Greetings!
We wanted to let everyone know, that we have changed our company name to Bytewerkz, from Smartly Gophered Games. The reason for this change is simplicity, an easier to remember name, as well as opening the company up to other potential software development opportunities in the future (not strictly limited to game development, as the previous name was). We will begin updating the website, as well as Steam, Discord, Twitter, and everywhere else with our new company name and branding. Rest assured that we have not stopped development on Your Journey of Survival or Project Speed 2, and that development is indeed still full-steam (no Steam pun intended)-ahead!

Greetings!

We have launched an official store on our website! Check it out here: https://smartlygopheredgames.com/store/

Cheers!

Check out Your Journey of Survival here!:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2514900/Your_Journey_of_Survival/

Greetings!

The next update will bring some QoL changes, bugfixes, and performance improvements!

Along with that, we will also be releasing a new map for Project Speed!

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We will be releasing a new game on December 19, 2023 at 6 AM Mountain Time US & Canada, called Your Journey of Survival!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2514900/Your_Journey_of_Survival/

ABOUT THIS NEW GAME
Your Journey of Survival is an open-world game that is a fun combination of the best elements of first person shooter (FPS), survival, tower defense, and roleplaying (RPG) games. It presents building, mining, crafting, combat, looting, and exploration.

Exploration: Explore large and unknown worlds, starting with the wilderness of Njarovik. Scavenge the environment for resources to build new structures and craft new items.

Building: Build structures as massive as you can imagine and upgrade them with resources found in the world. Just be aware that gravity is a thing, so you will need to take into account the structural integrity of your buildings. Unleash your creativity!

Crafting: Craft items that range anywhere from basic items, such as a torch, to weapons and advanced items such as an Assault Rifle, and more! Some items you will need to learn recipes to unlock them and craft them, and maybe also a workbench occasionally here and there.

Combat: Survive in this world against AI such as bandits, wildlife, and more. Or you can survive against the AI and other players too! This is entirely up to you and customizable; this is Your Journey of Survival.

Survival: Survive against the environment, and more. You will also need food and water, and you will also need to survive against the elements too, such as rain, snow, hail, etc.

Destruction: Destroy - destroy as much as you want. Buildings, and most environmental objects can be destroyed. Go up against and raid other player's bases in PVP or go up against AI in PVE.

Character: You will start out naked with nothing but your underwear on. Find resources to make clothes and armor or scavenge them off of other players or AI!

Durability: Durability is a thing in Your Journey of Survival - eventually, tools and weapons, etc. will break and need to be repaired or discarded for a new tool or weapon. Advanced items (such as weapons (such as guns), and modern tools, etc.) can be repaired at a Repair Bench.

Farming/Hunting: Farm a multitude of vegetables and fruits, and/or hunt wild animals that are in the world.

A new website is available for Smartly Gophered Games: https://smartlygopheredgames.com/

Additionally, we now have a forum at: https://forum.smartlygopheredgames.com/

Greetings!

This update introduces lots of performance improvements, as well as an update to the game engine!

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We've improved performance on the experimental RWG map, as well as all the other maps. We've also improved performance with headlights and taillights as well.

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We've also update the trees on Njarovik. The trees now look better, and also perform better.





With this update, we've also improved and polished the lighting.

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We have some important news for the players of the Project Speed game franchise.
We have decided to change the games from Free to Play, to Paid. While we would have liked to keep the games free to play, we ultimately decided that it would be better in the long run to change them to paid to help fund their development better, since funding of development for the games has been at an all-time low. With this change, we hope to be able to work on the games in a higher capacity than we have been able to and to also be able to release more updates more frequently.
It is important to note that those who received the game for free while it was Free to Play, will still have the game for free.
Along with this change, we have decided to lower the price of the Supporter Upgrade DLC. It is now $3.99 USD instead of $4.99 USD.


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That is all for this update. We hope you enjoy the new update. For a full list of bugfixes, features, and improvements, please see the changelog below.

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Added:

• New trees to Njarovik
  

• Global illumination at night becoming erratic when headlights are turned on
  

• Performance across all maps
  
• Lighting
  
• Game engine updated from Unreal Engine 5.1.1 to Unreal Engine 5.2.1
  

Greetings!

This update is adding some requested features, as well as some features that are an absolute necessity.

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To start off, you can now change your gearbox between Automatic and Manual.
You can press Left Ctrl, to go down a gear, and Left Shift to go up a gear. In automatic, you only need to down-shift for reverse gear.







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This update has also added a new, experimental, Random World Generation setting! You can now select a randomly generated world (so far, a randomly generated town world), by selecting the "Open RandomWorldGen" button in the Singleplayer menu. This option does work on Dedicated Servers, however it is experimental so there may be bugs.





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A new Server Administration Panel has been added for server owners and administrators! This works with both Dedicated Servers, and Player Hosted Sessions! Please refer to the Dedicated Server Guide for more information on how to make yourself and other players an admin on your server/session.











(PVP option coming for a future special gamemode ;D)

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Additionally, a new in-game hint has been added, which shows that you can now press X to show the controls and keybinds in-game. This hint is shown at the top left of your screen.

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The font on most of the UI has been redone and has a nicer look now.

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Due to lots of requests, brakelights have now been added. As well, the default lights are now lowbeam headlights. You can now toggle the highbeam headlights by pressing K. To flash them, just like you would in-real life, you can press and hold J - releasing the J key will then turn them off. A cabin light for your vehicle has also been added, which can be toggled by pressing ALT+L.

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A bunch of new achievements and findables, and POIs have been added.



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That is all for this update. We hope you enjoy the new update. For a full list of bugfixes, features, and improvements, please see the changelog below.

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Added:

• Gearbox selection
  
• Random World Generation (experimental)
  
• Randomly Generated Town Wlrod (experimental)
  
• Server Admin Menu
  
• Achievement: The Derby
  
• Achievement: Gold Rush
  
• Achievement: The Moose Monument
  
• Achievement: Toy car
  
• Achievement: Junk
  
• Achievement: It's so... random!
  
• Achievement: A new view
  
• Achievement: Automation!
  
• Achievement: Stick shift
  
• 3 Hidden Achievements (& findables/POIs)
  
• Ability to switch between MPH & KM/h
  
• DLCs menu
  
• Lowbeam headlights, highbeam headlights
  
• In-cabin light
  
• Brakelights
  
• In-game hint (X to show controls/keybinds in-game)
  
• Ability to show controls/keybinds in-game by pressing X
  
• Server connection messages (success, failure, timeout, etc)
  
• Spawn effect
  
• First-person view
  

• Vehicle colors showing grey checkerboard texture
  
• Jittering in multiplayer
  
• VehiclePlayerController accessing None when trying to read property error on Dedicated Servers
  
• Australian Outback terrain simply not existing
  
• Obnoxiously loud and duplicating engine sound (WIP)
  
• Floating windmill on Njarovik
  

• Excessive glare and bloom when headlights/brakelights are active
  
• Engine sounds (WIP)
  
• Rain puddles no longer flood the entire map in 80 feet of water
  
• Snow takes longer to melt, rain takes longer to evaporate
  
• Vehicle physics are affected better by weather
  

• Epic graphics settings from Advanced Video settings menu (these can still be enabled manually in the GameUserSettings.ini file, however they are bugged and may not work 100% of the time. They will be reintroduced to the game officially once DirectX12 is default for the game, and as well as some graphical changes are made)
  

• Fixed Australian Outback map crashing
  
• Added new hidden achievement & easter egg (highly recommended to find this one with other players in Multiplayer!)
  

• Fixed invisible house at spawn on Njarovik
  
• Added VAC check when trying to access Multiplayer portion of the game
  
• Fixed one of the hidden findables not working properly in Multiplayer
  
• Fixed performance issue with lighting
  
• Fixed collisions with small rocks on Njarovik
  

Greetings all!
This update is filled with new content, bug fixes, and improvements!

First things first, as many have been waiting for, Njarovik has been fixed and you no longer need to access a beta branch to access it.



Along with that, Njarovik has had some performance improvements done to the map itself, and a new POI has been added (the Construction Site). Starting with this update, all maps with POIs will get achievements specific to the POI.



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We have added Linux Support to the game (and Dedicated Server, if you wish to host a server on a Linux machine)! You can now play the game (or host a Dedicated Server) on Linux, just like you can on Windows. Below are the System Requirements to run the Linux version of the game:

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MINIMUM:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (or equivalant)
Processor: Intel Core i3, 3 GHz or higher (or AMD equivalent)
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 (or AMD equivalent)
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 12 GB available space
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RECOMMENDED:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (or equivalant)
Processor: Intel Core i5, 3 GHz or higher (or AMD equivalent)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB (or AMD equivalent)
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 15 GB available space
Sound Card: On-board[/expand]

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A new Sci-Fi themed drone has been added to the game. By default, this drone is always accessible, and able to be played with on the new Sci-Fi maps (part of the Supporter Upgrade DLC). You can however, play with this drone on the base-game maps using Sci-Fi Mode.



You can either join a server running Sci-Fi Mode (learn how to enable this mode in the Dedicated Server guide, here: Official Dedicated Server Guide), or you can open a single player game and toggle the Sci-Fi Mode checkbox before you enter a map. Currently, due to the way that Player-Hosted sessions are programmed into the game, you cannot play with Sci-Fi Mode in a Player-Hosted session. At a later date we plan to redo Player-Hosted sessions from the ground up, in a better and more efficient way. This new Sci-Fi Mode and Sci-Fi themed drone are free, and not part of the new DLC.

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A new Supporter Upgrade DLC is being released as part of this update. If you like Project Speed 2 and want to help support and fund development of the game, as well as get some neat goodies, then head over to the store page and purchase the Supporter Upgrade! Here is a list of what you get with the DLC:

• Your name in multiplayer will be gold
  
• A special badge in the main menu to show your support
  
• Two Sci-fi themed maps to drive around on with a Sci-fi Drone*
  
• Artifacts hidden around both maps to find
  
• Quests on both maps
  
  Plus:
  
• Our thanks and gratitude!
  
  *The Sci-Fi Drone is not part of the DLC and is free to all players.
  By purchasing the Supporter Upgrade DLC you are entitled to receive all future updates to it free of charge!
  

• Linux Support (for both Game and Dedicated Server)
  
• FMOD Audio
  
• Sci-Fi Drone
  
• Sci-Fi Mode (to enable Sci-Fi Drone and Sci-Fi Features within base-game maps)
  
• Construction Site POI to Njarovik
  
• Abandoned Polar Facility Map (Requires Supporter Upgrade DLC)
  
• Arctic Research Lab Map (Requires Supporter Upgrade DLC)
  
• "Welcome to the Sci-fi Research Station" Achievement (Requires Supporter Upgrade DLC)
  
• "Welcome to Abandoned Arctic Lab" Achievement (Requires Supporter Upgrade DLC)
  
• "You found the crashed large vessel carrier drone" Achievement (Requires Supporter Upgrade DLC)
  
• "You visited the Njarovik Campground" Achievement
  
• "You visited the Construction Site" Achievement
  
• Vehicle Color: Beige
  
• Photography Mode (Home button for Photo Mode, End button for in-game Photo Gallery)
  
• Character model to truck vehicle to make the game feel more 'alive'
  

• Fixed EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION upon driving over grass foliage mesh on Australian Outback map
  
• Njarovik crash and EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION upon entering world for more than 15 seconds
  
• Abnormally high memory usage when playing on Bonneville Salt Flats map on a Dedicated Server
  
• Graphical glitch (flashing) with AMD graphics cards
  

• Performance across the game
  
• Performance on Njarovik map
  
• Physics improvements
  
• Collision improvements
  

• Fixed Steam Inventory Item not being granted to players who have played the original Project Speed game
  
• Fixed "You found the crashed large vessel carrier drone" achievement (requires Supporter Upgrade DLC) not being granted to players
  
• Fixed and modified some multiplayer code, Join via IP is now enabled in Multiplayer menu
  

• Fixed inability to use any controls or access any menus on Supporter Upgrade DLC maps
  
• Fixed Steam Player Authentication with Multiplayer
  

• Added another way to get the "You found the crashed large vessel carrier drone" achievement (requires Supporter Upgrade DLC) by colliding with the crashed large vessel carrier drone since the bounding box around the area seems to work sometimes, but not others
  
• Fixed Dedicated Server map name showing blank, no map name in field
  

Hello everyone!

An official server has been opened for the game. You can find it in the server list, with the name "Official Server #1".

An update for Project Speed 2 is coming soon, with new features and lots of bug fixes!

Added:

• Bonneville SF (Salt Flats) Map
  
• Successfully join a Dedicated Server (Multiplayer) Achievement
  
• Let there be light! Achievement
  
• Oops... Achievement
  
• First Snow Achievement
  
• Welcome to Bonneville (Utah) Salt Flats Achievement
  
• 1 hidden Achievement (Find a location and item on one of the maps to unlock it!)
  

• Fixed random crashing on Turtle Coast map
  
• Improved and reworked Multiplayer P2P join window (now known as Steam Sessions)
  
• Improved vehicle handling
  
• Fixed random fatal error when hitting a static object
  

• Njarovik now can only be accessed by being in the correct beta branch due to a bug, which we cannot seem to figure out what is causing the bug. Presumably, the bug is a game engine (Unreal Engine Physics) bug, and not a game bug. If you want to access Njarovik, we have made available a beta branch called "njarovikaccess". The game content is the same between the two branches (the default branch, and the beta branch), so you won't download any different game content.
  

• Fixed njarovikaccess beta branch not working to unlock Njarovik.
  

Added:

• Windmill objects to Njarovik
  

• Improved multiplayer performance and stability
  
• Fixed unobtainable inventory item for those who have played the original Project Speed game