Ghostland Yard

Released: Oct 31, 2023
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 22:25 GMT

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28 Feb 2025Developer post
SPEEDONS
Hello everyone! Today at 3pm CET, Ghostland Yard is going to be speedrun at the Speedons event! You can find the event on the mistermv twitch channel "Speedons is Médecins du Monde ’s speedrunning marathon For 75 hours, donations are collected to finance their actions. Created in
09 Jan 2025Developer post
Base price change
Hello everyone and happy new year! It's been over a year since Ghostland Yard was fully released on Steam! We'd like to thank our community for their support and dedication, it's a real pleasure to see people competing for the best time. After careful consideration, we decided to
01 Jul 2024Developer post
Update 1.2.0
Optimization Ghostland Yard update 1.2 is now available! Today, we're pushing one of the biggest update yet, and you may not notice anything new! Yeah! As we prepare the console version of the game, we have made a lot of changes to the way data is handled in the game. The overall
Optimization
Ghostland Yard update 1.2 is now available!
Today, we're pushing one of the biggest update yet, and you may not notice anything new! Yeah!
As we prepare the console version of the game, we have made a lot of changes to the way data is handled in the game. The overall build size will unfortunately be larger, from 600Mb to 900Mb, but the individual scenes will load much faster. You may have to re-download the whole game as we have drastically changed the way we handle assets, sorry about that.
The main menu was entirely reworked, as the leaderboard panel and the stats info panel at the end of each stages.
If you experienced small stuttering before, rejoice, they should be gone now!
Also, we added a small modification on how the game handles resolution:
The game now supports ultra wide resolution! In a future update, we will add additional features to change your resolution, and change between fullscreen / windowed!
Here's the patchnote:

Main menu was reworked: going from 14.000 game objects to 2.000, making the scene loading way faster
Leaderboard panel was reworked and visually slightly improved
Stage endpanel was reworked and visually slightly improved
Background visual of every scenes was improved, expect some minor difference with the previous version
Changed time display separator from a xx : yy : zz format to a better format (thx Tara)
Changed how music variation was picked: music is now pick randomly between the different variation when you start a world
Chinese translations were improved
And a lot of other small improvements
Known issues:

The navigation in the scene selection menu is not as smooth as it used to be, but we will fix it in the next patch
The xenomorph and asteroids in the 6th world took some time off, they will be back shortly
The loading spinning wheel in the bottom right of the game sometime doesnt spin to win, and we dont know why and it's a minor issue, it might stay like that forever
We encountered a very rare bug: in speedrun mode after navigating in the options and trying to go back to the main menu, the game crashed. We were not able to replicate this bug, but if you encounter it, please let us know
As said previously, you may not see any differences between the previous version and this one, but we can guarantee you that we made a lot of modifications in the backend. We will write a devlog about this optimization update and the console version of the game in the future, so you will be able to see exactly how we made the optimization and why we made it!
This update has been very important for us, as it has laid the foundations for the version that will be on the console of our best plumber before the end of the year.
As always, if you see any issues in the game or if you have any feedback, do not hesitate to communicate them on our discord or steam forum. In the coming days we will hotfixes some remaining bugs and continue to polish the game.
Talk to you soon,
The Obelisk Studio team
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25 Jan 2024Developer post
Update 1.1.2.2
New languages Ghostland Yard update 1.1.2.2 is now available. Today, we're adding new languages into the game! We need to be 100% transparent: almost every languages were translated with the help of online translation tools (Google Translate and Deepl) . Menus are now translated
New languages
Ghostland Yard update 1.1.2.2 is now available.
Today, we're adding new languages into the game!
We need to be 100% transparent: almost every languages were translated with the help of online translation tools (Google Translate and Deepl).
Menus are now translated in the following languages:

English - Human made
French - Human made
Spanish -Human made
German - Human made
Polish - Human made
Italian - Online translation tools
Japanese - Online translation tools
Chinese simplified - Online translation tools
Korean - Online translation tools
Russian - Online translation tools
Czech - Online translation tools
Danish - Online translation tools
Dutch - Online translation tools
Finnish - Online translation tools
Greek - Online translation tools
Hungarian - Online translation tools
Norwegian - Online translation tools
Portuguese - Online translation tools
Romanian - Online translation tools
Swedish - Online translation tools
Turkish - Online translation tools
Ukrainian - Online translation tools
We are a very small team with very limited resources, we sadly cannot offer the services of professional translators for now.
However, we're planning to hire professional translators to check and re-translate the different languages when we have more resources.
In the meantime, if you see any mistakes or incorrect translations, please feel free to jump into our discord server or steam forum and leave us feedback, we will update the translations as soon as possible.
Talk to you soon,
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21 Dec 2023Developer post
Update 1.1.0
Ho ho ho! Ghostland Yard update 1.1.0 is now available! We heard that you enjoyed the music , but only 1 music per world (not counting the music for the race nor the one for the boss) is not ideal. While we lack the resources to create brand new soundtrack, our sound designer rea
31 Oct 2023Developer post
Launch Update
IT.IS.DONE. We are all very proud here at Obelisk Studio. This is it, after almost three years in the making, Ghostland Yard v.1.0 is now live. And it is live thanks to our dedicated players who helped us during the early access! This final update brings minor bug fixes, optimiza
IT.IS.DONE.
We are all very proud here at Obelisk Studio. This is it, after almost three years in the making, Ghostland Yard v.1.0 is now live. And it is live thanks to our dedicated players who helped us during the early access!
This final update brings minor bug fixes, optimizations, the long awaited cutscenes, brand new sound effects and improved sound mixing !
In the game, you can now find:

20 classic level per world
1 bonus race level per world
1 boss fight per world
6 worlds with their unique visuals, features and music
120 additional level -Apocalypse- with new and revisited stages
Friend and World Leaderboard
Replay mode
Race mode
Speedrun mode
Some great accessibility features
Ghostland Yard is our very first game here at Obelisk Studio. The studio started with two schoolmates, then a third joined and we officially created the company, then a friend joined us, now we're discussing with 3 additional people to join the studio.
~~This was quite an adventure~~
This is only the beginning of our journey!
What's next?
Now that the game is released on PC, what's next for Ghostland Yard and Obelisk Studio?
First of all, we won't be very far. Our discord and steam forum will remain open and we will keep a close eye to your feedback. If you find any weird situation or issue, do not hesitate to report them directly to us, we will do our possible to fix this as soon as possible. (kudo for Ampo one of or programmer who sometime patched small issues in less than an hour after the report!)
We started to work on our future title (we won't talk about this one before a veryyy long time), but we are also still working on the other versions of Ghostland Yard!
As said in a precedent post, we're working on the Nintendo Switch version! We will update the PC version in 2.0 once the console version is done, this update should drastically improve performances. (this update should happen Q2 2024). We will try to release Ghostland Yard on as many platforms as possible!
This project was made possible thanks to the incredible people who supported us during the development.
Talk to you "soon"!
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06 Sep 2023Developer post
Major Update #3: The Apocalypse - Part 2
Well, it is done. The final content update for Ghostland Yard This update brings the second part of the Apocalypse World! You can now fully enjoy (or hate because it's kinda hard) the Apocalypse World The Mountain Apocalypse The Submarine Base Apocalypse The Station Apocalypse Yo
Well, it is done. The final content update for Ghostland Yard
This update brings the second part of the Apocalypse World! You can now fully enjoy (or hate because it's kinda hard) the Apocalypse World

The Mountain Apocalypse
The Submarine Base Apocalypse
The Station Apocalypse
You now have 60 more stages to discover! Note that they are still no souls to collect in the apocalypse world, but you still have medals to earn!
If you enjoyed the bonus stages, you may be surprised with the 6th Apocalypse world..!
We added the Apocalypse World soundtrack to the game, we hope that you will like it! We also added for the Apocalypse World some new death sound effects.
Some bugfixes

The super-fast-rising-lava-bug was fixed
We introduced a critical bug with the last update, the final boss was not doable without checkpoints, it is fixed
There was some color issues on the apocalypse menus, it is fixed aswell
What's next?
We will release the game in 2 months and push the last content update, but this is not the end - yet!
We still have to complete the cutscenes and add some polish to the game - for example, a very big and obvious indication to press "X" to swap to the Apocalypse world.
Once the game is released on PC, we won't be far anyway, we'll still patch the game and fix what needs to be fixed, but we won't add additional content to the game: no plans for DLCs or sequel at the moment.
As usual, we are still eager to hear your feedback, do not hesitate to use the "feedback" panel in game or to join us on discord. Thank you very much for your support and feedback!
Talk to you soon!
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03 Aug 2023Developer post
Update 0.10.0.3
It's us again! Ghostland Yard update 0.10.0.3 is now available! This update brings fixes for bugs that we missed: Speedrun panel navigation now works as intended Apocalypse world speedrun has been fixed (it previously sent the player to the normal version of the world) Speedrun n
It's us again!
Ghostland Yard update 0.10.0.3 is now available! This update brings fixes for bugs that we missed:

Speedrun panel navigation now works as intended
Apocalypse world speedrun has been fixed (it previously sent the player to the normal version of the world)
Speedrun now disables god mode and bonus jumps on start
You can no longer send replays on the leaderboard with bonus jumps enabled in the options
You can no longer go out of bounds using moving platforms in Apocalypse 3.15
And that's it, do not hesitate to give us feedback or report any weird things you may encounter, we will adress it as soon as possible!
Talk to you soon!
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02 Aug 2023Developer post
Major Update #3: The Apocalypse
This is it, the third major update for Ghostland Yard is now available! Named "The Apocalypse" , this update brings the first part of the Apocalypse World! This bonus world is divided in 6 smaller ones, you can access the first 3 apocalypse world: The Caves Apocalypse The Castle
This is it, the third major update for Ghostland Yard is now available!
Named "The Apocalypse", this update brings the first part of the Apocalypse World! This bonus world is divided in 6 smaller ones, you can access the first 3 apocalypse world:

The Caves Apocalypse
The Castle Apocalypse
The Temple Apocalypse
You now have 60 more stages to discover! Note that they are no souls to collect in the apocalypse world, but you still have medals to earn!
This update will be split in two parts, the first part wont include the music and new sound effects for this world and will contain only half of the stages, the rest will come later this summer!
Still inspired by the early access of Against the Storm developped by the amazing Eremite Games, we are going to indicate which changes were inspired by the community with a 💎
💎Gameplay improvement
We made two improvement on the character controller based on your feedback.

Vertical coyote time
Jump-buffering for multijump pickable
The first one, the vertical coyote time, is working exactly as the horizontal one: if you're not grounded anymore, the game allows you to jump for a very small amount of time! This was not the case before and made the experience inconsistent between the floor jumps and the wall jumps.
The second one, the jump buffering for the multijump pickables, will greatly improve the experience on some stages in the 5th world - the submarne base. Basically, if you press jump just a few frames before picking up the multijump pickable, it will save your jump input, and you will perform a jump once you pickup the bonus.
This wasn't the case before and it caused some frustrations, now they're gone!
New checkpoint system for the bosses
The final boss of the game was designed with checkpoints in mind, but this wasn't the case for the other bosses, so we thought, why not?
You can now access in the options the checkpoint panel: you can choose to leave it by default (with only the chekpoints enabled for the 6th boss), or you can customize your experience!
We also made some bug fixes and optimizations on the game! We still have some work to do on the optimization part but the game is already pretty stable and smooth and we are quite happy with the result.
Some good news
We wanted to share with you two good news: today is Pierre's birthday, our art director! Happy birthday! For this very special day, his daughter made the very first fanart we ever received for Ghostland Yard, do you recognize Poe ?!
The second good news is that we may have a release date... October 31st 2023, for Halloween!
We will make an official announcement very soon, but this is almost it: the game is going v.1.0 before the end of this year, yeah!
As usual, we are still eager to hear your feedback, do not hesitate to use the "feedback" panel in game or to join us on discord. Thank you very much for your support and feedback!
Talk to you soon!
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29 Jun 2023Developer post
Update 0.9.1.1
Ghostland Yard update 0.9.1.1 is now available! This update brings the final boss of the game, yeah! As usual, do not hesitate to give us feedback and to tell us what you think. We are pleased with the result, but there is always room for improvement. The changes indicated with a
Ghostland Yard update 0.9.1.1 is now available! This update brings the final boss of the game, yeah! As usual, do not hesitate to give us feedback and to tell us what you think. We are pleased with the result, but there is always room for improvement.
The changes indicated with a 💎 were inspired by your feedback, thank you for your support!

Final boss: the boss is now playable
💎2nd Boss: added a small delay at the beginning of phase 2 so players have more time to understand what's going on
💎607: level was reworked base on your feedback, note that your time and replay for this stage was removed
💎Options: you can now access most of the options directly from the pause menu
💎Leaderboard: you can now access the leaderboard directly from the pause menu, meaning that you can start a replay or a race against one of your friends or one of the Top10 in the world without having to go back to the main menu, FINALLY
We are done with the main content of the game, this is a very important milestone for us! In the coming weeks, we are going to release some minor updates bringing QoL improvements, bugfixes and some polish on various things while we are still working on the Apocalypse World.
We are at this very moment at 50% of the Apocalypse world done (60/120 levels). If everything goes right (note that it rarely is the case), we should be able to push the Major Update #3 at the end of July.
Regarding the Apocalypse World update, we still have some plans for few improvements:

A godmode in the options to help you pass the most difficult stages (note that this godmode will probably break some parts of the game!)
Improved character controller: there is no vertical coyote time nor prejump for the multijump pickable at the moment and those were requested, we are going to work on it very soon
Level order modification: some stages inside a world are not are their right place, we are going to balance the order in order to smooth the difficulty curve
Polish: some visual effects and sound effects deserve a bit more love and the overall mixing of the game needs a bit more cooking before the final release
For the Apocalypse Update, there might be a little change of plan though as we met some publishers for Ghostland Yard!
The console version (Nintendo Switch) is still planned but we do not have any ETA to give you yet. There is a timeline where we have to delay the v.1.0 PC release in order to make a multiplaftorm release in 2024, but this will happen only if we find a deal with a publisher. Otherwise, the game will release on PC at the end of the summer, and on Nintendo Switch sometime in the future
We are still eager to hear your feedback, do not hesitate to use the "feedback" panel in game or to join us on discord. We are building this game for you the players, so if you like or dislike anything, let us know and we will see what we can do to improve your experience!
Talk to you soon!
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07 Jun 2023Developer post
Major Update #2: The Space Station
Finally, the second major update for Ghostland Yard is now available! Named "The Space Station", this update brings a brand new world with his new race, a new feature, some bug fixes and more! This update will be split in two parts, the first part wont include the boss or the cut
Finally, the second major update for Ghostland Yard is now available! Named "The Space Station", this update brings a brand new world with his new race, a new feature, some bug fixes and more!
This update will be split in two parts, the first part wont include the boss or the cutscenes which are still work in progress :(
Still inspired by the early access of Against the Storm developped by the amazing Eremite Games, we are going to indicate which changes were inspired by the community with a 💎
New world: the Space Station
Explore a brand new world... in space! You will find twenty new stages and one bonus stage in this last update. The final boss isn't ready yet, but he's coming very soon! Note that the speedrun mode for the 6th world is not available yet, it will be unlocked once we push the update with the last boss!
💎User Experience improvement
You can now access almost every options available directly from a level instead of going back to the main menu!
We also added a button "restart" in the pause panel. We have plans to add the leaderboard panel inside the pause panel, so you will be able to start a replay/race without going back to the level selection menu.
💎Visuals improvement and optimization
We worked on the rendering and optimization of some elements:

Improved performances on the Sumbarine World
Reworked foreground visuals on the Submarine World
Reworked the lighting and rendering on the Submarine Boss (still WIP)
Bug fixes and modifications:

💎Added an audio feedback for the unlock race animation in the level selection menu
Fixed a visual feedback issue on the 5th Boss
Fixed an issue with long nickname not displaying correctly
💎 Small nerf on the Castle Boss: you will now have a small second at the end of the elevator before the boss start chasing you
And some minor tweaks on some stages!
We are getting closer to the v.1.0! We are still working on the Apocalypse World, the 6th and final boss and the cutscenes. We still need more data and feedback before doing the main balancing work, but we will change some level layout and swap some stages to smooth the progression
We will push another update in the coming weeks with the final boss! We are still working on the Apocalypse World, to apologize for the delayed and 2 parts update, here is a teaser of what is coming next... it's going to be a hot summer!
As usual, we are still eager to hear your feedback, do not hesitate to use the "feedback" panel in game or to join us on discord. Remember, we are building this game for you the players, so if you like or dislike anything, let us know and we will see what we can do to improve your experience!
Talk to you soon!
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03 May 2023Developer post
Update 0.8.1.0
Ghostland Yard update 0.8.1.0 is now available! This update brings a huge twist: you can now switch your leaderboard from friend mode to world mode, and have access to the top 10 best times (and of course, replay) of each stage! As usual the changes indicated with a 💎 were inspi
Ghostland Yard update 0.8.1.0 is now available! This update brings a huge twist: you can now switch your leaderboard from friend mode to world mode, and have access to the top 10 best times (and of course, replay) of each stage!
As usual the changes indicated with a 💎 were inspired by your feedback, thank you for your support!

💎Shroom cannons: Nerfed (reduced) the collision box on the cannons to better fit the visuals
💎New feature - world leaderboard:Added a world mode to the leaderboard panel
Added a "default" text to the default colors in the customization panel in the options
💎Changed the default color for the ghost's replay in race mode, it's now red!
💎Performances optimization in the 2nd world - The Castle
Fixed visuals issues on some chains in the 4th world - The Mountains
💎Fixed visuals issues between fishes and shark in the 5th world - The submarine base
We are still eager to hear your feedback, do not hesitate to use the "feedback" panel in game or to join us on discord. We are building this game for you the players, so if you like or dislike anything, let us know and we will see what we can do to improve your experience!
Talk to you soon!
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27 Apr 2023Developer post
Major Update #1: The Submarine Base
The first major update for Ghostland Yard is now available! Named "The Submarine Base", this update brings a brand new world with his new race and boss, a new feature, some bug fixes and more! Still inspired by the early access of Against the Storm developped by the amazing Eremi
The first major update for Ghostland Yard is now available! Named "The Submarine Base", this update brings a brand new world with his new race and boss, a new feature, some bug fixes and more!
Still inspired by the early access of Against the Storm developped by the amazing Eremite Games, we are going to indicate which changes were inspired by the community with a 💎
💎New feature: race mode
You can now race against your replay... or the replay of one of your friend! We added a new panel letting you chose if you want to just watch the replay, or race against it!
Do not hesitate to check the options menu to customize the look of the other "ghost" (it is not a ghost for technical reasons, maybe one day it will become a ghost but that is absolutely not planned for now)
New world: the submarine base
Explore a brand new world under the sea! Twenty new stages, one bonus stage and one boss are now available in this last update, with a brand new game mechanic!
Bug fixes and modifications:

💎Fixed the unlock race animation in the level selection menu which was not being played most of the time (still missing an audio feedback)
💎Fixed some spatialization issue on some sound effects
💎Added a windowed / fullscreen mode in the options
💎Fixed an issue on the 4th boss where the boss couldn't be caught by the slingshot
💎Removed some dangers zone on the 3-06
We are very proud to deliver today this major update, we still have a lot to do but we are getting closer to the v.1.0!
The next steps for us are to balance some levels with the data we gathered from the past weeks, finish the 6th World, polish and debug what we can and add the final cutscenes to the game.
We are still eager to hear your feedback, do not hesitate to use the "feedback" panel in game or to join us on discord. We are building this game for you the players, so if you like or dislike anything, let us know and we will see what we can do to improve your experience!
Talk to you soon!
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06 Apr 2023Developer post
Update 0.7.5.0
Ghostland Yard update 0.7.5.0 is now available! This update brings UX improvement on the replay panel and a windowed / fullscreen mode (resolution picker is coming someday) The changes indicated with a 💎 were inspired by your feedback, thank you for your support! 💎Replay panel:
Ghostland Yard update 0.7.5.0 is now available! This update brings UX improvement on the replay panel and a windowed / fullscreen mode (resolution picker is coming someday)
The changes indicated with a 💎 were inspired by your feedback, thank you for your support!

💎Replay panel: -Added a button to play directly the current level, avoiding some tedious menu navigation
💎Options: -Added a windowed / fullscreen button
And some minor bugfixes
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05 Apr 2023Developer post
Update 0.7.4.3
Ghostland Yard update 0.7.4.3 is now available! This update brings bug fixes, a visual upgrade on the character, a new customization option and more! The changes indicated with a 💎 were inspired by your feedback, thank you for your support! VFX: -Fixed an issue where the VFX on
Ghostland Yard update 0.7.4.3 is now available! This update brings bug fixes, a visual upgrade on the character, a new customization option and more!
The changes indicated with a 💎 were inspired by your feedback, thank you for your support!

VFX: -Fixed an issue where the VFX on the character didn't work after restarting a level
Navigation: -Fixed an issue where you could still navigate in the endpanel just after pressing the next or restart button
💎SFX: -Fixed an issue where you could disable all audio sources except the music while pressing start in a middle of a quick restart
💎Slingshot: -Fixed an issue where if you where grabbed by a slingshot while on a sticky platform, your first jump input wasn't ejecting you from the slingshot -Added a visual help on the slingshot
💎Mode speedrun: -Fixed an issue when restarting a "single world" speedrun changed the mode into "all world", and it wasn't cool
💎Dev medals: -Added the required time in the endpanel if you met the required conditions -Added the required time in the in-game timer (top left of the screen) if you met the required conditions
💎UI: -Added dualshock icons -Added nintendo switch icons
Main character: -Minors adjustments so the visuals better fit the player's collider -Added a rotation speed-based for Poe's hairs (it was really important) -Added a rotation orientation-based for Poe's face (it was even more important)
Options: -Added a color picker for Poe in the options -Minor fixes to harmonize the different options panels
Levels 403-408-410: -Changed some graphical assets to improve the level navigation (guidance)

Known issues: -Some text aren't changed in real time in the options menu, you have to exit then re-enter the menu to update the text language (will be fixed in the next patch)
We wanted to thank you again for every feedback you provide us, it is really, really helping us making the game better every day.
So far, it's been a pleasure discussing with you on the steam forum, discord or even twitch chat gathering comments about the game!
The first major update is on his way and should released at the end of the month, stay tuned!
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31 Mar 2023Developer post
Update 0.7.3.2
Ghostland Yard update 0.7.3.2 is now available! This update brings mostly bug fixes Level 4-20: -Fixed a layer issue on a steel beam asset -Fixed the hidden path disappearance not disabling one of the sprites Level selection menu: -Fixed the world 4 (mountains) race button not sh
Ghostland Yard update 0.7.3.2 is now available! This update brings mostly bug fixes

Level 4-20: -Fixed a layer issue on a steel beam asset -Fixed the hidden path disappearance not disabling one of the sprites
Level selection menu: -Fixed the world 4 (mountains) race button not showing the required souls to unlock the stage
Credits: -Fixed broken english -Fixed name not written correctly (sorry Andréas)
Replay: -Fixed replay system: local replay is now saved only if it's a better time than the previous one
Endpanel: -You can now quickrestart at the end of a level in the endpanel -Changed the default feedback key binding (it's now left click stick)
Fix attempt:

Controller & Keyboard: -You could experience weird jumps if you were playing on a keyboard with a controller plugged-in, this was caused by very small drift on your controller, we added a small deadzone to avoid this issue
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30 Mar 2023Developer post
Update 0.7.3.1
Ghostland Yard update 0.7.3.1 is now available! This update brings bug fixes and few achievements! Still inspired by the early access of Against the Storm developped by the amazing Eremit Games, we are going to indicate which changes were inspired by the community with a 💎 Fixes
Ghostland Yard update 0.7.3.1 is now available! This update brings bug fixes and few achievements!
Still inspired by the early access of Against the Storm developped by the amazing Eremit Games, we are going to indicate which changes were inspired by the community with a 💎
Fixes:

Level 3-12: -Fixed a layer issue on a rope asset
💎Level 4-13: -Fixed a layer issue on the hidden path
💎Speedrun mode: -Fixed an issue with the speedrun options being set back to default after the end of a run -Fixed an issue where the speedrun mode didn't quit properly -Fixed an issue where you could have a small offset between the timer of the first level and the total speedrun timer after restarting a run
💎Input remapping: -Fixed an issue where the directional keys (moving left or right) couldn't be remapped
Achievements:

Added achievement for unlocking one dev medal
Added achievement for defeating boss 1
Added achievement for defeating boss 2
Added achievement for defeating boss 3
Added achievemens for defeating boss 4
If you already met the conditions to unlock the achievements, you'll earn them once you start the game after the update.
Known issues:

Sometime, your best time isn't upload properly to the leaderboard. This is a steam issues -sometimes the upload just fails- and we are going to implement a safeguard, no ETA for this though.
You can't clear a default binding key and leave it empty
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29 Mar 2023Developer post
Update 0.7.2.0
Ghostland Yard update 0.7.2.0 is now available! This update brings bug fixes, balance changes and some quality-of-life improvements, thanks to your feedback! Inspired by the early access of Against the Storm developped by the amazing Eremit Games, we are going to indicate which c
Ghostland Yard update 0.7.2.0 is now available! This update brings bug fixes, balance changes and some quality-of-life improvements, thanks to your feedback!
Inspired by the early access of Against the Storm developped by the amazing Eremit Games, we are going to indicate which changes were inspired by the community with a 💎

💎 Level 1-03: -Fixed a lighting glitch on the foreground
💎 Level 1-13: -The animation on the door was not always triggering, fixed the size of the door trigger
Level 1-22 (Boss): -Changed the ending sor the transition between the boss and the next level feels less abrupt -Fixed size of particle system on falling columns in phase 2 and phase 3
Level 2-22 (Boss): -Added a 2nd type of rock for the final sprint
💎Level 3-17: -Fixed the size of a collider of the first air blower
💎Level 4-13: -Changed the layout right before the hidden path, it's no longer possible to take it in the wrong direction -Changed the gold and dev time to fit the new layout -⚠The old time is invalidated, you will see a 39'59'99 display in game and the steam leaderboard for this level is wiped obtained medal
💎World 4 - The Mountains: -Added a light on each door to improve visibility
💎End panel: - Fixed a bug where if you made the exact same time as a required time, the panel didnt show you the obtained medal - Fixed text display "watch friend replay" - Fixed text display for the bonus level
Friend leaderboard: - Fixed keyboard navigation issue
💎All the panels: -Fixed gamepad icon display issue
💎Dev medals: -You can now see the required time for the dev medals in the level selection panel once you beat the game once or if you used the "unlock all levels" in the options or if you already unlocked the dev medal
💎Pause menu: -Now display the name of the actual level
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29 Mar 2023Developer post
Early access launch
It's live! It's happening: Ghostland Yard is now live in early access on Steam! We are really happy to launch the game in early access, it's been a long journey and this is not over yet! Thank you for all the early buyers, your support is really important for us. We already get t
10 Mar 2023Developer post
Early access
Hi everyone, Today, I’m going to talk about the release of the game and the future of Ghostland Yard . The game was originally scheduled to be released in February 2023, which was later postponed to the end of March 2023. At Obelisk Studio , we have certain values that are very i
Hi everyone,
Today, I’m going to talk about the release of the game and the future of Ghostland Yard. The game was originally scheduled to be released in February 2023, which was later postponed to the end of March 2023.
At Obelisk Studio, we have certain values that are very important to us, one of which is none other than transparency. So let’s be transparent:
We cannot release Ghostland Yard in v.1.0 at the end of March 2023 with the level of quality we want to get.
The hazards of video game production - and life in general - force us to change our plans, and we are sincerely sorry that we have failed to stick to the planned schedule.
We seriously looked at our various options and those were the three major possibilities that emerged:

Maintain release in Q1 2023, but release with pain an unfinished product, with lack of polish and try to correct and fix the flaws afterwards
Postpone the release for several weeks/months, but this implies a big reorganisation of our plans and puts the future of Obelisk Studio in danger
Release the game very soon in early access and assume that the game is not finished, and finish it with the help and support of the community
The early access option turns out to be the best decision for us to make at the moment. It was not planned - we had already studied this opportunity a year ago and decided not to go out in early access - but we have no better option to propose.
We therefore announce that Ghostland Yard will be released in early access on March 28, 2023 on Steam! You will have in this early access version:

World 1 with his race and boss (22 levels in total)
World 2 with his race and boss (22 levels in total)
World 3 with his race and boss (22 levels in total)
World 4 with his race and boss (22 levels in total)
The friend leaderboard
Replay mode
Speedrun mode
The introduction cinematic of the game
Early access on PC will help us deliver a quality 1.0 version - both on PC and consoles - while thanking PC buyers for their help and participation in this early access.
Here is the roadmap for this early access:
Early access involves several things:

A reduced early access price compared to the release price: if you buy a product that is not finished, you do not have to pay full price, it seems to us the least of things. In order to thank buyers for early access, we think we will reduce the game by about 30% compared to its final price (we had envisaged a price between €11.99 and €14.99, if we release in early access, the game would be around €9 to €10).
A roadmap with predefined updates: we have proven through the various updates of the demo that we are able to propose improvements and additional content regularly. I must specify that we will not increase the scope of the project during early access but we will take advantage of it to refine and finish the content originally planned.
Special listening to community feedback: in addition to transparency, we believe in design through iteration. Feedback have always had a central place in the development of Ghostland Yard, and with a early access, we will take as many returns as possible into account to improve the quality of our game. We must not forget that we make this game for you, the players.
So compared to what we still have to produce on the game:

The world 5: is realized in terms of level design as well as visuals, it lacks a little visual and sound polish, it will be implemented 4 weeks after the start of the early access
World Boss 5: playable, need some more work on the visual aspect
The world 6: is realized in terms of level design, need some more level art work, it will be added 8 weeks after the early access start
The Boss of the World 6: is being developed
Cinematics: we are on it, each of them require several days of work
The apocalypse world: work has begun! As these are the classic levels revisited, we do not start from scratch, but several weeks of work are still needed.
Race mode: is about 50% complete
In addition to the tasks we still have to do, early access will allow us to correct and modify certain elements of the game that do not seem qualitative enough (while respecting the initial vision of the game).
For those who are not familiar with early access, know that the game will come out while it is still in development. If you want to play the fully finished version of the game, it is wiser to wait for its final release in a few months before buying it.
We are aware that some of you may be disappointed to see the 1.0 release postponed for several months, know that we do not take this decision lightly.
Know that no matter what the future holds, Ghostland Yard will be released in v.1.0 on PC and Nintendo Switch. We just can’t guarantee the final release date accurately, but we are doing our best.
If you want to play early, you will be able to play the game in early access at the end of the month, March 28 2023 to be precise!
Talk to you soon,
Thibault
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