Voidburn

Devlog

• ALPHA 14 HAS HIT THE VOIDBURN ITCH
  June 15, 2026 by ghostkitchen

  Planets, shops, asteroids Planets reimplemented as 3D voxel-based objects (THEY LOOK AMAZING), randomly placed in debug system Safe zones around spawn and planets - no enemy spawns here Safe zones, pl... Continue reading

  
• Official Early Access Launch
  June 13, 2026 by ghostkitchen

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  After 6 months of work, Voidburn has been launched in early access. The itch.io page has been updated accordingly with new marketing materials, and a new trailer has been uploaded to YouTube. Feel fre... Continue reading

  
• Web Alpha 13: Basic tutorial and heavy cleanup pass
  June 13, 2026 by ghostkitchen

  New Game Tutorial and Cleanup Snakes temporarily removed The Worm King behaves a bit better Far fewer text pop-ups Momentum Multiplier tweaks Basic controls graphic and gameplay tutorial on start of n... Continue reading

  
• WEB ALPHA 12: Asteroids and Momentum update
  June 12, 2026 by ghostkitchen

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  WEB ALPHA 12 Asteroids and Momentum update Momentum system prototype added Ability recharges and enemy aggression now depend on your momentum multiplier (MM) As MM increases, abilities become availabl... Continue reading

  
• Enemies and Ships Update
  June 12, 2026 by ghostkitchen

  WEB ALPHA 11 Enemies and Ships Update All enemies given reactive effects (On damage: shake, flash) All enemies given sprite updates All player ships in the process of being redrawn and/or redesigned b... Continue reading

  
• Radio Stations and Menus Update
  June 11, 2026 by ghostkitchen

  - Added 71.0 SMOG FM with Fraud by Smogmonster71 - Added some Dotty tracks to VOID FM - Automatic radio parser, drag and drop ogg or mp3 files with metadata and album art and they will be added to the... Continue reading
• Enemy Update
  June 10, 2026 by ghostkitchen

  June 10th - Enemy update 10 New enemies (attached) with various animations, strategies, and attacks 7 Elite modifiers for all enemies, spawn rate increases as player defeats more enemies All existing... Continue reading
• Web alpha 8
  June 01, 2026 by ghostkitchen

  **Web alpha 8 deployed** All bosses restored and given places to spawn in the overworld - Marked on minimap - Area of discovery is shown on minimap - Most special attacks restored Deployables temporar... Continue reading
• Web alpha 7
  June 01, 2026 by ghostkitchen

  **Web alpha 7 uploaded** Basic gameplay tutorial with per-device button prompts Removed rifts temporarily - fight bosses in the overworld - other test rifts remain broken, will restart these soon 10 n... Continue reading
• Absolutely absurd update (Web alpha testing time!)
  May 30, 2026 by ghostkitchen

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  As we head into the summer months, we here at Ghost Kitchen find our passion for creating renewed. We have spent the past month porting our lovely little space game from pygame into web format! We hea... Continue reading
• Many new features, balancing updates, bug fixes
  April 28, 2026 by ghostkitchen

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  Added: Radial Menus: hold left or right on the d-pad to open a quick selection menu for deployables (left) and abilities (right) New Drops/Blueprints: Rift Jump, Rift Damage, Recharger, Disguise Rift... Continue reading
• Updated HUD, new demo video, and more!
  April 26, 2026 by ghostkitchen

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  Howdy! Now is the perfect time to try Voidburn. The HUD has been updated and upgraded, there have been some major efficiency wins recently (these two are connected) and I have just recorded a 30 minut... Continue reading

  
• Massive HUD upgrade and several performance boosts
  April 26, 2026 by ghostkitchen

  Save//load system reworked Modular HUD stylized and upgraded, color can be changed from ship customization pause menu Bugs, performance fixes... Continue reading

  
• April Update: HUD and bugfixes
  April 25, 2026 by ghostkitchen

  In today's Voidburn alpha we have launched the first draft of a modular HUD, including Sound visualizer/scanner has been decoupled from the minimap, adding a visualizer, a frequency scanner, and now p... Continue reading

  
• Debug system, boss rifts
  March 15, 2026 by ghostkitchen

  Messed up the last build, now it's up to date and works great... Continue reading
• MAJOR UPDATE - Rifts, quest system, tools
  March 14, 2026 by ghostkitchen

  Steam page coming soon!... Continue reading
• MacOS Build and better controller support
  March 07, 2026 by ghostkitchen

  Game should TRY to autodetect controller, monitor size, aspect ratio, and refresh rate on both MacOS and Windows... Continue reading
• MAJOR UPDATE (complete game genre rework)
  March 07, 2026 by ghostkitchen

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  #devlog, #update, #changelog

  Changes: Genre changed from roguelite to action adventure Skill tree, classes, map, zone system completely redone Planets! Asteroids replaced with old arcade carpet shapes Slash dash (time slow specia... Continue reading

  
• Hotfix
  January 18, 2026 by ghostkitchen

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  0117 - fixed vectorscope sound issue... Continue reading