will be released Dec. 1st, with updates from the few wonderful folks who took time out of their day to offer in-depth feedback. Based off of feedback from the first demo, I will soon be launching the TTV discord channel, to streamline the process for folks offering feedback. I would say the first demo failed the race, but hopefully by adjusting from mistakes made, we are now doing better in the marathon.
Speaking about marathons
The games visuals are one of its weakest areas. I figure this will cause most folks to not take a second look. At this point, I am fine with TTV passing under the radar for most folks, if in the process every demo and new update brings TTV closer to a great game and a few more players. For this reason great visual and style is not a high priority (yet)...trust me though, I would love to make the game look great, I just think there are more important core aspects to develop. My priority for the next few months is to thoroughly explore the the player mechanics/movement in conjunction with the terrain creation/destruction system. Of course, listening to what players have to say is a top priority as well.
About Early Access
The upcoming major milestone for TTV is to enter Early Access. However, the game will not enter EA until I feel the game stands on its own enough to warrant charging for it. So until that time, I will continue development, continue updating the demo, and continue looking for folks willing to offer a little bit of feedback.
Thanks for reading!
-R
There were more variety to the graphics in the first demo, but a few bugs led me to keep them out until I could make sure they were fixed. Still pretty barren though...
You can see the new terrain types better in an editor view.
A full post on changes will be online when the new demo is live.
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