Developer Blog

Yes, we finally have a Twitter account. Please, follow us for the latest updates on VGC, DFZ, or anything in between.

http://www.twitter.com/vgcompany

The homepage is back. This is our old homepage, not the one we are still making with Joomla. However, so you all have a homepage to go to until the new homepage is up, we decided to put up our old homepage. Our temporary homepage is under http://voodoogamingcompany.org not /home. Enjoy.

As you may have noticed, our homepage is down. We are currently in the process of making a new homepage using the program Joomla. The way Joomla works, we couldn’t have a homepage with the same directory that we are using for Joomla. (Though, that it is like that for most website software)

Hopefully the new homepage will be up shortly. Thank you for understanding.

Martin here. For the past few days, and probably for a long while yet, I have been doing some fieldwork for DFZ. I have been out in the local words for up to four hours a day studying the landscape, climbing huge foothills, etc. It really is quite good inspiration for some of the forests and other landscapes in DFZ.

It is probably old news by now, but as of a few weeks ago, Brian Kononchik was promoted to co-owner of VGC. Congrats, Brian!

I’m sure you have noticed there has been a dramatic change on VGC’s home forums. And indeed, there has been quite a mighty one.

VGC has successfully converted from phpBB to MyBB! (thanks to Evil Eye)

In other words, we have converted our Forum Software.

phpBB was quite an annoying system to get things done around this forum. Installing mods on it took 15 min or more, simple theme edits had to take place within the depths of our servers, and it wasn’t equipped with the largest essentials a forum would need.

MyBB has this. And we can install mods easily in under a minute. Along with the fact that it’s easy to make theme and style edits. And as such, we felt the switch was the best way to help us and help serve you as the users.

Passwords, and posts have all been retained. And additionally, we have been able to easily remove the more unprofessional elements of VGC (using a forum to display affiliates, using redirect forums to get to other sections of the site, etc)

Anything that you could access via the redirect forums that were once here, can now be accessed via the forum navigation bar.

You may experience a few bugs at the start. These aren’t really a problem though.

*You may login only to be seemingly kicked out
-Soultion: This is a bug that comes with being logged into phpBB at the time of the switch. To fix this, simply log-in, and if it seems that you never even logged in, simply click VGC’s banner.

*Unfortunately, Avatars that were too large in size for the default MyBB (which has now been remedied) were removed. Simply re-upload an avatar of your choice.

*Some BBCodes may be messed up since MyBB’s BBCodes and phpBB’s BBCodes aren’t the same. Posts that used phpBB BBCodes in the past will not be remedied, but you can easily amend your signatures to MyBB’s BBCodes.

*When you first login, you’ll likely be displayed as hidden (you’ll know this if it displays a * next to your name on the “Who’s Online” statistic on the index page) You’ll have to remedy this via the User Control Panel.

Remember that secret improvement I was talking about a few weeks ago? Well, that improvement is Unity3D. As of today it is official that Dark Forces: Zander will be make in Unity3D. Unity3D is a powerful development tool, and should speed up development time tenfold. Check it out at http://www.unity3d.com

I can’t say too much now, but I figured as the Dev Blog hasn’t been updated recently, this would make an interesting enough topic. Here’s all I can say at the moment: VGC is planning something that will increase production time on DFZ tenfold, possibly so much that the game can be released significantly sooner than planned. Yay!

Happy New Years everyone! And best of luck as we start out a new decade.

Hello all, I present the first VGC competition. I want each member here (staff included) to bring people to this forum and get them to join. Whoever gets the most people to join our forum wins. The prizes are as follows:

First Place: A forum-appropriate smiley of the user’s choice will be added and they will be told how to the hidden screenshots and renders will be given to the user. Also the user gets full access to the Staff Tavern, a staff-only section.

Second Place: A forum-appropriate smiley of the user’s choice will be added and they will be told how to the hidden screenshots and renders will be given to the user.

Third Place: A smiley of the user’s choice gets added.(must be forum-appropriate)

When you get someone to join post in this topic saying who you got to join. We will PM the user(s) for verification.

Users who were brought here by a fellow forum user can’t do the above. But so the newly recruited users have something to do: The newly joined user who has the highest post count (not gained by spam or pointless posts) on our forum by then end of the competition will be told how to get to the secret renders and screenshots.

The competition starts now and ends February 3rd, 6:00 PM EST

NOTE: IP adresses will be checked and those who fake bringing people over will be disqualified from the competition and will also recieve a warning.