Hi rori!
although I have an idea for a new game but I don't have enough knowledge to programme that.
as far as the concern of reserection of DMNB
I don't think that the src of this game is available
even it is
then it is coded in pure basic.
the most difficult and low level programming language.
Thanks
Ishan

Remember, dmnb was based on deadspace. So if someone makes a similar game, I don't see how that is disrespectful, it'd only be disrespectful if you give your game the same name and make an exact replica.

OK, yes. This post does mean i'm back in game development, i'm still maintaining my distance from the community. However, I need to make clear 2 things. First off, I did not just simpply up and end fortune's frontier with out telling anyone and with out asking. When I ended fortune's frontier, I kept the sources in deleted archives, posted a note to my beta testing team, asking them weather they, as beta testers, wanted me to find  someone else to takeover the project. I was willing to stick it out long enough to find someone else so that the testers could continue testing and the project could continue, with out my intervention, but the general response from the testing team was that i'd not be able to find anyone to replace me in developing the game, and that from hents forth the hole project had been a waist of time. Now, why did I not then go on here and ask for possible people to takeover the project? Because I don't believe just anyone should do it. If I leave a project I want to leave it in good hands if I can, because I cair enough to make sure you guys get what I said the game had. Isn't that what you would want? Pluss, from the response of my testing team, I gathered they wern't intrested in continuing with the testing of the game if I was not involved. Which brings me to the second problem of why I let it go in the firstplace. I won't go into the personal problems seeing as I whent into them in the project alpha topic, and you all have already pointed fingers at me calling me another mtg or the second mason. So to save you the trouble, I will just state this, loud and clear, and hope that stops coming up. Lets explain this using an analagy. Picture dmnb as a drug, right? Now picture it going down from over indulgance, as a drug overdose. If I had not stopt, put the coding keys down and thrown away ff, and got though's personal problems out of the way? Answer me this. What do you think would have happened again to ff, just as it did to dmnb. If your answer was another drug overdose/it would have gone down, you are 100 percent correct. Now, yes. I will be returning to game development, and I am already looking at a new project, i'm not giving any details however. Its not coming now, and it possibly won't be for a while since I still have some problems to overcome in my personal life. With that in mined, I have no problem if someone decides to make their own version of dmnb the way it used to be. As a matter of fact i'd be intrested in acquiring the sounds for both dmnb v1 and v2 again as I no longer have them thanks to a hard drive crash. With this in mined, I also have 1 thing to ask. I do require personal space in order to get my development work. As I said in the project alpha topic, if you have a problem with what i'm doing, come out and state it, but please, don't make a big ishue out of it. I'll get to it when I can. The same thing applys towards good compliments. I don't mined the every now and again good work or nice work posts, but please. Don't over do it. 1 post does the trick, and if I say enough, please, let it be enough, don't keep on pestering me about it. Now that i've got that out of the way, I will say this. While I know my previous work has been free, it is high time I start charging for my new work if it gets released.

And here's the link to dmnb v2 sound effects:
https://www.dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s … sounds.rar

My idea would be more soly online, with a storyline driven type missions system a bit like wing commander mush if anyone ever played that, mixt with some proper not the cheap stuff done in ff but proper 3d rotation where you'd turn towards an object, which i've got a handle on now. Mix that with some of the old moo vast space's systems of custom ship design and revampt space combat and you've got the basic idea of what i'm fully going for. As for dmnb v1, its not soly just the activities that made me wanna take it down, its the fact that it was notoriously unstable and unlike the lag, no matter what I tried to plug the crashes with they just kept coming. Eventually it got to the point where I had to rewrite because not only were the crashes making the game unbaribly annoying to play, they were starting to make players lose data. Though much of that can be attributed to 2 factors. 1, The game was my first serious attempt at an online game in audio, and 2, because I had just kept adding feature on feature with out being able to get some serious bug work done on the code, partly because of me not speaking up enough that it was time to stop with suggestions.

hi SLJ
there are two kind of people in this world.
one who knows their abilities and their skills and according it they work.
whether it is a game development or some other.
2nd type of people are those who just know that they are meant for that but they did some other things
and then return and said that the thing they decided is not good and pointless and again return and then wants to confident you that they will do a massive hit.
My question is that
How do you adjust your believe if this is a situation?
Thanks
Ishan

I agree with post 14 on that one: Although there were server crashes, there are ways around that. If the code was given out to somebody else or even offered up on the forum the game would still be up and someone would have hosted a server for it.

Besides, even if I had fortune's frontier or dmnb v1 or v2, even if I had any of their sources after be it in deleted archives or some place I hadn't purged them in the past, your out of luck now. My old windows vista computer that I coded dmnb v1 and v2 on is in storage and is not getting plugged in unless its getting a wipe, and fortune's frontier's deleted archives completely expired when the computer I was using had a hard disk failure, I was lucky enough to be able to even salvage the fortune's frontier sounds never mined the code. And yes. I know i've made mistakes in the past. I'm not asking you to forgive me for them. I understand that because of the dmnb and ff projects i've lost supporters, which was bound to happen eventually. I'm posting this because i'm getting rather worryed about how people seem to be about this dmnb biznis, which effects future developments. I'll reitterate what people have said to me a countless number of times. Dmnb was a game. A product produced for the entertainment of people and at the time when I started development, because I wanted to produce it and see what it would be like for space in audio. This is no different to when a band produces an albom. Yes, they announce alboms, and projects get canceled all the time. Let me draw comparisons to 2 of my most favorite bands, pink floyd and the eagles to try to explain this one more time. Both bands have been critically aclaimed for their alboms. Both bands no longer work on alboms together. The members may do solo projects, but no more alboms together. Hents, it doesn't sound the same. I want to ask you something here. Say you listen to these bands and you love their alboms and your a hard core fan. But would you go up to, say, don henly of the eagles or roger waters of pink floyd and call them out for deciding to do something else with their lives? If the answer is no, then why do you continue to do this exact thing towards me. I'm a human being just like those people, and while i'm not saying show me some admiral respect, i'm saying show me enough respect to understand that dmnb is dead and gone. I know everyone goes through their aubsessive phases in life at one point or another and yes, it can hert when those aubsessions are taken away. It also can be tremendisly disappointing when something you were looking forward to gets canceled. I know the feeling. But, and consider this a life long lesson, somethings are just not ment to be. Not everything goes your way regardless on how menny times you pray to god or wish for it to. Nothing is free in life with out a catch. And in some cases, regardless of what others think, the catch becomes too costly for the project, and sometimes in life you have to be selfish or burn to the ground. Yes, I understand you guys on how sad you are about dmnb, and sometimes I miss the game myself. And yes, I understand your disappointment on me not releasing fortune's frontier, I was just as hyped as you were which is why I made those release announcements and twitter updates. In the end however, life had other plans and things changed. This happens in life all the time. Consider this also a lesson. If you really miss dmnb and are that upset  about it, then maybe its time to do what I did and reconsider your lifes choices. If your upset because it didn't stay around long enough and you wern't on long enough as you would have liked, i'm sorry to say that I can't change your time table and modify it so you can play when you like. If your upset because you wern't on dmnb that long or got band or something else, maybe its time to consider how you did rong, and adapt it for future games or other things you decide to do, after all for me dmnb was a big lesson on what not to do when managing online games, and fortune's frontier was a lesson on how things don't always go according to plan no matter how hard you work. Now, why did I develop and why did I return to development? Because I enjoy video games. Not neerly as much as I used to but I still enjoy them. And I still to a sirten extent enjoy developing my own creations. That doesn't mean I always will in the future, but for now, I do enjoy them. Now i'm sure the question you ask is, why do you put them up for people to play. Because I enjoy shairing my work. Not because i'm developing for you, but because I enjoy, in the right circumstances what I do. I would like to return to game development, and I don't mined that I lost supporters on dmnb and ff, it was going to happen eventually as it does with everyone. But not if its going to result in what feels like fanatical devotion to any of my projects that'll cause what dmnb caused. At least, not in public, not on the forums or wherever I may appear, be it other online games or what have you. I'm asking, not for the sake of me trying to cover up a mistake or 2, i'm asking for your own bennifit, please, move on from dmnb and ff. You can continue if you feel the right to scorn me about the 2 releases in private, but for the sake of this forum, which has already in dured too much dromma from my work, just let dmnb go and lets talk about something else for once.

Hi.
Personally myself I'd like the offline deathmatch alpha series to continue if only because I was looking forward  to that and its continuation.
The revamped red warp, etc etc.
I also wanted to know how it began,  and how it eventually ended.
If it doesn't happen then well ok still I'd be happy to buy an entire series.

Greetings all. You asked me to keep you up to date, so here it is. A few weaks ago I released an online engine for people to code their own online games off of, and I myself have been using that engine to produce something loads better than ff and dmnb combined. First and formost, as i've mentioned in my previous posts, full rotational/360 degree movement is now a proper thing. Dmnb used a primitive, clunky 2d interface that made it difficult to get around starships and space stations never mined planets, while ff in its last days utalized a very primitive rotation system that only allowed for snap turning. This rotation system is much like the one in mainstreem games, making navigation much more quick and enjoyable. However, that's not all. Lets go back to the cheaf complaint about both dmnb and ff. Both were far too set in space. To explain better, in dmnb you ordered a spaceship and your sol objective was to complete objectives in space. Objectives like asteroid mining, etc. Little thought was given to planet exploration or ground combat, but not anymore. In fact, ground activities and space have both received a major boost, starting with my most favorite change, ground vehicles. This isn't the cheap gimic you had in dmnb where you'd bord basicly a minny starship pretending to be a ground vehicle. This time, I made sure to give you that mainstreem feel. A ground vehicle if you find one you will enter using the E key and drive it around in full 360 degrees, utalizing S and W to adjust speed. But that's not all. Thought the manual piloting system for starships in the original ff was cool or not? Well that don't matter now. The ground vehicle system can not only work on the ground, but it works in space. Yes, pause for a split second... this means, full, at last starship piloting. And to add to all of that, the vehicle system can be tied into any craft. So yes. This means, you want aircrafts? I can do em. You want see going ships, I can do em. And in fact? Lets get another thing. Don't have a ground vehicle? Its no problem with inventory because if you have one, you can utalize a skateboard to get around the area your on. Speaking of inventory, it works like stw's, however with 1 or 2 changes. When you equip an item in any hand, you can't switch that item to a new hand, and the game will tell you this if you don't have another item of that type in your inventory. To put stuff away you simply go to the hand its in and press backspace. With that, a new weapons system got implemented. These weapons require ammo clips, and here's the most impressive part of the system. When you reload, reloading is like in stw, accept, that unless you empty the hole clip into your gun the clip will stay in your hand, perfect for that quick reload. And the gun only emptys how much ammo it needs from said clip instead of emptying the hole thing. As for areas, they are now all server side, which means the only thing you need to worry about is sounds. Areas are also no longer tied to specific ships, which means proper buildings on planets just like you all wanted can now be done. And with a minamum amount of effert too, since you no longer need to go through the process of downloading a map file. But wait, one last thing. Anyone remember those ol crashes on dmnb? You know, the ones that would cause 30 minute downtimes and such? No longer a problem. I'm very happy to say that if a crash happens to a player, the player will be notified, and they can continue playing as normal as if nothing had happened. Everyone else will notice nothing unless the player mentions the crash to them. Oh, one last thing I almost forgot. Items can now be properly picked up on planets surfaces. They will play a sound, and all one needs do is approach and press e to pick it up. However be aware that others can steal your loot as well. Anyways, that's all for now. Development on the project is still going extremely slow, however I intend to keep working on it as time permits, I won't make any prommiss's however until i'm sure i've gotten my offline life's problems out of the way. With that in mined I hope that was enough to give you something to look forward too.

Greetings all, so a few more updates to report. Asides from what i've reported last time, the game is now split into 2 modes for online play. Universe mode and death match mode, both modes use my online engine which cuts down development time majorly. So what are these modes you ask? Universe is the ol online stuff your all used to, but with a twist, because i've started custom coding online missions. The first mission has you crash landing a shuttle onto a planet and gathering extra gear to survive until you can escape the planet, i've already started coding on it. Death match mode is a free for all fps stile game in the spirit of games like halo and quake, where you can join a server in a list or create your own, the impressive thing is because they use the same codebase I can port my ground vehicle code over and give you that reel mainstreem fps experience with ground vehicles and all that included, along with differing maps. Asides from that, galactic network terminals again make a return, but unlike the last few times I had them implemented, they have the option to buy or sell stuff, so far buying is implemented. And since my knolige of programming is a lot better than it was last time, I can sell anything at these terminals ranging from weapons to ammo clips, and even though the terminals are online I can not only stop that menu not showing up properly glitch but I can also show the prices along side the items. Skateboards also got an upgrade for navigating around ground locations. Basicly once you get on the bord, like in reality skateboarding left and right kick the bord into action and get it up to speed, you must maintain this kick. While your roling space can jump, else it lets you off and on the bord. As for cross platform support, its still their. I've tested it with linux under a vm again, and this time the games options menu even lets you select a different output module for speech dispatcher. Since i'm no longer using bass, mac O S support is a grater possibility this time, all i've gotta do in therey is just configure the code to run using sfml for everything, as aposed to a mixture of libaudioverse and sfml, everything else is again natively compatible. At the moment i'm not actively seeking testers since i'd still like to try and add some more things, but assuming nothing screws up this time you might have something better than dmnb out, and with an actual storyline for online as so menny people have requested. I'm also looking into changing up the old reality software site since it needs a bit of redoing.