We are happy to announce that GEORGIE-YOLKIE is now avaliable on SteamOS and Linux. Please consult the system requirements / Steam OS support for supported Linux operating systems to run GEORGIE-YOLKIE properly. The game is provided as a native binary that will run on both x86/x64 versions of Linux / SteamOS.

[ 2025-01-28 23:49:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

We are pleased to announce the release of our first new patch for GEORGE-YOLKIE for 2025! This patch adds an important quality of life feature, the silhouette of Georgie when he is obscured by level objects and geometry. This is especially useful as a platformer, the game requires precision platforming at times, and depending on the camera view, objects could obscure the player making it difficult to navigate. With this enhancement, the game is much easier to play, camera wise! [previewyoutube=UwKIU_Ekl8Y;full][/previewyoutube] Additionally, here are some other improvements that have been made to the game;

• Added Day / Night cycle to Sharkie's Cove.
• Updated sand around shoreline in Sharkie's Cove.
• Textures on Sharkie's Ship are no longer flat and include bump mapping.
• Increased mip map (texture) detail from far distances.
• Improved rendering quality of models.
• Fixed Mermaid bust on front of Sharkie's Ship not moving with the ship, causing it to 'float' midair.

[ 2025-01-11 14:42:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

We've released an important revision to the 1.0.5 Patch. This patch includes fixes for a potential crash that could occur with game logic, along with perfecting collisions and performance.

• Fixed null reference exception that could occur in Monty's Jungle.
• Fixed inaccurate collisions and bounding boxes for some platforming elements
• Fixed Yolkie positioning when using Yolkie Homing in Monty's Jungle
• Further reduced memory footprint for collision and occlusion datas

[ 2024-12-28 20:27:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

We are happy to announce the final patch for 2024 for GEORGIE-YOLKIE! This patch is a huge one and adds a brand new move, new areas, graphics, bug fixes and enhancements! The team at Spacefarer wish you a very happy holiday and new year, and that's a wrap for us until next year!

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Full Changelog

Content Update!

• Added brand new move! Yolkie Homing- Yolkie when released from the bag will scout the area around Georgie and pick up coins, break stuff and hit enemies from afar! (Press G on keyboard or Y button on controller)
• Added the new area in Bobbly's Bog - Pea Soup Plaza, a whole new area with platforming required to get the third golden fishy, instead of it being easily obtained from a simple platform making the level otherwise shorter than it needed to be.
• Added new Rainbow platform area to Sweety's Spaces and moved Fishy to the end of it's road, with more coins and Spacefaring cat UFOS as hazards and a cute piggie character!
• Added underwater wave and ripple effects underwater in Sharkie's Cove
• Added caustics on ocean floors
• Added option to change dialogue text speed to Slow, Normal or Fast. (Switch has been changed to Slow)
• Added Lanky's Lighthouse to Sharkie's Cove.
• New and improved textures with improved UV mapping that was previously stretched on surfaces in Bobbly's Bog, making it much more lush now!
• Grass and other foliage will now bend and sway when Georgie moves through it.
• When collecting red or blue coinz, a number will popup indicating their value in a fun way!

Polish

• Fixed swamp ground effect textures and distortions which was not showing correctly before.
• Improved graphical effects in Sweety's Spaces
• Added smoke in Volcano in Sweety's Spaces.
• Updated Sweety's Spaces preview in World Select.
• The start button on the Title Screen is now animated.
• Added scaling animations to buttons on World Select, File Select and Main Menu and Pause Screens to make them more cute and more obvious of what is selected
• Fixed offset of the Tapes button on the World Select screen.
• Correct wording for 'Fishys' on World Select to 'Fishies'.
• Changed 'Journey' to 'Adventure' on File Select.
• Fixed minor UI offset issues.
• Added reflections to coins and fishy sprites on menus and HUD.
• Fixed fur not appearing on Georgie on the intro where he is laying in bed and Furry Mode is enabled.
• Added Fluff to Yolkie when Furry Mode is enabled (Fluffy Chick, Birds don't have fur!)
• Added fur to Zeusy when Furry Mode is enabled.
• Added fur to Scout when Furry Mode is enabled.
• Added fur to Rattie when Furry Mode is enabled.
• Fixed blurry icon for Graphic Settings button on the menu.
• Restored Crystal ball on Rattie Intro scene which was missing before and not shown until entering his room later.
• Doubled the texture resolutions available on higher settings.
• Adjusted the coin entry requirement in Monty's Jungle from 1500 coins to 4000 due to Pea Soup Plaza being added. Pea Soup Plaza requires 2000, encouraging exploration of the all the worlds before it.
• Fishies are no longer displayed for Rattie's Keep on the UI and has been replaced with Rattie's face as Fishies are not collectable in that world.
• Fixed language mistakes in Crocky's Cauldron.
• Background billboard trees are now textured instead of being single shaded.
• Animated vines and flowers in Teeny-Weeny-Woods instead of being static.
• Rattie's Keep coin requirement has been changed from 8000 to 10,000 encouraging exploration of most areas of the game.
• Golden Fishies are now seen on the map to help making locating them easier than before.
• Added bust of Rattie above door in Rattie's Lair.
• Added textures to rocks above water in Sharkie's Cove as it was missing before.
• Changed sound effect when picking up the Ice Key to indicate how special it is.
• Re-added fog to Sharkie's Cove.
• Re-added fog tp Teeny-Weeny's Woods.
• Added edges to areas of Isle 'O'Rats as before it was made to appear as if land was hovering above the water.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Georgie's fur colouring being too bright in Rattie's Lair when Furry Mode is enabled.
• Fixed Isle 'O' Rats mesh seams and object alignment.
• Fixed collision for attacking the Goblins (green big guys) which proved to be too difficult at times.
• Fixed invisible wall behind Skull Rock in Sharkie's Cove.
• Fixed blurry maps when viewing from the Pause Menu, and are no longer pixelated.
• Fixed Georgie slightly hovering above ground (Unity 6 physics clamping bug)
• Fixed Settings and Controller buttons not being accessible with gamepad and not returning to File Selection when closing.
• Fixed Map not displaying properly on certain Worlds when viewing full-screen.
• Fixed overflow for coin counter being out of screen when obtaining over 10,000 coins.
• Fixed grass in Isle 'O' Rats not animating or bending with Georgie's movement.
• Fixed Boggly's Swamp soup effects not rendering properly.
• Fixed Timer overflow bug.
• Fixed internal clock not adding collectable values correctly. (This would often happen to Blue Coinz the most).
• Fixed default settings / applied settings being lost when starting the game depending on save file data.
• Fixed potential softlock on intro cutscene that could occur with internal clock.
• Fixed bug with dialog not appearing when collecting Golden Heartie and Ice Key.
• Fixed bug with dialog not appearing when rescuing Blue Bobbly.
• Fixed bug with water on Isle 'O' Rats being able to fall through it in a glitchy way.
• Fixed rendering of water on Isle 'O' Rats.
• Wrapped Steam DRM for executable to prevent launch issues when the game is run externally from Steam.

Performance

• Improved performance in Teeny-Weeny's Woods
• Reduced shader variant count for vegetation, reducing overall memory usage
• Reduced shader precision where not necessary to reduce GPU load.
• Enabled Rattie's Lair Billboarding for Home Turf as soon as it is occluded by fog. (All Platforms, instead of just Switch)
• Optimized game data archive for faster loading between areas.
• Improved culling of off-screen areas to increase rendering performance.
• Improved rendering of off-screen render to texture targets.
• Improved performance in Gingy's Glacier.
• Improved performance in Isle 'O' Rats.
• Improved performance in Bobbly's Bog.
• Improved performance in Sharkie's Cove.

[ 2024-12-23 21:05:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Celebrate the Festive season with us! & wish you the very best! You can also grab a copy for your stocking for Nintendo Switch and XBOX, and so much more good feline fun is coming in the new year, so stay tuned!

-Raycasting and Furry Mode enabled running at 4K!

This patch fixes a lot of things and adds new content and polishes up the game even more!

Content Update

• Added Skull Rock Island to Sharkie's Cove, and Zeusy makes his appearance here! This improves continuity with the world designs across the game.
• Restored Motion Blur to Georgie's camera which was disabled in the original releases due to a engine bug. This has now been addressed.

Polishing Up and bug fixes!

• Added glow lighting effect to Fishies, illuminating the area around them.
• Added scene decoration and finishings to Sharkie's Cove
• Fixed baked lighting in Sweety's Spaces.
• Fixed lighting on Burrow and his molehills.
• Improved lighting and specular highlights in Gingy's Glacier.
• Reduced memory usage when loading new areas (All)
• Reduced runtime memory footprint by removing redundant code and package dependencies (All)
• Reduced depth of field blur effect when underwater, as it made navigation slightly difficult before. (All)
• Increased shader performance and improved texture streaming (All)
• Fixed black shader glitched box appearing on water reflections from the sun in Home Turf. (Nintendo Switch)
• Fixed incorrect coloring of houses in home Turf. (All)
• Fixed potential random crash that could occur when leaving worlds and re-entering quickly. (Nintendo Switch, XBOX)
• Improved performance on World Select / File Select screens due to texture depth buffer issues. (All)
• Significantly improved framerates throughout (Nintendo Switch, Mitigation for All)
• Improved object and enemy collisions (All)
• Improved Water rendering performance (Nintendo Switch)
• Fixed glitched eye textures that could appear quickly when first opening the Pause Menu. (Nintendo Switch)
• Fixed seam between sand and ocean under huts in Sharkie's Cove.
• Improved water in Glitter Cave
• Significantly improved texture resolutions and scaling in Magey's Mountain
• Fixed bounding box for climbable ship masts on Ghost Ship, making the collision much more accurate.
• Fixed bug with timer in world not compiling overall time spent in that world unless a new time session surpassed it, giving highly inaccurate results.
• Fixed bug with close button on Settings menu in-game being out of screen randomly.
• Increased swimming speed.
• Fixed minor performance issue related to non-static objects in Sharkie's Cove.
• Fixed null reference checks in Sharkie's Cove.
• Fixed overload of debug checks in Sharkie's Cove.
• Fixed glitch with occlusion in Sharkie's Cove showing rocks / cliffs improperly.
• Fixed bug with the sharky crewmate eventually becoming off-centered from the crow's nest due to an animation oversight.
• Added motion blur and minor distortion when swimming underwater
• Fixed bug with interaction with Sharkie's first mate not always triggering due to bounding box error
• Fixed lighting of Whaley's Tongue.
• Fixed Sweety's Spaces Mini-map being too zoomed out.
• Fixed unobtainable blue coins in Sweety's Spaces.
• Improved coloring and lighting of wood textures of Rattie's Lair.
• Enabled GPU instance for Rattie's Lair, improving performance.
• Fixed delay restarting Sharkie's Cove music when ending the loop.
• Added Ghosties to the Ghost Ship in Sharkie's Cove.
• Fixed offsetfloating tree in sharkies cove by entrance
• Bushes in Sharkie's Cove are now animated.

Phew! That's a big ol' list, we know, well done if you read it all, hard work isn't it? Not as hard as making all these changes mind you. As always thanks for all your feedback players, and we really appreciate your support into making Georgie-Yolkie the purrrfect experience for you all! These patches are expected to be released for Nintendo Switch and XBOX by the end of the year. This is also the version that PlayStation 5 players will get on day one of release!

[ 2024-12-03 21:16:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wow! What a giant patch! This patch polishes off the game and adds new content, graphics, improvements and bug fixes, and stuff that didn't make it into the initial release of the game in time for the holidays, but its all now here in it's glory!

New Graphic Features

• Added Furry Mode - Enables fur on the characters that have it. It Requires a high end GPU for best performance.
• Added Raytracing Support - Will run on most modern GPUS but requires 4K for best visual fidelity. We recommend you use a high performance GPU to make it look it's best. Adds some really awesome shadow effects and the detail change is outstanding!
• Added HDR Display Output - the game will now display colours correctly on HDR Supported displays.

New Content

• The Isle 'O' Rats is now fully explorable and the barrier has been removed, allowing entry to the rest of the areas there, which include Armo's Arcade, the Mansion of the Mad March Hares (which is now where the Fishy that was once located above a bee hive on the island has now been moved to). Note that you'll need a game completion star on your save before you can enter those new (optional areas)
• The world, Crocky's Cauldron, has been added to the game. Being the last level now before Rattie's Keep, the entry requirement for the Rattie Boss Battle has been changed from 33 Fishies to 36, with Crocky's Cauldron requiring the former. The final coin count requirement for Rattie's Tower has also been inflated from 5000 to 8000. Shortcut portals to Crocky's Cauldron have been added to the Home Turf, Isle 'O 'Rats and Boris' Badlands.
• The Instruction Manual is now included in the installation, as it was not included before. It can be accessed from the Technical Support Launch option in Steam or from the game's store page.

We've squashed these bugs!

• Fixed minor lighting issues on certain objects in Home Turfs.
• Fixed minor clipping issues with coins on the ground in Home Turfs.
• Fixed Georgie's eyes from glowing when inside Rattie's Lair Hub.
• Fixed bloom bugs on certain areas.
• Fixed bug with certain objects not rendering correctly.
• Fixed lighting that was too dark in Gingy's Glacier.
• Removed invisible collision in Magey's Mountain that was left over from development.
• Fixed a bug in Sharkie's Cove ocean that would trigger underwater transitions if a enemy or object falls in the water.
• Fixed missing collisions on trees on starting point in Sharkie's Cove.
• Fixed missing collisions on rocks around the totem poles in Sharkie's Cove.
• Fixed aliasing caused by MSAA fallback being downgraded. Default behaviour is now 'upgrade.'
• Fixed coin next to tree that would respawn in Home Turfs when it's already picked up which was left over from development.
• Fixed bugged lighting on Isle 'O' Rats.
• Fixed glitched bee hives obstructing camera on Isle 'O' Rats.
• Fixed popup indicator not appearing on portal back to the Home Turfs in Isle 'O' Rats.
• Fixed collectables in Gingy's Glacier slightly clipping into surfaces.
• Fixed lighting on Christmas Tree from being too dark in Gingy's Glacier.
• Fixed the Gold Bobbly not displaying on the Pause UI when in the Isle 'O' Rats World.
• Fixed missing tree trunks on certain GPUS in Magey's Mountain.
• Fixed deletion bug with certain new game data save creation.
• Fixed bug which would reset collected coins on certain worlds (count only, not total saved) in the current world when losing a life or getting game over.
• Fixed giant rock which was slighty offset from ground next to the dinosaur skeleton in Boris' Badlands.
• Fixed the speech prompt on Sunny in Magey's Mountain from being very off-set from his model.
• Fixed a game-breaking bug that would reset the amount of coins collected back to 0 when leaving the world and re-entering, requiring the player to surpass the coins collected to a higher new amount in order for them to be saved. They will now be restored when re-entering the level, and new coins collected will add to the combined existing score. This had the potential to cause a softlock as Rattie's tower and other areas require coins to enter.
• Fixed random null reference exceptions in Sharkie's Cove.
• Fixed starting area in Rattie's Keep being too dark.
• Fixed a softlock that could happen on the party scene.

Improvements and Polish

• Video settings can now be adjusted on the Pause menu while in-game and also from the File Selection screen, which was restricted to the World Select Screen before.
• Added birds to the sky on the Spacefarer Intro
• Added Felina skybox in Rattie's Lair.
• Rattie's Tapestry Banners now use proper cloth physics and animate instead of being static.
• Ropes hanging from Rattie's Lair Balcony now use physics properly instead of being static.
• Added flame foes to Boris' Badlands.
• Added flame foes outside Croccy's Cauldron portal in Home Turf.
• Added flame foes outside Croccy's Cauldron portal in Isle 'O' Rats.
• Added coins showing a pathway to the Ice Mountain in Felina Home Turfs.
• Major improvement to performance for areas with many collectables on screen by using Dynamic Batching.
• Fixed the heart icon not beating as it was not working properly before, resulting in it being static.

Thank you for all the early feedback guys, and we hope you continue to enjoy the improvements that we are making to Georgie-Yolkie! Unless anyone reports any issues this will be our last patch before the holidays, and new year, so we wish you all a good one!

[ 2024-11-26 01:21:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Georgie Yolkie has now been released on Nintendo Switch!

Nintendo eShop (USA) Nintendo eShop (Europe) Japan release coming 28th Nov. Georgie-Yolkie is an all-new purrfect open-world platformer and collectathon! With huge, beautiful world and meet an unforgettable cast of silly characters. The lovable duo, Georgie and Yolkie star in this purrfect return to the collectathon platforming genre! The Worlds of Felina have been overrun by King Ratties minions and have stolen all the valuable golden fishies. Now atop his giant keep, Georgie and Yolkie must work together with quirky characters along the way to unlock the vast worlds and bring peace back to the Kingdom. With a giant open world and no less than ten other worlds full of bright colorful and weird characters, jump, swim, bounce and defy gravity as the worlds of Felina unravel around you, with a fun musical score and excellent replay value. Key Features Jump, run, spin, go upside down, glide, swim and more as you progress through the massive and detailed worlds and combat challenging quirky bosses and meet with silly characters in a humorous story, a love letter to classic platformers of the ninetees! Ten worlds with different challenges and collect those shiny objects to progress through the worlds of Felina. A purrfect catchy soundtrack and natural effects that bring the game to life and make it an unforgettable adventure And a load more- play challenging mini-games and mix-it-up after beating the game! Nintendo Switch will also receive the upcoming 1.02 Patch that will be released here on Steam first. The box release will either be coming December or Jan 2025!

[ 2024-11-25 18:56:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Now on XBOX ONE / Series X|S

As the next milestone in our release journey, you can now download and play Georgie-Yolkie on XBOX consoles and Windows PCs. Click here to visit XBOX Store. As time progresses, it will also be avaliable on XBOX Game Pass and discoverable from the main Store Page. Our next release is Nintendo Switch on the 25th Nov, followed by PlayStation 5. We hope you enjoy, and we continue to work on the first major patch for the game. Patches for the game will be released bi-weekly on Tuesdays.

[ 2024-11-12 12:29:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

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[ 2024-11-08 07:23:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

Georgie-Yolkie is compatible with Steam Deck

Read the following below for the results of our testing of the game following the guidelines and structure provided to us by Valve. You can read the guidelines provided here.

Input

• Controller support: The game supports Steam Deck's physical controls. Players will not need to adjust any settings for them to work.
• Controller glyphs: When using the Steam Deck, XBOX / Deck glyphs are displayed, which co-ordinate with the exact controls as provided by Steam Deck.

Display

• Resolution support: The game supports the Steam Deck's native resolution of 1280x720. It will run by default at 1920x1080 with upscaling.
• Default configuration: The game ships with High configuration for quality setting by default, in which the Steam Deck can run perfectly at 30fps and above.
• Text legibility: interface text can be easily readable at a distance of 12 inches/30 cm from the screen.

Seamlessness

• No device compatibility warnings: The game does not present the user with information that the Deck software (ie., specific Linux distribution) or hardware (ie., GPU) is unsupported.
• Launcher: The game does not include a launcher and therefore does not require mouse or keyboard input or breaking the seamless experience from launching the game via Steam.

Proton Requirements

• The game is provided as a Windows application that is fully supported through Proton as most Unity games are.

Notice: This is not Valve's official compatibility result for Georgie-Yolkie, but we are confident in our results when running the checks with the guidelines provided. The game in the future will be tested by Valve and these results will be updated accordingly.

[ 2024-11-06 10:28:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! We'd like to thank you all for your continued support on the release of GEORGIE-YOLKIE since it went GOLD today! Thanks to you all, Spacefarer has come full circle at releasing our best title yet, and what better to feature our beloved Georgie that started it all. The cat-bird duo are also coming to Nintendo Switch (which went gold and approved weeks ago by Nintendo) and other consoles very soon! How purrfect! What's next? Early tester feedback has been amazing, thank you for taking the time to get in touch and sharing both positive and constructive feedback that will allow us to add significant improvements to the game and even add in some of the most requested features. So, coming soon in an update...

• Mini-games in the world levels that are accessible also from Armo's Arcade (A cute armadillo character that didn't make it into the game in time)
• The Isle 'O' Rats will be fully explorable, and a preview teaser into what's coming next for Georgie-Yolkie...
• Design polish & gameplay tweaks.

We'll be sharing a more detailed breakdown of the planned game update in the coming weeks as we make progress. Until then, we'll be hanging out in our Discord and Community Hub to reach out to everyone to give those handy tips.

[ 2024-11-06 10:08:42 CET ] [ Original post ]